Month: August 2018

• The Trauma of the Jew of Conscience

  (originally published in Jewschool) The Jew of conscience is in pain. We are in pain when we are told by family, friends, peers and Jewish communal leaders that we are…

  

• Onkelos vs Empire: a parable of revolutionary Judaism

  The Talmud tells a remarkable tale of the conversion to Judaism of a prominent Roman general named Onkelos, and the futile attempts by the outraged Roman Emperor Hadrian to dissuade…