Shmuley Boteach
ARTICLES BY: Shmuley Boteach
The Rebellious Man of Faith
The patriarch Jacob, my namesake (Jacob Shmuel) of whom we have read the past few weeks in the Bible, is the most maligned of all...
Unfaithful Husbands Can Still be Faithful Leaders
Can a man who cheats on his wife be trusted with public business? In the recent Iowa Republican debate, Governor Rick Perry of Texas ...
My Conversations with PETA about Jewish Ritual Slaughter
About a year ago a Chabad Rabbi got in touch with me and asked if I would agree to meet a senior Jewish PETA executive...
Steve Jobs and the Next British Chief Rabbi
The criticism by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks of Apple founder Steve Jobs as having created a selfish consumer culture that ultimately magnified ...
How Jacob was Prepared to Risk His Soul in Confronting Esau’s Evil
The ancient Israelite nation was founded and built by many great men of impeccable character, whose devotion to God and righteousness were imbued in every...
Are Mormons Any Weirder than the Rest of Us?
I have been close to Mormons ever since my days at Oxford when Michael Taft Benson, whose grandfather, Ezra Taft Benson, was the...
Why Critics of Wall Street Exist Among Avowed Capitalists
A Wall Street banker friend of mine dismissed Occupy Wall Street as a bunch of socialists with too much time on their hands....
Ashton, Demi and Younger Men’s Inability to Appreciate Older Women
The unfortunate breakup of the marriage between Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher should be of interest even to those who have better things...
Chabad 2.0: The Shluchim Conference Must Focus on a Chabad Quantum Leap
The annual gathering of Chabad's global emissaries, the Kinus Hashluchim, elicits a paradox. Here is an organization that is truly international, operating even more...
Lessons from the Brutal Truth of Steve Jobs
In the early 90's I fell in love with Steve Jobs' new NeXT computer. I had used a Macintosh since I was 19...
Obama’s Secret Remarks About Netanyahu
So French President Nicolas Sarkozy, not knowing his microphone is hot, expresses his contempt for Bibi Netanyahu, calls him a liar, and President...
Conrad Murray’s Conviction Has Left Everyone Else Off the Hook
One can only imagine the sigh of relief on the part of all those who contributed to the death of Michael Jackson. With...
An Unforgiving Electorate Invites Mediocrity in Public Office
Readers of this column will know that last week my wife and I, thank God, married off our eldest child. What they will not...
Message to My Daughter Under the Wedding Canopy
Mushki, given the paucity of my experience in conducting Jewish weddings, I feared that I'd perform the ceremony imperfectly and my own daughter...
