Teens Connect to Judaism Through Justice
UPDATE: House Passes a VAWA that Does Not Protect All Victims
VAWA Amendment Violates First Amendment
Although the Senate passed a bipartisan version of VAWA last month that would extend protection from intimate partner violence to all victims regardless of sexual orientation, gender ide
Learn about VAWA in this week's Legislative Update
Torat Hamelech
There are times in which we will want to harm the innocent from the outset. And their presence and their killing is actually beneficial and helpful to us.
Words Not Spoken . . . Words Not Heard
Words are powerful. In Genesis, chapter one, God creates through words: “God said, ‘Let there be light!’—and there was light. . . . God said, ‘Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters,’. . . . God now said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image,’ ” (Genesis 1:3, 6, 26).
Members of Military Support Equal Rights for Servicewomen
What We Can Learn from Las Presidentas
Negotiations With Iran Begin
The Challenge of Righteousness
The wording of the verse gives rise to this debate. The text states that “Noah was a righteous man,” but immediately follows with the phrase “in his generation, he was above reproach. . . ” All of us, including the ancient Rabbis, are left to wonder if Noah is exceptional or not, if his righteousness would be universally righteous or simply righteous in his time.