OpEd

Ideas

When the political stakes are high, Judaism doesn’t place all the responsibility on a single charismatic leader

Leadership and citizenship are about sharing the burden, writes a senior vice president at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.

The Sit-Down Ideas

Legal scholar Noah Feldman on the 10 Commandments, Christian nationalism and the Jewish future of church and state

A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish.”

Ideas

How to disagree as Jews in a time of deep schisms

The Talmud offers a framework for hearing the divine in your opponent’s words, writes a California rabbi.

Ideas

The battle over Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is over the future of church-state separation

Ideas

The Reform movement’s decision to admit intermarried rabbis is good. Truly welcoming them would be great.

Ideas

In the 1940s, Jewish scholars planned a museum about the world they were losing

Ideas

Israelis are getting religion, in spite of a coercive Chief Rabbinate

Ideas

Made to feel unwelcome at Pride, LGBTQ Jews will not cede joy

Ideas

Jews are in a moment of broken illusions, but we’re stronger than we think

The Sit-Down

Pulitzer Prize finalist tells story of the little-known Jewish lawyer who tried to keep Emma Goldman out of jail

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