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February 2016

February 09, 2016

Liberal Jews Get a Piece of the Rock

If you follow news of the Jewish world, by now you have heard about the...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Israeli Extremists Respond to Paris Massacre

Haaretz writer Uri Misgav has published a powerful blog post about right-wing nationalist Orthodox Jewish...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

Does Torah Command Immediate Execution of Disarmed Terrorists?

To my liberal rabbinical colleagues who hold the view that the Torah’s wisdom is necessary...

August 2015

August 05, 2015

Murderous Jewish Religious Fanaticism, Part Two

View image | gettyimages.comBefore I take a short vacation hiatus from the blog and my...

August 04, 2015

Murderous Jewish Religious Fanaticism, Part One

View image | gettyimages.com Last week was a horrible one in Israel. Contained within the...

July 2015

July 13, 2015

Wear Long Skirts! Cover Your Elbows! You Can Save Israel and Get Ice Cream, Too!

There is nothing in traditional Judaism that demonstrates its sexism better than the rules of...

July 08, 2015

Who Is a Jew and Who Is a Rabbi?

The newly-appointed Israeli Minister of Religious Services, David Azulai, has said something stupid. This puts...

July 05, 2015

The Holy Kabbalist and the Dead Cop

Last night the head of the National Fraud Unit of the Israeli Police, Deputy Commissioner...

June 2015

June 28, 2015

Jewish Reaction to Gay Marriage Decision

So how has the Jewish community responded to the marriage equality decision? My own Facebook...

June 24, 2015

Sex Tourism, Hasidic Style

Today’s post falls under the category of religious morality. The Israeli news site Mako has...

June 16, 2015

Compassionate Jewish Law: When a Dead Baby Is Returned to Parents in a Cardboard Box

Early in my career, while serving as director and rabbi at a Hillel Jewish student...

May 2015

May 22, 2015

Leaving Hasidism

In the genre of “de-conversion” books, there is a Jewish sub-category of “OTD” memoirs. “OTD”...

May 21, 2015

Israeli Foreign Policy…Medieval Version

Repeat after me, “The Bible is not a real estate guide.” Obviously, Israel’s brand-new Deputy...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

A New Day In Israeli Politics?

I am a political junkie. My drug is not domestic, as I prefer to feed...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

The Atheist Rabbi And The Orthodox Women’s Seminary

As I mentioned in a previous post, I returned last Sunday from a two-week stay...

February 12, 2013

Crime Wave At The Western Wall

I just returned from Jerusalem to news about the latest round of arrests of Jewish...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

More Drivel From The Great Rav Ovadiah

Rav Ovadiah Yosef, spiritual leader of world Sephardic Jewry, just attacked one of the major...

May 2012

May 23, 2012

Blogosphere Heats Up Over Haredi Internet Rally

The non-Jewish press has taken a great interest in the Haredi internet sobfest held on...

May 23, 2012

Israeli Reform & Conservative Jews Have The Wrong Idea

One of Israel’s biggest problems is its reliance on Orthodox rabbis in matters of Jewish...

May 22, 2012

Praying Away The Internet

Sunday night 40,000 Haredi men (just men) gathered at New York’s CitiField. They did not...

March 2012

March 19, 2012

Orthodox Versus Unorthodox

Not too long ago, the publishers of Deborah Feldman’s book, Unorthodox, were kind enough to...

March 13, 2012

What’s Sauce For The Goose…

A few weeks back an organization called the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools...

February 2012

February 18, 2012

Homosexual: Repress Yourself!

If conservative Orthodox Jews and other religious extremists would just practice their religious prejudices among...

February 02, 2012

The Plight Of Orthodox Gays

I can think of no worse situation for a gay person than to belong to...

January 2012

January 30, 2012

That’s An Awful Lot Of Lettuce For That Lettuce

The last time I wrote about some of what I considered to be the, how...

January 27, 2012

Leviticus 30:1: Verily Shalt Thou Shun The Internet

Israeli Sephardic leader Rav Ovadia Yosef, patron of the Shas Party, has joined with others,...

January 16, 2012

Why “Atheist Rabbi”?

In the wake of the attack on my blog, I thought it might be a...

January 14, 2012

My Open Letter To Jacob Stein, “The Jewish Philosopher”

SCREEN SHOT FROM JACOB STEIN'S CALL FOR EXECUTION OF GAYS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few days ago...

January 13, 2012

Reasonable Religion

Am I anti-religious? Many atheists are proudly so. They see all religion as dangerous and...

January 11, 2012

Troll Attack

This morning I received an e-mail from someone named Jacob Stein who calls himself the...