What Israelis Need Now
Friends … As always, you have been great (did I expect anything else?) about the lecture cancellations. I wrote you not because I need those lectures (believe me, I have more invitations then I can handle, and those […]
Category Archives: Religion
The Boulders in the River – A Thousand Years of Women’s Achievements
If we are going to talk about the history of women, Jewish women, over the last thousand years, let’s start with the tale of Gertrude B. Elion, who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for her work in medical […]
The “Hundred Rabbis” Scam
Got a long, impressive beard and the keys to a once respectable Rabbinical institution whose founding father has passed away? Have no conscience, and no marketable skills? Boy, have I got a business for you. It’s called the […]
What Religious Women Want
On Thursday, the Fast of Esther, religious women gathered outside Maasiyahu prison to make a point: Every Jewish woman who marries according the present halachic ceremony acceptable in Orthodox Judaism is a potential prisoner. The current state of […]
A Modest Proposal — Disband the Rabbinical Courts
I once read a book by a Western doctor who did his obstetrics residency in Algeria. The place had no equipment. No medicine. Not even educated staff. In the end, he concluded that it was ” just a […]
The Year That Was; The Year to Come
With the beginning of a New Year, I thought I would bring you up to date on some of the lives I brought to your attention through these columns. Every one of them became part of my life, […]
Hiding Behind a Torah Scroll
It’s Sunday, September 3. Outside my window a great shout has gone up from loudspeakers and the line of cars traveling to Tel Aviv is completely still. Aryeh Deri is on his way to jail. Finally. When the […]
The Incredible Shrinking Heart and Mind
I got a letter not long ago from a wonderful Christian minister involved in a lifetime of good works whose daughter had married a nonobservant Jew. The family had welcomed him with love. But at a certain point, […]
Women Against Women – Let’s Stop Fighting Each Other and Change the World
In 1911, Lady Musgrave, President of the East Grinstead branch of the Anti-Suffragette League said she was strongly against the vote being extended to women. “Put not this additional burden upon us,” she pleaded, as “women were not […]