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December 2011

December 22, 2011

Hitchens, Wolpe And The Dear Leader

I miss Christopher Hitchens. Rabbi David Wolpe, in his really lousy book, Why Faith Matters,...

October 2011

October 11, 2011

A Resource Guide To The “Intactivist” (No Circumcision) Movement

I have received so many e-mails in response to my recent post about circumcision. This...

October 04, 2011

Eliminating The Cruelest Cut

I was very pleased to be contacted recently by Dr. Mark Reiss, who maintains the...

October 04, 2011

Angels Among Us

Once upon a time, in the nineteenth century when Reform Judaism was on the road...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

Blessed Art Thou, Mr. Deity

I am a long-time fan of the Mr. Deity YouTube series. If you aren’t familiar...

September 15, 2011

Warning! This Religion Will Require A God Upgrade!

Here’s a book review I’ve been working on. The post is a little longer than...

March 2011

March 14, 2011

Angry, Angry Atheists

I don’t care if it is on HuffPost, I’m not going to ignore the latest...

February 2011

February 25, 2011

Jesus And Mo And Rabbi Yoffie

In my response to Eric Yoffie’s HuffPost piece, which was just chock-full of silliness, I...

February 24, 2011

Looking For God In All The Wrong Places

One of the truest statements in the Hebrew Bible is in Ecclesiastes, “There is nothing...

February 23, 2011

Reply To Aish Rabbi’s “Open Letter To The Atheist Community”

Between busy-ness at work, some ill health and time with family, I have not been...

February 16, 2011

Secular Israeli Ordination Gets Some Media Play

I just saw this article about the ordination of the latest secular humanistic rabbis in...

February 16, 2011

Good Pointers For Advancing The Non-Theistic Message

I’m not the type to give tips to my fellow non-theists and secular humanists. We...

February 15, 2011

Not Quite Wrestling With God

Last night I participated in a program for a local Reform temple’s youth group called...

January 2011

January 12, 2011

Sam Harris vs. Rabbi David Wolpe

Yesterday I listened to a debate between Sam Harris and Rabbi David Wolpe. It’s not...

January 12, 2011

Can Reform Judaism Be Made More Relevant?

In last week’s Forward, Rabbi Evan Moffic offered some thoughts about how to make Reform...

January 10, 2011

Israel High Court Ambiguous On Bus Line Gender Segregation

For four years the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC), which is basically the Israeli Reform...

January 10, 2011

Debbie Friedman, Z”L

Debbie Friedman provided the Jewish soundtrack of most of my life. She wrote hundreds of...

January 06, 2011

Relax, There Are Plenty Of American Jews

In 1990, Jewish Federations released the results of the National Jewish Population Survey with its...

December 2010

December 13, 2010

Kabbalistic Woo-Hoo For A Monday Afternoon

Oh HuffPost Religion Page, what would I do without you? On days when I’m feeling...

December 08, 2010

The Western Wall: “A Religious Discotheque”

Had my trip to Israel not been cancelled, there’s one place that I would not...

December 06, 2010

Taking Chanukah Too Seriously

Rabbi Eric Yoffie, chieftain of the Reform movement, has gotten himself in quite the tizzy...

November 2010

November 26, 2010

“Does The Universe Have A Purpose?”

I watched Rabbi David Wolpe debate Christopher Hitchens a while back and even though Hitchens...

November 11, 2010

Meet The Christian Zionists

It’s been a year or two since I last attended a meeting of the local...

October 2010

October 25, 2010

Signing The Keshet Pledge

Well here’s a small quandary. There is an amazing effort that is being produced by...

October 14, 2010

Religious Liberals Defending Religious Creeps

Rabbi Eric Yoffie is president of the Union for Reform Judaism. Today he chimed in...

October 07, 2010

Calling All Atheist Clergy: Come Out Already!

Daniel Dennett is my favorite philosopher. He wrote a piece for the New York Daily...

October 06, 2010

Update On Jersey Jewish Paper’s Same-Sex Announcement

UPDATE: Jewish Daily Report is reporting that the pressure placed on the New Jersey Jewish...

October 06, 2010

Orthodox Homophobia Causes Pain – But For Whom?

When the New Jersey Jewish Standard ran a same-sex wedding announcement, its editors were unprepared...

September 2010

September 28, 2010

It’s Not Me, It Really Is Them

The beginning of the end of my efforts to remain in the theistic fold came...

September 20, 2010

It’s “Everybody Pray For Hitch Day”

I had the privilege of hearing Christopher Hitchens speak last spring about his new autobiography...