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 This Supreme Court has already departed from historic standards around the separation of church and state, notes a legal scholar.
Ideas The Reform movement’s decision to admit intermarried rabbis is good. Truly welcoming them would be great. Interfaith families crave a positive and fully inclusive attitude, not just permission, writes the founder of 18Doors.
Pulitzer Prize finalist tells story of the little-known Jewish lawyer who tried to keep Emma Goldman out of jail