Shmuley Boteach
ARTICLES BY: Shmuley Boteach
Why Cory Booker’s Message of Social Civility Resonates
For a moment, let me remove my hat as a Republican candidate for public office and speak only wearing my yarmulke, as a Rabbi who...
The Lockerbie Bombing Hall of Shame
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, is finally roasting in hell after dying peacefully in his bed in Libya, surrounded by family and friends, rather than...
Questions About TIME Magazine’s Parenting Cover Story
Time magazine's cover story about attachment parenting has garnered a great deal of attention. Clearly, the shock value of showing an attractive young mother breast-feeding...
What if Government Recognized Only Civil Unions and Left Marriage to Religion?
Could a governmental retreat from "marriage" finally heal the deep schism that has divided and immobilized this country by an intractable values volley over gay...
The Revolting Lie that Michael Jackson was a Nazi Sympathizer
All a man has in this world is his good name. The book of Ecclesiastes says that a good name is better than fine oil....
President Obama Does a Bin Laden End Zone Dance
What a difference one year makes. Last year I praised President Obama for not wanting to 'spike the football' by releasing gruesome death photos of...
Dan Savage Savages the Bible Over Homosexuality
I am saddened that Richard Grennell, Mitt Romney's foreign policy spokesman, resigned over what the press is saying was pressure from the far right because...
A Warrior-Scholar Falls in Israel: The Death of Benzion Netanyahu
I had already twice hosted Benjamin Netanyahu - at the time Israel's deputy Foreign Minister - at the University of Oxford before I extended my...
Why Does G-d Allow Children to be Born with Mental Disability?
Arriving in LA to serve as scholar-in-residence this past weekend, I picked up the handsome brochure put out by Chabad.org on the weekly Torah reading....
Public Asks for Political Inspiration, but Responds to Negative Attacks
There are two people running against me in the Republican primary for New Jersey's Ninth district and recently I had an interesting lesson in politics...
As Millions Starve in North Korea, the West Make Jokes About Their Missiles
Last week I held a press conference at The Korean-American Voter's Council in New Jersey. I shared with them my strong feelings of affinity with...
In Norway You can Murder 77 People and Still Enjoy Retirement
When I lived in England I got used to my British friends regularly taking digs at how primitive America is compared to enlightened Europe. To...
Would Hilary Rosen Have Criticized Stay-at-Home Dads as Never Having Worked?
It's good that Hilary Rosen apologized for her comments that Ann Romney, who chose to be a stay-at-home mom to raise her five boys, had...
A Conversation With Trayvon Martin’s Mother
My dear friend Kathryn Milofsky arranged for me to speak with Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, and her attorney Benjamin Crump, today just before Passover....
