Rabbi Shlomo Brody, founding director of the Tikvah Overseas Students Institute, is an Orthodox rabbi, a columnist for The Jerusalem Post, and a postdoctoral fellow at Bar Ilan University Law School.
The rabbi joins us to enumerate the principles of Jewish social justice, and to explain how you can differentiate between your own views and those of the Hebrew Bible.
There’s an argument for leniency particularly in Israel, where the surrounding society naturally facilitates some form of ritual observance on the part of would-be Jews.
The greater threat to Jewish mores stems not from same-sex marriage but from heterosexual promiscuity.