Observation ·
The End of the Orthodox Voting Bloc?
By Shlomo ZuckierThe New Jersey gubernatorial race suggests that increasing numbers of haredi Jews are now voting based on personal conviction rather than communal pragmatism.
Shlomo Zuckier
Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier is a Research Fellow at Notre Dame's Center for Philosophy of Religion. A founder of The Lehrhaus, he recently completed a PhD in Judaic studies at Yale University.
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American Orthodoxy’s Twilight of Authority
By Shlomo ZuckierWhen the established rabbis go silent, others, including civic-minded philanthropists and charismatic outsiders with inflammatory social-media presences, fill the void.
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What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Online Mourners Got Right and Wrong about Jews, Death, and the Afterlife
By Shlomo ZuckierWhen news of the Jewish justice's death spread last week, so did a lot of weird claims about how Jews should mourn and what they believe. It's time to clear things up.
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Does Virtual Seeing Count as Seeing under Jewish Law?
By Shlomo ZuckierCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
