Attempting to Restart the Peace Process Will Do More Harm Than Good
Why upend a sustainable status quo?
April 12, 2019
Idle Gossip and Judaism’s Theology of Speech
A desecration of what is most sacred.
This week’s Torah reding of M’tsora (Leviticus 14:1–15:33) deals at length with regulations pertaining to a person diagnosed with a dermatological ailment usually translated as leprosy. To the talmudic sages, this disease was a divine punishment for the sin of wicked speech—more precisely, any sort of disparagement of a fellow person. Reflecting on why rabbinic thought ascribes such gravity to this particular sin, Jonathan Sacks seeks the answer in the Jewish view of speech itself:
April 12, 2019
The Recent Election Is a Nail in the Coffin of Israel’s Labor Party
It failed to answer the question that was foremost in most Israelis’ minds.
A New Movie Tells How Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Mizrahi Party Came to Be
The Unorthodox.
Idle Gossip and Judaism’s Theology of Speech
A desecration of what is most sacred.
Casual Anti-Semitism and the Orthodox Air-Traveler
Smelly Jews on the plane?