The Case Against Polygamy
About two months ago, my wife and I visited and entered the fundamentalist Mormon community of Colorado Sprigs, Arizona, the very base of imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs.
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Passover 2008: Triumphs of the Greatest Generation Give Reason for Hope in a Pretty Awful Year
Harold Pollack | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
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Next Passover, we will have a new president. If President Obama, President Clinton, or President McCain is merely less disastrous than President Bush, Dayenu.
Nice Jewish Girl Attends Jum'a Before Shabbat
Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living
In an effort to improve Muslim-Jewish relations in NYC, the city's most prominent mosque and the flagship seminary of the Jewish Conservative movement have reached out to one another.
I Want to Be a Comedian, But I'm Worried I Don't Loathe Myself Enough
Alex Remington | Posted 03.21.2008 | Entertainment
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Neuroses aren't funny in themselves unless you can sell them -- no one really likes to be around people who are cripplingly neurotic, unless the social and mental pratfalls caused by their painfully miswired brain also happen to be hilarious.
On Not Abandoning Your (or Sen. Obama's) Church
Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 03.17.2008 | Living
I would see it as a strength of my religious congregation -- I do see it as a strength -- that I can't predict anything about its members' politics just because they are members.
Where Is My Brother, My Keeper?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 03.11.2008 | Living
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The sight of Gazans rejoicing at the cold-blooded murder of eight yeshiva students who had not hurt anyone was particularly jolting for me.
Obama on Israel: Change We Can Believe In?
Sam Sedaei | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
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Some of Obama's comments reveal the biggest change he has undergone since he began his campaign: his language on Israel.
TED 2008 / Day 2: Dave Eggers and Tutoring, Neil Turok and the next African Einstein, Karen Armstrong and the Charter for Compassion
Bruno Giussani | Posted 02.28.2008 | Home
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(Unedited running notes from the TED2008 conference in Monterey, California: TED Prize session) Every year at TED, three exceptional people are award...
Modest is the New Sexy
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 02.26.2008 | Living
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A time to take women seriously had finally arrived. But what are we to make of wildly popular student-run sex magazines like H Bomb, Boink, and SWAY?
A Racist Jewish Court?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living
It is time to finally put to bed a malicious libel against Judaism that is getting increasing attention in modern media -- that Judaism will not allow for the breaking of the Sabbath to save a non-Jewish life.
Next Time Boychick, We Take the Whole Thing
Erica Jong | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living
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What is wrong with the chosen people? Chosen for pain? All the psychological troubles of Jewish men -- from Freud to Lenny Bernstein to Philip Roth -- must stem from the dubious ritual of circumcision.
Chabad Messianists: Wrong, But Still Jews
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living
The shock of losing a man of such singular distinction led some in Chabad to mistakenly lend him immortality by declaring him to be the long-awaited Messiah.
Finding Myself in an Italian Tablecloth
Sherman Yellen | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living
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I rose from my chair and turned to my wife saying, "We have to go, love." Everyone looked up at us surprised. The Contessa asked if I was ill. I replied, "No, not ill, merely Jewish." She looked stunned.
The Receding Hemlines of Crown Heights
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 12.17.2007 | Living
Jewish values must be restored to religious dating. The orthodox community can no longer turn a blind eye to the growing artifice of the religious dating scene.
Is Hanukkah Causing Global Warming?
Bruce Feiler | Posted 12.05.2007 | Living
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Come on, people, where is the anger!?! Hanukkah is destroying our planet.
Bah, Hitchens
Daniel Radosh | Posted 12.04.2007 | Media
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Christopher Hitchens spreads a little holiday cheer today with an essay denouncing Hanukkah. Like all Hitchens' work on religion, it's smart, witty and totally frustrating.
A Balanced Life, A Balanced Nation
Susan Smalley | Posted 11.29.2007 | Living
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On the heels of our annual celebration of giving, there is this rapid shift in attention toward 'getting' with the consumer blitz of Black Friday.
Of Tent Revivals, Wayward Husbands and Chicken Dinners
Steven Denlinger | Posted 11.24.2007 | Living
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I used to think that people make decisions logically. Jantzi understood better. Jantzi understood the power of tears.
Dear Mr. Dershowitz...
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 11.17.2007 | Politics
I did not realize I had endangered serious debate by discussing your moral ambiguity on the topic of torture.
Why Humans are Different -- Oy Vey!
Jon Entine | Posted 11.16.2007 | Media
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How do we talk about human differences in a society that believes that "diversity" should be celebrated, but only if it's skin deep?
Ahmadinejad Holocaust's Myths
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics
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In his speech at Columbia University, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated two myths about the Holocaust.
Yom Kippur: Atonement
Karen Stabiner | Posted 09.21.2007 | Living
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Lately it seems atonements are tossed off reflexively. People seem to think they can leaven misbehavior with a shrug and a "sorry."
A Real Snake?
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 09.20.2007 | Politics
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It is quite shocking to hear a former U.S. Senator refer to a supporter of Israel as a "snake." Well, I am that "snake."
Making the Decision to Stay Home on Rosh Hashana. Or Not.
Penelope Trunk | Posted 09.13.2007 | Living
There is a lot of peer pressure to stay home and observe the holidays. But there is also a lot of pressure to go to work.
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