What if I’m wrong?
It’s so comfortable to be right that we rarely ask ourselves whether we’re wrong.
It’s so comfortable to be right that we rarely ask ourselves whether we’re wrong.
Reading Torah at face value is fraught with danger and difficulty.
The 26th Jewish Educator Awards luncheon Dec. 15 singled out the four winners of the annual initiative of the Milken Family Foundation, which gives $15,000 to outstanding educators from day schools affiliated with Builders of Jewish Education (BJE).
In Dennis Prager\’s response to the letters to the editor, he welcomed dialogue, and described the letters as \”hateful.\”
Just when the LGBT community thinks it has taken another step toward full equality and inclusion, along come the Dennis Pragers of the world to remind us how far we still have to go.
We rarely agree with Dennis Prager and certainly found his column unnecessary and hurtful (“The Torah and the Transgendered,” Dec. 2). That said, we also disagree with those who feel that the Jewish Journal should not have printed Prager’s article.
The deluge of letters vilifying Dennis Prager for his Jewish Journal column, “The Torah and the Transgendered,” is yet another manifestation of too many Jews’ inability to amicably, or merely intellectually discuss important, serious issues without dismissiveness and ridicule.
What Dennis Prager says in his most recent column is right – liberal Jews, rabbis and laypeople, responded to his piece about the Torah status of transgender Jews with a lot of passion and rhetoric, but without answering his claim.
In response to my latest column, “The Torah and the Transgendered,” the Jewish Journal was deluged with emails to the editor and comments on the Journal’s website.
When earlier last month Mr. Prager assailed against non-orthodox Judaism as not going deep enough with Torah, I championed his cause.