Posts Tagged: secular Jews
How Fake News Harms Jews and Jewish Observance
We live in a world where, more than ever before, our ideas and values have come under scrutiny and assault. What makes our times more...
We Need to Talk About the Importance of Non-Orthodox Movements
JNS.org - The Jewish Federations of North America held their annual General Assembly last week under the title “We Need to Talk” -- with “we”...
The Devastating Impact of American Non-Jewish Jews
There is no disputing that, except for the vast majority of Orthodox Jews, American Jews and their leaders have distanced themselves from their Jewish identity. In...
The Struggle for the Jewish Soul
Last week, I wrote about the vast divide between communities of Jews totally at odds religiously and politically. But there is another divide much closer to...
The Legacy of the Rebbe: We Must Never Give Up on Any Jew
JNS.org - The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has been in the news recently due to a video clip of people laying tefillin at an airport. I would like to discuss...
The Enduring Preciousness of the Secular Jew
We live in an age of unabashed irreverence. Debunking has become the norm, and at every turn, we experience a need to expose the clay...
Where Does Israel Fit in a Jewish Future Without Faith?
JNS.org - For Prime Minister Netanyahu’s political opponents, his government’s woes aren’t just an opportunity to score political points -- they also provide easy-to-understand explanations for American...
The Hebrew Bible As Common Ground
Followers of the three great Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity and Islam, which comprise more than half the world's 7 billion people--frequently spend more time focusing on...
Christians Show Love of Israel in Jerusalem Streets
There was love in the air of Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon. Marching through the streets of Jerusalem, approximately 6,000 Christian friends of Israel made their...
When the United Nations Unites One Nation
Jews and decent people the world over swelled in appreciation when Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke some words of truth in a house of...
The Danger of Paper
When I began dating a cute guy with an incredible education and job, I felt like I had found the kind of man that only...
American Jewry: The 2012 Edition
To some in the Jewish community, the recently published UJA Federation of New York study which looked at New York's Jewish demographics, came as a...
Orthodox Jews in the IDF are a Blessing for Israel
The other day I received an email from a friend in Canada to which he attached an article written last week by a Nathan Hersh...
Israel, The Long View
I'm sitting on the porch of the home of my friends the Selas, in Binyamina, south of Haifa, gazing out on the garden they created,...
