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Eighty Years Later They’re Still Scared of Anne Frank
Eighty years after her death, a teenage girl still strikes terror into the hearts of bigots, haters and the fools who follow them. In July, in…
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Death Sentence of Pittsburgh Shooter Met with Relief, Prayers and a Wish for Closure
Nearly five years after the deadliest antisemitic attack in the nation’s history, the individual found guilty has been sentenced to death. For the survivors, their friends,…
Christianity
Religious Arbitration: How America’s Courts Safeguard the First Amendment by Defending It
Religious arbitration has been in the news recently and I would like to offer my perspective as a Jew, a rabbi and inter-religious leader who cherishes…
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Profiles in Faith: Rabbi David Nathan Saperstein
Introduction Rabbi David Nathan Saperstein is one of the leading lights of Reform Judaism — the largest denomination of Jews in the America, representing 33 percent…
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Religious News From Around the Web August 9, 2021
Scientologist Wins Case Against Munich “Sect Filter;” Religious Restrictions Return with Rise of Delta Variant; Vatican Launches Global Compact on the Family; Problems With Biden’s Religious…
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Profiles in Faith: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (1948 – 2020)
Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth Introduction “What do we worship?” The question, as Rabbi Lord Jonathan Henry Sacks put it in…
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Religious Overreaches Could Backfire by Charles Franklin
It’s an old story: A business like Enron or Pfizer goes flat out for profit, ethics and the law be damned and boom! Enron is disemboweled…
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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 state? France, a separate state? So, what is…
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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 in the Torah, and we presented an enlightened…
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Who are God’s Chosen People? An Interview with Michael Coogan
Does God have a chosen people, and does he favor certain societies? Distinguished biblical scholar Michael Coogan considers these questions in his provocative new book, God’s…
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An Interview with Rabbi Ariel Burger, Author of ‘Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom’
“Listening to a witness makes you a witness.” – Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) was an internationally-recognized writer, educator, and human rights activist. He was awarded…
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How American Jewish Women Shaped American Culture: An Interview with Pamela S. Nadell
How American Jewish Women have left a legacy that reverberates across American history. For more than three and a half centuries, Jewish women have paved a…