Jeffrey Salkin
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin is an activist for Jewish ideas. A columnist, popular lecturer, and thought leader in the American rabbinate, he is the author of numerous books on Jewish spirituality and ethics. His new book on the future of liberal Judaism in America will be published in early 2024. His accompanying podcast, Martini Judaism, is available on Google, Apple and other sites.
All Stories by Jeffrey Salkin
Why do they hate the Jews?
By Jeffrey Salkin — February 4, 2020
(RNS) — A recently deceased philosopher had an answer to that eternal question. It's not pretty.
Why Jews like Mike
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 28, 2020
(RNS) — There are two Jewish presidential hopefuls. They are very different people.
God save the boomers!
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 23, 2020
(RNS) — Every church or synagogue wants young members. True, but ...
We need these “Jewish” movies now
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 15, 2020
Time for the Jewish Academy Awards.
We are all Jews here
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 7, 2020
(RNS) — When Jew haters knock a yarmulke off a Jew's head, that's my yarmulke, and my head, as well.
Stop blaming ‘them’ for antisemitism
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 31, 2019
(RNS) — This “new” Jew hatred is neither from the left or the right. It’s far more complicated than that.
Goodbye, Baba Ram Dass
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 23, 2019
(RNS) — Why did Richard Alpert become Baba Ram Dass? It is the story of American Judaism.
Trump made us ask, again: Who are the Jews, anyway?
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 18, 2019
(RNS) — The president's executive order seeks to protect Jewish kids on campus. But we have to do our part as well.
To the Jews who applauded Trump
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 10, 2019
(RNS) — Trump uses anti-Semitic themes and Jews love it. What is wrong with this picture? Everything.
Anti-Semitism is a public health crisis
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 4, 2019
(RNS) — Let's start treating Jew hatred the way we treated cigarette smoking. Make it taboo.
Was Mister Rogers the messiah?
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 27, 2019
(RNS) — Why the explosion of Fred Rogers-mania? Because the children's TV host is the antithesis of everything in this country today.
What about those Israeli settlements?
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 20, 2019
(RNS) — Evangelicals are cheering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's announcement that the U.S. no longer considers Israeli development of the West Bank illegal, but some Jewish values take precedence over land.
God’s Uber driver in Pittsburgh
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 11, 2019
(RNS) — In a modern Hasidic story, Melchizedek appears as an Uber driver in Pittsburgh.
God’s Uber driver in Pittsburgh
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 11, 2019
(RNS) — In a modern Hasidic story, Melchizedek appears as an Uber driver in Pittsburgh.
When a Jewish magazine dies
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 5, 2019
(RNS) — Sh’ma, the 40-year-old journal of Reform Jewish thought, utters Sh’ma, the deathbed prayer. Don’t mourn too much. It did its job.
