The Sit-Down Ideas Legal scholar Noah Feldman on the 10 Commandments, Christian nationalism and the Jewish future of church and state A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish.”
Ideas How to disagree as Jews in a time of deep schisms The Talmud offers a framework for hearing the divine in your opponent’s words, writes a California rabbi.
Ideas The battle over Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is over the future of church-state separation This Supreme Court has already departed from historic standards around the separation of church and state, notes a legal scholar.
The Reform movement’s decision to admit intermarried rabbis is good. Truly welcoming them would be great.
Pulitzer Prize finalist tells story of the little-known Jewish lawyer who tried to keep Emma Goldman out of jail