The opening of this year’s 2016 National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton sounded weird to my ears. In New York City you don’t normally hear people saying that they will “pray on that,” or...
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Rebbe Hillary Clinton at CNN Town Hall
Dateline Manchester, New Hampshire, a week before the presidential primary. The setting was a CNN Town Hall meeting. The query came from Rabbi Jonathan Spira-Savett of Temple Beth Abraham in Nashua...
Prager Slams Transgender Policies As World Embraces Mx
This week, on the East Coast, The Washington Post announced that it will use ‘they’ as a singular pronoun in stories where the subject identifies as neither a “he” nor a...
Who is 2014’s Sexiest Rabbi?
Jewrotica has announced the opening of nominations for this year’s sexiest Rabbis. I guess I should say “sexiest” because, despite the site’s nomenclature, this isn’t a...
What Converts to Judaism Can Teach Our Rabbis
Over the years we’ve discussed conversions on many occasions on this site. For instance, here is one of the more interesting discussions. A number of days ago a respected and prominent American...
Picturing Rabbis: Rabbis on Instagram
Having written about my using of Instagram, I wanted to see how many rabbis are using Instagram. So, I ran a search of “Rabbi” on Instagram, I discovered there are not that many rabbis...