Sublime

The options are these: become an academic, a rabbi, or Orthodox.

Bias: To believe in G-d’s ultimate goodness, to know that blessings await us beneath the surface of our experience, no matter how bleak, to actively seek those blessings out, and to spread their light to the world beyond.

Empowered Judaism is a manifesto for transforming the way Jews pray and—more broadly—for building vibrant Jewish communities.

The sum of the Rabbis’ educational and halachic efforts was that participation in religious life was democratized.

In our vision of a yeshiva, the students—adult men and women—would learn how to learn Jewish texts.

through which he is best known to tradition: Moshe Rabbenu, the leader as teacher. Leadership is not a gift with which we are endowed at birth. It is something we acquire in the course of time, often after many setbacks, failures, and disappointments.

exclusionary and illiberal beliefs. One rarely hears of South Asian students barred from their campus environmental or LGBTQ group because they sympathize with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s virulently anti-Muslim brand of Hindu nationalism. Treating Zionist students as pariahs is both unfair and counterproductive. The best way to convince Jewish s