Showing posts with label Judaism (General). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Judaism (General). Show all posts
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Interfaith Marriage in the American Jewish Community: Where Can We Go From Here?

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There are few topics that seem to be at odds with my libertarianism and Judaism, but interfaith marriage is one of them. This hits home not ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Should Jews Commemorate Yom HaShoah?

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The Holocaust took the lives of over 6 million Jews, as well as 5 million non-Jews. The Holocaust not only wiped out a third of the Jewish p...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

How to Respond to Scumbags That Murder Innocent Israeli Teenagers

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About three weeks ago, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped by terrorists (well, one was technically American, but the news is still dism...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Are the Haredim Right to Be Protesting Compulsory Military Service?

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This past Sunday , thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel were protesting in Jerusalem about members of their community being required t...
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Post-Yom Kippur Thoughts on Technological Teshuvah

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Most actions or objects are not inherently bad, wrong, or evil. Fire can be used to destroy, but it also has positive uses such as heat, li...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Psalm 16:8: Always Having G-d Before Us

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I was on the bus today, and my mind could not help but to be fixated on a certain Biblical verse: Psalms 16:8. I was specifically focused on...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Spiritual Realism and Passover Cleaning

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It's one of my least favorite times of the year: Passover cleaning. You had to clean your abode so thoroughly that there is not a crumb ...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

A Jewish Perspective on Constructive Humility

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I recently came across an intriguing quote about humility that is attributed to Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook from his book Middot HaRa'aya :...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Why Jews Should Still Lament and Fast on Tisha B'Av

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I have always had a difficult time with Tisha B'Av.  For me, Judaism has been a forward-looking, optimistic worldview.  To have a day in...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Why Jews Need to Take It Easy with Tikkun Olam

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For many in the American Jewish community, tikkun olam  (literally meaning "repairing the world") has become synonymous with socia...
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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Hypocrisy vs Inconsistency: A Different Perspective on Religious Life

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This is one of those fun charges that atheists and anti-religious people like to throw at me. Essentially, it goes something like this: the ...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Was Glenn Beck Right About Reform Judaism? You Bet He Was!

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A couple of days ago, Glenn Beck had compared Reform Judaism to Fundamentalism Islam.  The comparison that Beck had made was that "bot...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Jews Should Learn Hebrew

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You would think that the title of this blog is a no-brainer, that all Jews should already know Hebrew, or at the very least, have picked it ...