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  • Friday, December 11, 2009

    The Great (and Imperfect) Hope That Is Chabad

    Back when I was serving as a Chabad emissary at Oxford University, the great British philosopher Isaiah Berlin, who had befriended me, once told me that while he admired my work bringing Jewish students closer to their tradition, he was utterly opposed to the large menorah I erected in the city ...

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  • Monday, November 09, 2009

    The British Dare to Determine Who is a Jew

    Every once in a while a story comes along so jolting that it is scarcely believable. One such story was that which appeared in the New York Times of all places this past Sunday about how the Jews’ Free School in London has been ordered to admit a child whose mother had a non-orthodox ...

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  • Wednesday, October 21, 2009

    How Rabbis Can Become Relevant

    Speaking at a Rabbinical Conference in the American South this week, I made myself instantly unpopular by pointing out how irrelevant we Rabbis have become. How many parents push their kids to be Rabbis? Sure. If the kid flunked science and math. Perhaps. But to choose it over law or a job at ...

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