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.
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.
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.
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.
For our own sake, no one should ‘die like a dog’
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 28, 2019
(RNS) — How we deal with his death, and the postures that we bring to that death, shape the fate of our civilization and make it worthy of defense against the likes of ISIS.
On Sukkot, think of the Kurds
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 17, 2019
(RNS) — While, as Tom Petty sang, we don’t have to live like refugees, we do have to remember what it means to live like a refugee.
Your rabbi has sinned
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 6, 2019
Religious professionals screw up in all sorts of ways. Forgive them.
