Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the founder of The World Values Network. He is also what The Washington Post calls “the most famous Rabbi in America” who served as Rabbi to Oxford University for 11 years. The international best-selling author of 30 books, he is also the winner of the London Times Preacher of the Year competition. His latest book is “Lust for Love,” co-authored with Pamela Anderson. He is on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
As Sheldon was a dear friend whom I mourn and miss, and as I have written much about him since his passing, I wanted to pen this particular column as a stream-of-consciousness exercise that focuses on his absence.
If you’re in the Jewish community and you want to question Dr. Oz as a friend of Israel, know your facts first.
Although he left Iran in his late teens and, through the miracle of aliyah, moved to Israel with his many siblings, Iran never left him. It was a deep part of his culture, his tastes, his identity.
These are the ten most important things that I’ve gleaned as I cross into the middle of my fifth decade.
It’s time for the American Jewish community, at every level of observance, to focus on getting Jewish singles married
Apparently, they had staged an illegal prayer service for the Jewish new year and the police had come to administer a $5000 fine per person. It must have seemed funny to witness the men in dark attire, sidecurls flying, with the accompanying “Mission Impossible” theme song that was added by a viewer for good effect.
Throughout the day we heard that an attack was coming. American intelligence was warning it. British intelligence was warning it. So what was President Biden doing leading our soldiers like lambs to the slaughter?
If we make Judaism, the Jewish people and Israel a light unto the nations, then many in the world who are currently indifferent to our plight will rise to our defense, and not because they pity us because of the Holocaust.
There is something wrong with soulless competition, which says that without a gold medal one is little more than the Tin Man from the “Wizard of Oz,” lacking heart and comprised of worthless metal.
You would think that the choice here between good and evil would be stark and direct and the world would stand with Israel. But precisely the opposite has occurred.
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