Sublime

believe that the purpose of kashrut is to make eating a special experience and to serve as a reminder of a Jew’s ethical conscience as well as of the other unique teachings of Judaism. To me, distinctiveness and not separation is the Jew’s calling.

shifting the operative frame of the American Jewish experience from one of institutional preservation to one of communal empowerment.

the interpretive process they developed, the Rabbis rescued Judaism in one of its darkest moments and ensured its continuation for the next two millennia. Thanks to the Rabbis, Rosen notes, “Jews became the people of the book and not the people of the Temple or the land,” all now bound together by the same foundational interpretive text and

Heidi’s defense of a neutral public culture is simply cosmopolitan tribalism. This tribalism might be dismissed as mildly amusing if not for the fact that Heidi insists that, as a shared neutral space, the public square must reflect her “neutral” views.