Sublime

Judaism’s values.

The Four Questions

monotheistic religious pluralism,

last politics was promising to deliver what centuries of prayer had not: civil rights, social equality, a place in the mainstream of European culture.

In my vision of the future of American Jewish life, the real test of whether a minyan is welcoming is not whether you get offered an aliyah or whether someone hands you a siddur on your way in. It will be defined by the ease in which you are drawn into each other’s homes to share a meal together on Shabbat.

Praise of Tohu va-Vohu,” the psychologist and scholar Miriam Faust

People want deep meaning and connection, but they move through life thinking of Judaism’s contribution to the world as Seinfeld and guilt.

A source on marriage, for instance, does not necessarily appear in the tractate that nominally treats that subject because life is a tapestry of interwoven strands, and ideas are not constrained by disciplinary boundaries.

liberal Judaism to seek