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• Being Single In A Marriage-Obsessed Community Is Tough — Whether You’re Jewish, Muslim Or Mormon
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/press/being-single-marriage-obsessed-community/

  …the term ‘shidduch crisis’ is used to describe a surplus of single community members. “I find that term deeply offensive,” said Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, executive director of JOFA, whose Facebook…

• Shoftim: “The Space-Time Continuum”
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/shoftim-space-time/

  …the Biblical prohibition against moving a homeowner’s fencepost to morph into a grander rule beyond its original intent. Thus, the term “Hasagat G’vul” was used in Sifre (Devarim, 188) in…

• Analysis of a Narrative related to Cultural Resiliency using a Framework for evaluating Personal Narrative
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/08/analysis-of-a-narrative-related-to-cultural-resiliency-using-a-framework-for-evaluating-personal-narrative/

  …can be reframed and expanded to encompass the traumatic experience, they can foster posttraumatic growth. Over the past three decades, an extensive body of research has emerged exploring the connection…

• Comparison to Holocaust is Offensive
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/press/comparison-to-holocaust-is-offensive/

  …inflammatory and insulting to the memories of the millions who perished in the Holocaust. … the term concentration camp, because of this horrific historical association, has become Holy, or set…

• What is the Problem With Baruch Spinoza?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/12/what-is-the-problem-with-baruch-spinoza/

  …term that rings oxymoronic to some if not most Orthodox readers. Cardozo is not blind to Spinoza’s shortcomings. He finds in Spinoza’s thought an intellectual arrogance, and that Spinoza’s thought…

• Yom Kippur – Committing to Torah
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-committing-to-torah/

  …[2] Deuteronomy 27:26. [3] Rashi on Deuteronomy 27:26 (“כאן כלל את כל התורה כולה וקבלוה עליהם באלה ובשבועה”). [4] Ramban on Deuteronomy 27:26. Note that Ramban is explaining the term…

• Identifying Evil: Reflections on the October 7, 2023 Israel-Gaza War
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2024/03/identifying-evil-reflections-on-the-october-7-2023-israel-gaza-war/

  …cruelly, and painfully as possible.   THE EXTREMIST ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY Hamas proclaims that it exemplifies Orthodox Islam. But its absolutist version of Islam, a military term meaning “surrender,” officially to…

• Vayeshev – Somewhere Out There
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/vayeshev-somewhere-out-there/

  …that promises to soothe the loneliness of a young man betrayed by his brothers and cut off from his home. Again the Torah says: “וַיְמָאֵ֓ן.”[5] Yosef refuses. He chooses long-term…

• Parashat Shemot
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-shemot-2/

  …also searching the future genealogy of Egyptian taskmaster to see whether he would have any worthy offspring. Having concluded that nothing worthwhile would ever issue forth from this man, Moshe…

• Parashat Ki Teitzei
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-ki-teitzei/

  …we integrate the very first mitzvah (according to Maimonides), that of Believing in God, into our own personal search for spirituality in the 21st. century; how the mitzvah of Kibbud…

• The Sefira Restrictions
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/the-sefira-restrictions/

  …recordings, which could not have been forbidden when the practice first evolved. Innovative stringency has become acceptable, even if the innovation violates Halakhic principle, because stringency valorizes religious heroism which…

• Parashat Bereishit: A Revolution in Thinking
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-bereishit-a-revolution-in-thinking/

  …can literally see stars being born. The great search in modern physics, from Einstein to today, has been for a unified theory, one theory that would account for the entire…