Ideas

What’s happening right now around secular studies in Israeli yeshivas is remarkable

Leaders of non-Hasidic schools are bowing to pressure from parents who want their boys to earn a living, write scholars from the Israel Democracy Institute.

The Sit-Down Ideas

A legal scholar sizes up the religious argument against abortion bans

Elizabeth Reiner Platt says Jews are part of a long history of faith groups saying that abortion rights are religious rights.

Ideas

A walk on the beach was a hint of a better world to come

We all have the capacity to cherish each other’s uniqueness, writes the dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles.