• Why Israel is #1 in altruistic organ donation • Teacher wins appeal after firing for opposing LGBT lessons • Right-wing Orthodox Jewish group urges government to limit Law of Return • On running a Jewish organization – Planning to fail: Why your most expensive mistakes are mental

Halachic Worldviews: Directions from Jewish Laws by R. Tzvi Goldstein (Mosaica) My Special Uncle Hardcover by Ahuva Ehrenpreis (Mosaica)

by R. Gil Student During many eras in Jewish history, Jews converted to other religions, whether due to physical, financial or social pressure or otherwise. Many of these wayward Jews returned to the Jewish community, sometimes after escaping the country. While a Jew who sins remains Jewish (Sanhedrin 44a), he might still have to undergo a return ritual in order ...

• S Pruzansky – A simple protest – because, pride lobby, the Torah is not changing • The demand is not for tolerance but to change halachah – For the Orthodox LGBT Jews, tolerance alone is not enough • He might be tilting at windmills or he may be saving Modern Orthodoxy – Rabbi Jeremy Wieder Offers Plan to Secure Day School ...

• Jewish Summer Camps Find Ways to Limit, Adapt to Technology • Which states are the worst at protecting religious nonprofits? • Rabbi Sacks’ powerful legacy could not be more relevant for young people • Ed Sheeran is popular — but Talmud more so, per stadium attendance • A Christian psychotherapist’s appeal to LGBT-affirming Christian

• This is a self-inflicted injury, the result of focusing almost entirely on youth and the disenfranchised to the exclusion of the core membership – Federation study: Middle-aged and older Jews seek communal engagement • They haven’t done this in the past??? – Hey kid, do you want to be a rabbi? Facing a shortage, Conservative movement looks to teens • Why ...

• There already is Secular religion in public schools – Jewish activists lead charge against inserting religion back into US public schools • The less, the better – What future for shul music? • Blasphemy Then and Now

by R. Gil Student I. Sefaria Controversy A minor controversy brewed recently when some people noticed that Sefaria provides readers a non-Orthodox Bible translation. This offers us an opportunity to have a long overdue discussion about what Sefaria is and is not, and how to use it properly (or not at all). But first, let us briefly explain what Sefaria ...

• D Fischer – Almost half of American ‘Jews’ actually are not Jewish • M Taragin – The Age of Pessimism • Y Rosenblum – Running Against the Grain • Absent fathers major reason why Christians are declining: study

• Avodah/Areivim: The Model for Online Discussion of Torah Topics • Most US Pastors Use Armed Congregants as Church Security • A visit with a Torah sage, Rav Dovid Cohen