Spirituality/Tradition
Holy Texting! Does New App Make Smartphone Use Permissible on Shabbat?
JNS.org - Teens love texting. Cell phones don't jive with Shabbat. A new app seeks to address this uniquely Jewish case of "unstoppable...
Morals Make Us Human, and They Can Be Taught
Are we naturally good or naturally bad? On this, great minds have argued for centuries. Hobbes believed that we have naturally "a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."...
From Opera House to House of Commons, Diaspora Jews Are the Target
JNS.org - This week, the opera "The Death of Klinghoffer" opened in New York. Rightly castigated for its invocation of unpleasant Jewish stereotypes and its apologia for the Palestinian terrorists' murder of an elderly Jewish...
Known for Chemistry, Israeli Nobel Laureate Also Champions Tech Entrepreneurship
JNS.org - Dan Shechtman, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and a candidate in last June's Israeli presidential election, has long championed technological entrepreneurship and its potential to improve lives around the...
Jewish Boycotts – Then and Now
JNS.org - A clash between anti-boycott activists and a group of Jewish studies professors,...
Poll: 75% of Israeli Jews Oppose Return to ’67 Borders
A new poll conducted from October 12-14, shows that a majority of Israeli Jews oppose...
Lessons to Learn From Rabbi Barry Freundel
The arrest of Rabbi Barry Freundel, spiritual leader of the Kesher Israel congregation in Washington, DC, is...
Kosher and Non-Kosher Voyeurism
In my book Kosher Adultery I suggested that husbands make their wives into webcam girls....
The Genesis of Justice
There are words that change the world, none more so than two sentences that appear...
Holy Texting! Does New App Make Smartphone Use Permissible on Shabbat?
JNS.org - Teens love texting. Cell phones don't jive with Shabbat. A new app seeks to address this uniquely Jewish case of "unstoppable force...
Morals Make Us Human, and They Can Be Taught
Are we naturally good or naturally bad? On this, great minds have argued for centuries. Hobbes believed that we have naturally "a perpetual and restless...
From Opera House to House of Commons, Diaspora Jews Are the Target
JNS.org - This week, the opera "The Death of Klinghoffer" opened in New York. Rightly castigated for its invocation of unpleasant Jewish stereotypes and its...
Known for Chemistry, Israeli Nobel Laureate Also Champions Tech Entrepreneurship
JNS.org - Dan Shechtman, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and a candidate in last June's Israeli presidential election, has long championed...
Jewish Boycotts – Then and Now
JNS.org - A clash between anti-boycott activists and a group of Jewish studies professors, which has recently become the subject of much debate in...
Poll: 75% of Israeli Jews Oppose Return to ’67 Borders
A new poll conducted from October 12-14, shows that a majority of Israeli Jews oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders,...
Lessons to Learn From Rabbi Barry Freundel
The arrest of Rabbi Barry Freundel, spiritual leader of the Kesher Israel congregation in Washington, DC, is an event which should prompt soul-searching in the Orthodox Jewish...
Kosher and Non-Kosher Voyeurism
In my book Kosher Adultery I suggested that husbands make their wives into webcam girls. I was being facetious, but only just. We remain sexually...
The Genesis of Justice
There are words that change the world, none more so than two sentences that appear in the first chapter of the Torah: Then God said, "Let...
Torah Scroll for the U.S. Military Re-Writes a Legacy
JNS.org - Have you ever seen your name engraved on a tombstone? It's almost an out-of-body experience. Death stares you in the face. Of...
The Karaites and Simchat Torah
Who are the Karaites, and do they keep Simchat Torah? I have several times in the past come across Jews, invariably thoughtful and charming, who have...
Swastikas Stir Controversy at Yale and Sears
JNS.org - Yale University students discovered swastikas spray painted on the sidewalk outside a freshman dormitory Monday night. This is the second such incident...
Current UNRWA ‘Human Rights’ Website Includes Anti-Semitism
I found this document, titled "The historical development of human rights throughout history," at an UNRWA Arabic website dedicated to human rights. It goes through the human rights...
International MPs Sound Support for Israel in Psagot Sukkah
PSAGOT - In a sukkah on a hilltop outside Jerusalem, 20 international parliamentarians gathered together at the Psagot winery on Sunday evening, October 12, as part...
