Ideas

To the Editor: As a kid growing up in Queens, N.Y., I attended a Conservative synagogue. It, too, was a bar mitzvah factory. Once I was bar mitzvahed my observance, such that it was, waned completely. For me, Jewishness was being secular in Israel. But that didn’t last, and neither did my connection. My son, […]

To the Editor: We have enough Jews who hate themselves and are too weak to be proud, we don’t need to care about a Christopher Hitchens with his Jewish genes and anti-Jewish rhetoric. The fact that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach can be his friend gives credence to the self-loathing of Jews. Rabbi Schmuley is a perfect […]