 | Open Minded Torah: Of Irony, Fundamentalism and Love A beautiful book, an exhilarating hybrid... Jonathan Rosen, author of The Talmud and the Internet ...a book for people who want help listening for the elusive, important silences that course beneath the clamor of everyday life... Judith Shulevitz, author of The Sabbath World Enlightening and enthralling... Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks |
What the author of Paradise Lost might say about religion in if he were alive today -in ‘On Faith’ in the Washington Post. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
My conversation with the Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg about what he calls my ‘wonderfully engaging’ and ‘beautiful book’ . Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
So you’ve never been to a Jewish wedding? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
My latest in the Washington Post Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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On my walk to work today, I met an old friend. He looked down, so I stopped, and sat with him on a neighborhood bench. The father of seven children, several of them sons, all of them gifted in their studies, he expressed regrets about life-choices. His children, especially the sons, were facing tough economic [...]
My take on the attacks in Eilat and protests for ‘Social Justice’ – in the Washington Post’s ‘On Faith’ Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Earlier this summer, I was pleased to find that my friend Jonathan Rosenblum had written about me and my new book in his weekly column in the Jewish weekly, Mishpacha. In the column, ’Holding the Torah to Its Own Standards,’ Rosenblum relates to the chapter in Open Minded Torah, ‘Fear and Loathing in Jerusalem,’ which recounts [...]
A new ‘Letter from Israel‘ in the Washington Post Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Some people say that Open Minded Torah is an oxymoron – I prefer the Greek trope, discordia concors, a discordant harmony (the stress is variable, either on the noun or the adjective). And in that spirit, some nice words about Open Mined Torah from disparate places: the Sisterhood – not what you think – [...]
