I think that when it comes to systematic, ongoing cover-up of child molestation, it's hardly necessary to be Catholic in order to have the moral right to criticize.

What kind of a person would write such a book for kids?  It's not just that the premise is  scary, but this business about a breeze that transports her back in time to Birkenau has to be the most tasteless literary device I've ever ...

Although I don't identify as Reform and thus can't be accused of bias toward it, I would've ranked Rabbi Eric Yoffie, not Marvin Hier, as #1.  Rabbi Yoffie is, after all, the primary spokesperson for what is now the largest Jewish ...

Eli isn't denying that anti-Semitism is a concern.  He's attacking the cynical, self-serving use of hectoring fear tactics to solicit donations.  Yes, anti-Semitism, regardless of the source, is a problem--nothing new about that.  ...

I learned from Prof. Joseph Schatzmiller of the University of Toronto that in the time of Maimonides, the Jewish women of Cairo refused to go to the mikvah until their demands for certain halakhic leniencies were met.  Despite blustering from their ...

..any more than they are with kashrut (dietary laws). It's like when people, both Jewish and non-Jewish, claim that the rationale for not eating pork is that pigs carry trichinosis. This theory has long been discredited because (a) in ...