One of my biggest struggles, even when I was still religious, was with the realization that as a person I had grown way more from therapy and self-help books than from any amount of “Torah wisdom”.
This was unacceptable to me. I didn’t want it to be this way. Torah...
Some questions I had about Judaism, I got answers that worked, to a point.
There were explanations that fit within a larger framework. And as long as that framework was intact, the answers worked.
"Why does the Torah tell us to do this or that?""Because God said so."
Fair enough.
I can struggle...
Much as militant religion is full of contradictory claims, each invoked at the right moment, militant ethno-nationalism suffers the same fate.
For every Israeli killed since 1948 (9,000), there are 10 Palestinians dead (90,000).
For every Jewish child killed in October 7th (38), there are 300 Palestinian children killed in...
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Are you worried that someone from the secular world will ask you a question about Judaism that you don’t have an answer for?
Are you heading out to a campus to inspire others about Judaism with only a tenuous amount of knowledge of it yourself?
Are you concerned...
“No other religion claims to have experienced public revelation. Therefore, it’s a claim that is so outlandish, that it must have actually occurred because otherwise no one else would have been stupid enough to believe in it, or brazen enough to ‘introduce’ it into the cultural narrative.”
Thus goes the...
The following is a guest post by an anonymous contributor. I found their response articulate, poignant, and personal, stating in different tones a lot of the issues and personal grievances I struggled with myself. I relate a lot to the feeling of having given my all, trying to be...
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He never learned much math.
Math was limited to two hours a week with a secular studies...
Chapter 16: Spreading Wings
I have long had a tenuous relationship with Israel. Israelis as a collective bug the shit out...
Remembering Rabbi Noach Weinberg, Founder of Aish Hatorah
One of my earliest memories of Rabbi Noach Weinberg, also known by the more anglicized name of...