Rabbis
Isaac Mayer Wise and Zachary Taylor.
The authors mention Hamas not once, and instead focus on their own delicate feelings.
Where the Dutch queen approached the Munkatsher rebbe for a blessing.
Olaf Gerhard Tychsen, fellow of the sages.
Primed for criminality during their childhoods.
Remembering Nahum Eliezer Rabinovitch’s legacy of moral and intellectual integrity.
Starting with education.
Rationalists, less so.
Clean your houses, wash your hands, don’t eat pickles—and avoid crowds.
Why did one great rabbi help a cantankerous social misfit and rabbinic genius tar a third rabbi as a heretic?
And the rabbi who exiled him to Cleveland.
At the very least, one should learn some humility.
Today’s liberal Judaism may or may not have struck the right balance between tradition and change; but that’s a conversation worth having.
Shabbetai ha-Kohen’s books.