Are Jews Part of the Global Village? Updating the Paradigms of Tzedekah (Lehrhaus, May 2025)

The “Children of Prophets” – Vox Populi as Literal Vox Dei (Hakira, Fall 2023)

Rav Kook, Nietzsche, and Jewish Intellectual Pluralism (Tradition, Summer 2022)

The New Koren Tanakh: the Maalot—Magerman Edition (Jewish Action, May 2022)

Must Creativity and Rigor be Either/Or? Koren Series’ Joshua and Judges by R. Michael Hattin (Lehrhaus, June 2021)

Zionism and Judaism: A New Theory by David Novak (Tradition, Winter 2018)

Can the Church Teach the World about Sukkot? (Times of Israel, Oct 2024) Religious traditions must pool their resources. Judaism can give its derivatives more access to the root traditions…, the Church can give over the power of those teachings to its vast audience.

The Subversive Jewish Wisdom Aristotle Would Not Hear (Jewish Press, Jan 2025) Rabban Gamliel’s ability to look at his gentile slave as a possible source of enlightenment was likely rooted in a Jewish teaching that was so subversive that they had to keep it from Alexander the Great.

Finding God’s Benevolent Hand (Jewish Press, Nov 2023) Like many people of faith, I yearn to see God’s presence in the world. And like most religious Jews, I see the return to Jewish statehood as an expression of that presence. 

Here’s what Israel’s friends can really do to help (Times of Israel, Feb 2023) If you are a friend of Israel, do not add fuel to the fire… If you want to play a constructive role, support leaders and institutions that are promoting unity.

A time for militant moderation (Times of Israel, March 2023) Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…

— W. B. Yeats

How secular Israel became so religious (Times of Israel, Dec 2021) What draws outsiders to adapt a large part of the Sephardic lifestyle and outlook is a rootedness that provides an unspoken connection to one’s people.

Jonathan Sacks, morality and Facebook algorithms (Times of Israel, Oct 2021) Before blaming a company for fomenting partisan hate, the late rabbi’s teachings would have us take a good look at ourselves in the mirror.