From the news media: President Donald Trump signaled disappointment that the Senate failed to pass an Obamacare repeal, after hours of failed Republican attempts to keep their promise to the American people. ————- President Trump may be disappointed but he surely understands why five Republican Senators voted against him. As the latest US elections haveContinue reading “Regrettably, many Republican Senators are Swamp fellows”
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We are fighting the anti-Semitism the wrong way
I am working on a book (“In intellectual search for spiritual Torah-based union between Jews and Christians”) and I am discussing various ideas I am exploring in the book with my friends and colleagues. Many my friends and colleagues have expressed their uneasiness with one of the ideas of the book that we can fightContinue reading “We are fighting the anti-Semitism the wrong way”
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That is not the Western Wall crisis – that is a crisis of Jewish identity
From the news media: Instead of the promised visible and permanent pluralistic prayer pavilion under their control at Jerusalem’s Western Wall — passed as a government decision in January 2016 — non-Orthodox Jewry is again to be shunted to second-class prayer status on a slim platform in the corner of an archaeological park creating aContinue reading “That is not the Western Wall crisis – that is a crisis of Jewish identity”
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Jews are changing by “God’s design”, not disappearing as some rabbis proclaim
Your assessment of the future of American and Israeli Jewry depends on how you define the Jewish identity. If you define it, as traditional rabbis are doing, by being born to a sort of halakhic Jewish family, the future is bleak. Indeed, the Jewish majority in America and Israel is increasingly being born to non-halakhicContinue reading “Jews are changing by “God’s design”, not disappearing as some rabbis proclaim”
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We cannot defeat terrorism if we disconnect ideology from religion
From the news media: UK Prime-Minister Theresa May says that the recent [terrorist] attacks are connected in one important sense. They are bound together by the single, evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows division, and promotes sectarianism. It is an ideology that claims our Western values of freedom, democracy and human rightsContinue reading “We cannot defeat terrorism if we disconnect ideology from religion”
