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Prop 12: A sliver of freedom for factory-farmed animals
Featured Contributor Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz says California citizens must vote Yes on Proposition 12 to reduce animal suffering. In my career as an animal welfare…
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Grabbing a Cheeseburger: Enlightened Kashrut
An enlightened approach to Jewish education begins by teaching not from the standpoint of religion In my last article, we set basic educational guidelines for how…
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Educating Israel: The True Return of Our People by Rabbi Michael Shevack
In this, the final article on my series “Re-JEW-venating the Jew”, I would like to propose something very bold. Actually, it is not very bold. It…
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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 about a new Jewish Enlightenment. In my last…
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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 going to re-JEW-venate the contemporary Jew. For all…
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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 began innocently enough. There was some kind of…
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The Origin And Cure Of Anti-Semitism in Europe
The Path Toward Peace Lies In Forgiveness Numerous recent news reports show that Europe is experiencing a resurgence in anti-Semitism. A Syrian-Palestinian refugee in Germany beat…
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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 I follow? For those Jews who believe as…
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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 fired up our Western (Christian-derived) civilization suddenly turned…
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This Jewish Synagogue became a safe haven to people of any faith
Featured Contributor Georgia Gleoudi tours the one and only synagogue on the isle of Crete, the historic Havurah of Chania. I entered the courtyard. Christoph, the…
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Infinite Progressivism by Rabbi Michael Shevack
Rabbi Michael Shevack‘s final article in his Re-JEW-venating Civilization series. In my last article, Creeping Finitism, I warned about the contemporary idolatries that are destroying a…
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Creeping Finitism by Rabbi Michael Shevack
Rabbi Michael Shevack says either we learn one ancient Hebrew lesson or Western Civilization runs the risk of imploding on itself. In this, Article #4 on…