Martini Judaism Archives - Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/category/opinion/columns/jeffrey-salkin/ Driving essential conversation about how religion and beliefs shape us and our world. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 21:38:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://religionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Favicon-100x100.png Martini Judaism Archives - Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/category/opinion/columns/jeffrey-salkin/ 32 32 Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s life work celebrating Judaism summed up in new book https://religionnews.com/2024/09/06/greenberg-triumph-life/ https://religionnews.com/2024/09/06/greenberg-triumph-life/#respond Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:20:13 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4164114 (RNS) — It is the book that you need to read right now. It will change your view of Judaism and of the world itself.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/09/06/greenberg-triumph-life/feed/ 0 I weep for the hostages and their families. I weep for all of us. https://religionnews.com/2024/09/02/hostages-hersh/ https://religionnews.com/2024/09/02/hostages-hersh/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:54:41 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4164511 (RNS) — Our pain. Our rage. Our losses.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/09/02/hostages-hersh/feed/ 0 Remembering the Peekskill riots, a caution for the right and left https://religionnews.com/2024/08/27/peekskill-riots/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/27/peekskill-riots/#respond Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:28:42 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4161076 (RNS) — Decades before Charlottesville, there was Peekskill. You can still hear its echoes.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/27/peekskill-riots/feed/ 0 The war comes home — to a Brooklyn bookstore https://religionnews.com/2024/08/23/brooklyn-bookstore-leifer-bachman/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/23/brooklyn-bookstore-leifer-bachman/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:13:29 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4163153 (RNS) — It is the antisemitism of the cool, the chic, the beautiful people. We need to call it out.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/23/brooklyn-bookstore-leifer-bachman/feed/ 0 When a temple disappears https://religionnews.com/2024/08/20/temple-miami/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/20/temple-miami/#respond Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:02:58 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4161867 (RNS) — A sad story about a synagogue in Miami. It could happen anywhere — and it is.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/20/temple-miami/feed/ 0 When the reverend became a rabbi https://religionnews.com/2024/08/16/when-the-reverend-became-a-rabbi-2/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/16/when-the-reverend-became-a-rabbi-2/#respond Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:05:15 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4162093  Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A minister and a rabbi walk into a bar, and when they come out, they are the same person.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/16/when-the-reverend-became-a-rabbi-2/feed/ 0 When the reverend became a rabbi https://religionnews.com/2024/08/14/when-the-reverend-became-a-rabbi/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/14/when-the-reverend-became-a-rabbi/#respond Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:18:39 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4160903 (RNS) — Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A minister and a rabbi walk into a bar, and when they come out, they are the same person.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/14/when-the-reverend-became-a-rabbi/feed/ 0 A new Jewish denomination: Josh Shapiro-ism https://religionnews.com/2024/08/09/josh-shapiro-jews-judaism/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/09/josh-shapiro-jews-judaism/#respond Fri, 09 Aug 2024 17:02:27 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4161305 (RNS) — I am talking about the creation of a thick American Jewish culture firmly rooted in American life and firmly rooted in Jewish traditions.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/09/josh-shapiro-jews-judaism/feed/ 0 Josh Shapiro won’t be the veep. What are Jews saying? https://religionnews.com/2024/08/06/shapiro-walz-harris/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/06/shapiro-walz-harris/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:55:34 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4160955 (RNS) — Beyond American Jewish pride and nervousness, there is a deeper truth.

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2024/08/06/shapiro-walz-harris/feed/ 0 Is it morally acceptable to kill terrorists? https://religionnews.com/2024/08/05/israel-terrorist-assassinations/ https://religionnews.com/2024/08/05/israel-terrorist-assassinations/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2024 18:59:58 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4160486 (RNS) — Should we rejoice, be sad, be happy but subdued about it? Should we feel all of these emotions? Or none of them?

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