Bill Maher, my favorite Irish Catholic Jew after David McGrath Schwartz, has a documentary coming out Oct. 3 titled “Religulous.” It doesn’t look ridiculous to be but, as you can imagine, there is a whole lot of holy hand-wringing going on.
I’m likely going to interview Maher in the next few weeks for The Journal, but, for now, all I have to offer is the above trailer, which resembles a religious bloopers reel.
Investigative journalist and bestselling author Gerald Posner offers a primer to debunk the “genocide” libel against Israel.
Maximizing Jewish life, learning, practice and belonging remains nonnegotiable. However, when a halakhic ruling fails to achieve its purpose, we must reexamine the ruling.
Every morning I convince myself that if I could just find the right system, the right schedule, everything would finally balance.
The minyan included mechanics, replete with the mandatory oil-stained hands and grime beneath their fingernails.
Trump’s administration has been conducting a multi-front war against America’s oldest university, freezing previously approved federal research grants, restricting international student visas, and targeting the school’s tax-exempt status.
MSF’s governing structure has been manipulated by individuals who refashioned MSF into a vehicle for anti-Israel, anti-Western, and often antisemitic propaganda.
SWANA is not a description of a region’s peoples. It is a membership test, and the price of admission is agreement on Jews and Israel.
The Global Conference for Israel will both celebrate the organization’s 125-year milestone and highlight discussions regarding what lies ahead for it, as well as for Israel’s future.
Many political animals behave like animals when it comes to making their opinions known—regardless of party.
This is not a call for endless war. It is a call for realism.
“Her prose disrupted my mind,” I wrote, “confronting me with words I had never seen come together before.”
The philosopher Maimonides explains that if someone asks you for forgiveness, you should be open to their heartfelt apology. But this isn’t always realistic.
The five things we get wrong in Jewish education and what we can all do to improve it.
Notable people and events in the Jewish LA community.
For generations, Moroccan Jewish mothers and grandmothers prepared their dafina on Friday, knowing that it would sustain their families on Saturday.
