Tag Archives: ask a jew

I do think some kinds of anger, especially those that are more personal and less political, may be difficult to express for some Jews.

A conversation I had recently raised a question that seems very relevant to our politically polarized, extremism-plagued times: Under what circumstances is arguing with a Holocaust denier a lost cause?

I’m not always a fan of Jewish attorney and author Alan Dershowitz, but his refutation of the “Jews control the media” stereotype, which he wrote for HuffPost back in 2010, takes an approach I think is pretty effective.

In accordance with Reform Judaism’s penchant for cheekiness, Rabbi Paul Kipnes has written that “God is a four-letter word” according to Torah.

In Yiddish, the word Mensch means a good or honorable person. Being a mensch is the goal in Judaism.

God didn’t rest because he had to, but rather exhaled in satisfaction.