Posts Tagged: shmuley boteach
Obama’s Refusal to Hate Evil
The greatest moral failure of our time is a refusal to hate evil. Hatred of evil implies both the right to make judgments as well...
The Spiritual Snake Oil Salesman
Many things may be said of Ayatollah Ali Khameini. That he is the world's foremost terrorist is born out by the simple fact that he is...
The Spiritual Education of Cory Booker
Twenty-one years ago a young African-American Rhodes scholar walked into our Jewish student center at the University of Oxford in England. He had a date...
Hamas Leaders Criticize Celebrity Doctor Mehmet Oz Over Israel Visit
Not everyone is pleased with television personality, medical doctor and Turk Dr. Mehmet Oz's recent visit to the Holy Land. According to anonymous blogger Elder of...
Dr. Oz Praises PM Netanyahu’s ‘Passion’ for Israel-Turkey Relations
Television personality, medical doctor and Turk Dr. Mehmet Oz praised Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's commitment to Israel-Turkey relations in a meeting Thursday in Jerusalem. "I was...
Sheldon Adelson at 80
This past Friday marked the 80th birthday on the Jewish calendar of philanthropist Sheldon Adelson. There is something unique about Sheldon that is rare in people of...
Did I Make Cory Booker ‘Too Jewish’?
Recently, Jeffrey Goldberg, a journalist I know and respect, repeated, in the New York Post, Peter Beinart's attack against me from a few weeks ago, that in...
Peter Beinart’s Attack on Me and Cory Booker
Last week Peter Beinart wrote a column on The Daily Beast called "Cory Booker's Rabbis" which surmised that my 20 year friendship with the...
The Raging Battle Over Samantha Power
This past week I endured phenomenal criticism from close colleagues who are amazed that I have vouched for my friend Samantha Power as United States...
The Sinful Marriage
Marriage and long-term relationships are on the decline throughout the world as is marital sex, which has been reduced, in the United States, to about...
The Character of LA’s First Jewish Mayor, Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti has just been elected one of Los Angeles' youngest mayors ever. Eric was a Rhodes scholar in Oxford from about 1993 to 1995....
Was the Holocaust Punishment for Sin?
For so many people religion is practiced out of a sense superstition. Like a furry rabbit's foot, it wards off evil spirits. Fulfilling...
Reversing the Corrosive Message of Commencements
Twenty three years ago a young Mormon Doctoral student came to our Friday night Sabbath dinner at Oxford with a Jewish friend. Though I had...
And Hate the Sinner Too
Let me surprise you for a moment. The reason that tragedies, like the outrageous terrorist bombing in Boston this week, continue to take place is...
