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Halakhah as a system is how the Torah continues to integrate contemporary perspectives, converses with science, and heeds the voice of conscience.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
If ancient Greece spoke about the virtue of democracy, Judaism speaks about the democracy of virtue – the good that is real because it is done by people like us.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
If a reflective life is meant to be more than just affirming our existing beliefs, then Torah provides the opportunity to engage with life more fully.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
it is a mitzvah for family love to flow outward.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Future Tense: The New Antisemitism
What is it & how do we deal with it?
1 November 2007
Yossi Klein Halevi • The Blogs | The Marketplace of Ideas
Sincere, thoughtful caring-about is crucial but its main contribution, Noddings writes, is in “suggest[ing] ways to extend caring-for to many more recipients.”15 In the same vein, I think, the laws of tzedakah enshrine the primacy of caring-for.16
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
What an amazing heritage that recounts the tale of a tzaddik, one of the righteous, who thinks that rocking a baby to sleep is more important than leading services!
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
a Judaism that trusts in the power of communal prayer and refuses to settle for mediocre attempts at connecting to God.