Shmuley Boteach
ARTICLES BY: Shmuley Boteach
Did I Make Cory Booker ‘Too Jewish’?
Recently, Jeffrey Goldberg, a journalist I know and respect, repeated, in the New York Post, Peter Beinart's attack against me from a few weeks ago, that in...
Should Morality Come at the End of a Government Camera?
In September 2009, Colonel Muamar Kaddafi of Libya wanted to move into the home next to mine. He owned a beautiful estate, ostensibly for the...
Peter Beinart’s Attack on Me and Cory Booker
Last week Peter Beinart wrote a column on The Daily Beast called "Cory Booker's Rabbis" which surmised that my 20 year friendship with the...
The Raging Battle Over Samantha Power
This past week I endured phenomenal criticism from close colleagues who are amazed that I have vouched for my friend Samantha Power as United States...
The Sinful Marriage
Marriage and long-term relationships are on the decline throughout the world as is marital sex, which has been reduced, in the United States, to about...
The Character of LA’s First Jewish Mayor, Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti has just been elected one of Los Angeles' youngest mayors ever. Eric was a Rhodes scholar in Oxford from about 1993 to 1995....
Was the Holocaust Punishment for Sin?
For so many people religion is practiced out of a sense superstition. Like a furry rabbit's foot, it wards off evil spirits. Fulfilling...
Stephen Hawking Rejects the Zionism of Einstein
Has Stephen Hawking really left the company of Albert Einstein, an avowed Zionist who worked to create the State of Israel, and replaced him with...
Reversing the Corrosive Message of Commencements
Twenty three years ago a young Mormon Doctoral student came to our Friday night Sabbath dinner at Oxford with a Jewish friend. Though I had...
One Strike and You’re Out?
The news over the last few weeks of the sockpuppet scandal of Rabbi Michael Broyde is disturbing, but not for the reasons you might imagine....
And Hate the Sinner Too
Let me surprise you for a moment. The reason that tragedies, like the outrageous terrorist bombing in Boston this week, continue to take place is...
Adelson: From Caricature to Life
In the interests of full disclosure, let me first offer that Sheldon Adelson and members of his family donated to my campaign for Congress when...
The Sexualization of Our Teens is Becoming Endemic
It speaks volumes about a culture when a President, whom by all accounts is personally honorable, is forced to apologize to an attorney general for...
Obama’s Failure to Press Erdogan to Apologize for the Armenian Genocide
President Barack Obama's first trip to Israel since he became president had the potential to yield many tangible results, not the least of which could...
