Someone once proposed that we light the whole menorah on the first night, then cut back one candle each night. With the difficult economic times, has the time come for that change, columnist Edmon J. Rodman asks.
On issues involving gays beyond sex — discrimination, anti-gay violence — the Orthodox community has a dilemma: How to condemn the anti-gay activity without being seen as endorsing, as one Orthodox leader put it, the “mainstreaming of the homosexual lifestyle.”
In a new study of emerging Jewish leaders aged 20 to 40, the more upwardly mobile seem to affiliate with the traditional, establishment Zionist and Jewish organizations, while the traditional middle class are those involved in non-establishment, progressive start-ups.