Why evil committed in the name of God is worse
Dennis Prager
March 19, 2014
If I could ask one question of a religious person — of any faith — it would be, “What is the worst sin in your religion?”
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Q&A with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Jared Sichel
February 26, 2014
Jewish Journal: What are you able to do differently now that you are no longer Chief Rabbi?
Conference explores potential for day schools
Ryan Torok
January 23, 2014
Last weekend’s Ravsak/Pardes Jewish Day School Leadership Conference, “Moving the Needle: Galvanizing Change in Our Day Schools,” focused on ways to transform day schools at a time when external factors such as the economy and demography have negatively affected enrollment.
Are Jewish neighborhoods a good thing?
Dennis Prager
December 18, 2013
I would like to offer a view on Jewish neighborhoods that is so contrary to accepted wisdom that I can only ask that people read this column with as open a mind as possible.
Ruling returns kosher meals to Florida inmates
Jewish Journal
December 17, 2013
A federal judge ordered the Florida prisons service to provide kosher meals to all prisoners with a “sincere religious basis.”
Agunah crowd shouldn’t target families
Jewish Journal
December 16, 2013
The preeminent sacred cow to many Jews is compassion for agunot (“chained” women whose husbands withhold a Jewish bill of divorce, or “Get”). But enough already: the Internet crowd attacking Avrohom Meir Weiss in his divorce from Gital Dodelson is becoming as heartless and halachically problematic as Weiss himself.
Netanyahu-pope meeting at Vatican explores Middle East, papal trip to Israel
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2013
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Pope Francis in their first face-to-face meeting talked about the Middle East and plans for a papal trip to Israel, among other issues.
Blind Spot: Parashat Vayeshev (Genesis 37:1-40:23)
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2013
“Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts; the entire earth is filled with his glory” (Isaiah 6:30). If Isaiah is correct, with every step we take, with every breath we draw, we cannot help but encounter God’s glory. And yet who among us is constantly aware of this fact, this daily miracle?
George W. Bush and Jews for Jesus
Dennis Prager
November 20, 2013
Former President George W. Bush spoke for the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute (MJBI) this past week, and this has led to a good deal of writing on Jews for Jesus and the ex-president’s address.
On Israeli religious reforms, Naftali Bennett still figuring out road map
Jewish Journal
November 19, 2013
Naftali Bennett doesn’t like to waste time. In the eight months since he took over three Israeli ministries — religious services, economy, and Diaspora and Jerusalem affairs — Bennett has pushed through legislation to give Israeli couples more freedom in choosing which rabbi officiates at their wedding, worked with coalition partner Yair Lapid to lop $11 billion off Israel’s budget and fast-tracked a resolution to the showdown over women’s prayer at the Western Wall.
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