American Judaism
Tablets Shattered.
Today’s Jews need not freedom, but guidance.
Pragmatism, egalitarianism, and Orthodox congregationalism.
But the glass is half full.
Fighting the “clay-pigeon model of religious life.”
A brewing crisis at the Conservative and Reform seminaries.
“Watch the Super Bowl with your family,” one rabbi advises.
Abraham Cahan was one of America’s first great Jewish newspapermen, and set an example of independent thinking that the nation could sorely use today.
Online prayer will never match the power of in-person worship.
“In those moments my spirit, moved me instinctively to thank God for the sanctification of life the Jewish state embodies.”
The story of a small congregation of converts.
But the problems are real, and need new solutions.
Peanut oil and the bat mitzvah.