He understood his adopted country’s potential, and its vulnerabilities.

And how much does its ideology matter?

The ultra-Orthodox/Modern Orthodox schism.

For today’s Jews, decisions are made not by organizations but by the community.

And what can be learned from it.

Secular faiths on campus demand certainty about questions that are too complex and too broad for certainty to be possible.

Modern Orthodoxy vs. humility.

Revisiting Eliezer Berkovits’s classic essay.

Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the synagogue on Sabbath afternoons.

Blue Americans with red values.

Soon by You.

An educational failure.

Debating Darwin in synagogue.