Ideas

Community is missing in online shul

To the Editor: A shul is a place of community and cannot be replaced by sitting at your computer and looking at a screen. Stan Ames Henderson, Nev.

Ideas

Online shul is a ridiculous idea

To the Editor: Re: “New sites make shul an online-only experience,” this has to be the most ridiculous Jewish idea ever. Judaism holds time, space and things to be sacred; all that is defeated when you uplink to an Internet connection to pray. It is not meant to pray Jewishly all at once, all over […]

Ideas

Op-Ed: Jews of the world, collaborate!

Shifting our synagogues, schools, charities and institutions toward a collaborative model will bring untold gains. If we fail to do so, we will continue to repeat the same mistakes over and over, writes a Jewish marketing expert.

Op-Ed: Let’s recognize the sacred power of this time – for peace

Op-Ed: The Shoes of Majdanek

No High Holiday problems for Stoudemire

Op-Ed: Couple behind Ground Zero mosque a model of tolerance

Op-Ed: The words behind the man behind the mosque

Op-Ed: The need for ‘followership’ programs

Op-Ed: Palestinian leaders must foster hope, not hate

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