Shmuley Boteach
ARTICLES BY: Shmuley Boteach
Bin Laden’s Burial and other Religious Frauds
The bizarre burial of Osama bin Laden at sea - an action necessitated by our government's need to accommodate Islamic law requiring that a Muslim...
Why Chabad and Jewry Urgently Needs an Institute of Jewish Values
Forgive the imperfections contained in this column. I am writing it quickly and late at night in order to respond to Chabad feedback I have...
The Morality of Killing Bin Laden
In imagining how we Americans would react to the news that Osama bin Laden had finally been killed, I expected mass expressions of relief. But...
How to Respond to Osama Bin Laden’s Death
A few moments after hearing that the United States military had killed Osama bin Laden, I quickly tweeted congratulations to President Obama, the American military,...
Eric Cantor’s Showdown with President Obama
The 'Responsibility to protect' is currently being debated in American policy circles. Do wealthy nations have an obligation to intervene when innocents are being slaughtered...
Anorexia and Corrupt Values in Jewish Dating
The New York Times article last week about the explosion of anorexia and eating disorders in the orthodox community highlights a tragedy that has long...
Samantha Power Clarifies Her Comments on Israel
In a column last week I shared my disappointment in discovering that one of the people whose thought and books have been a formative influence...
Goldstone’s Apology and Samantha Power’s Problem with Israel
On my recent lecture tour in South Africa the subject of Judge Richard Goldstone came up quite a lot. Whether it was the dinner in...
The Chabadization of Judaism
The past few weeks I have seen a revolution. On a lecture tour that took me to Sydney, Australia and Cape Town and Johannesburg, South...
Hating Evil
Hearing about a bomb going off in Jerusalem is entirely different when you have two daughters living there. You scramble for your phone. You search...
Why Values-Voters Have Completely Failed
For thirty-odd years evangelical Christians and social conservatives have championed values as central to the American political agenda, promoting the integrity of the family and...
Fall of a Jewish LionӬӬӬ
Jerusalem today is booming. While property prices in the United States plummet, in Jerusalem they skyrocket. The city has a youthfulness and dynamism equaled in...
Portman’s Bold Attack on an Anti-Semite and Huckabee’s Untimely Critique
Just as I was about to write a column praising Natalie Portman for attacking racist John Galliano, along comes Mike Huckabee to attack her as...
Obama and the Myth of the First Black President
If Toni Morrison, the Nobel-prize winning African-American novelist, can refer to Bill Clinton, a white man, as America's first black president, then surely the process...
