Emes Ve-Emunah

Some of Mishpachca’s ‘man in the street’ interviewees
There was an interesting ‘man in the street’ interview inMishpacha Magazine last week. The idea was to randomly ask Jews who were notparticularly religious how - or even if October 7th changed theirlives Jewishly. While their goal was to interview only...

Dr. Nemat Shafik testifying at yesterday's congressional hearing (Forward)
Emily Tamkim is a case study in ignorance about both academicfreedom - and especially Judaism. She should be embarrassed by her comments on both issues
In her opinion piece in the Forward, Tamkin first quotedNara Milanich, a professor of history at Barnard College who said the following:...

Columbia University President Nemat Shafik (JTA)
This time the answer was theright one. It’s too bad the first three times (in a row) the answer wasstupid, foolish, and outright wrong. The question asked this time at a congressional hearingabout antisemitism on college campuses was the same as it was...

Pastor John Hagee speaking at the November March for Israel (Forward)
Jay Michaelson is an open and proud gay man who is an advocate for the LGBTQ+community. He also is identified as a rabbi in his bio.
I have no idea where he was ordained. But ifhe engages in male to male sexual activity typical of most gay people, then his rabbinic ordination is worthless – even if it is Orthodox. There is no way a man can call himself a‘teacher of Torah’ which is...