Religious Arbitration: How America’s Courts Safeguard the First Amendment…

Religious arbitration has been in the news recently and I would like to offer my perspective as a Read More

Rabbi Michael Shevack - Israel

Law for Peace: Beyond Palestinian and Israeli Land Claims

The idea hit me as I was driving, through the border from Germany to France: Germany, a separate Read More

To Cut? Or Not to Cut?: Enlightened Circumcision

To Cut? Or Not to Cut?: Enlightened Circumcision

Sanctifying and living the meaning of circumcision In our last article we discussed kosher, as it is taught Read More

Grabbing a Cheeseburger: Enlightened Kashrut

Grabbing a Cheeseburger: Enlightened Kashrut

An enlightened approach to Jewish education begins by teaching not from the standpoint of religion In my last Read More

Rabbi Michael Shevack - Israel

Educating Israel: The True Return of Our People by…

In this, the final article on my series “Re-JEW-venating the Jew”, I would like to propose something very Read More

Enlightened Judaism: A Spiritual Algorithm by Rabbi Michael Shevack

Enlightened Judaism: A Spiritual Algorithm by Rabbi Michael Shevack

The spiritual insights that will merge out of this algorithm can be systematically taught and cultured to bring Read More

Re-JEW-venating the JEW: Bad Theo-LOGIC by Rabbi Michael Shevack

Re-JEW-venating the JEW: Bad Theo-LOGIC by Rabbi Michael Shevack

It’s time to finish up our discussion of those core theo-logical confusions that must be corrected if we’re Read More

Reason vs. Revelation by Rabbi Michael Shevack

Reason vs. Revelation by Rabbi Michael Shevack

For one thousand years, Jews, if not many religious people, have been stuck in intellectual chaos. The chaos Read More

Rabbi Michael Shevack

Re-JEW-venating the Jew: Formulas for Authority

The authoritative limits of "democracy" under Transcendent Reason have been pushed to the breaking point: Whose Reason should Read More

Rabbi Michael Shevack Outing The Jew

OUTING the Jew by Rabbi Michael Shevack

The first article in Rabbi Michael Shevack's new series, Re-JEW-venating the JEW. Imagine, if the evangelical impulse that Read More