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Torah Is the Air We Breathe
Throughout the pandemic, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has singled out the Jewish community for violating “stay-at-home” orders. Now, although Jews still face severe restrictions on religious...
Ivanka, Jared, and the Jewish Sabbath
The media frenzy surrounding President Trump has included reports about his daughter and son-in-law’s observance of Jewish ritual, including resting on the Jewish Sabbath. On a few occasions, the...
Devotion and Sensibility
Judaism: A Way of Being by David Gelernter Yale, 248 pages, $26 n The gateway to a man’s soul is his eyes”not in the sense of what one sees...
When Values Collide
The term “Modern Orthodox” is, in a sense, self-contradictory, which makes one wonder why it has been used for so long to describe a significant portion of the Jewish...
