Judaism
Hillel at the Crossroads: NEU Hillel Protests “Fear-Based Tactics”
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Hence, the question is just how anomalous the NEU Hillel incident actually was?
Judaism
Hillel at the Crossroads: How Things Broke Down in Boston
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That’s when everything began escalating into open rebellion.
Judaism
Boundary Crossers: New Book Explores Jewish Spiritual Leaders in Non-Jewish Religions
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Levin’s exploration of Jews who are spiritual leaders in other traditions is valuable, as a historical document, an exploration of Jewish identity, and a discussion about spiritual pluralism and religious identities.
Judaism
Hillel at the Crossroads: Who’s Responsible for Hillel?
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The name Hillel stands for one thing: the next generation. Yet, the organization, which sports a $126.4 million-dollar budget and is staffed by approximately 1,000 employees, is greatly misunderstood.
Rethinking Religion
Holy Nones, Pray for Us
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Christian history has shown that it’s no big leap from the mass mental conjuring of Jews as spiritual degenerates to pogroms and genocide.
Culture
A Spot at the Kotel Won't Save Us: A Crisis in American Judaism
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My contention is that these crises signify not the end of liberal Jewish identity in America, but its new beginning.
Culture
Oh Crap! I’m Triggered Again, Part One
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Holding steady when the ground is moving is normally part of my stock-in-trade.People often ask me for something to help put their own fears into perspective. Usually I am willing and able to oblige. Mostly I try my best to see the bigger picture, and mostly that effort pays off. But not now. I was staying more or less centered until a few days ago when something caught me off-guard. In the middle of a conference call, I got a text message carrying information that turned out not to be true, that the Barcelona terrorist who mowed down 13 lives like grass had been heading for a kosher restaurant on Las Ramblas, hard by the assassin’s abandoned car.
Rethinking Religion
The Crown Jewels of the Jewish People
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The question of who can hold a Torah scroll at the Kotel is related to the question of who can open that Torah scroll and learn from it, and who can shape and be shaped by Torah. The answer, as I have come to discover, is that everyone can, and everyone should.
Christianity
Paris, Trump, and the Religious Right
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“Resisting the Green Dragon: A Biblical Response to one of the Greatest Deceptions
of our Day,” that is, environmentalism. Paris, Trump, and the Religious Right
Note: This article includes excerpts from my book, Love in a Time of Climate Change, to be released by Fortress Press in July. Like many of you, I am appalled by many things that Donald Trump has said and done in the first months of his presidency, including his announcement that he’s pulling the United States out of the (largely symbolic) Paris Climate Agreement. But we must look beyond the daily spectacles of the Trump Administration to see what’s really going on. Now that Republicans dominate Congress, they are quietly working to enact regressive policies that have been in the works for decades, policies that target the poor, people who are sick, people of color, immigrants, women, our young and aged, and yes, the environment.