Rabbi Steven Abraham

A Jewish Girl Walking Through Europe
A father's letter to his daughter, before she crosses the ocean her ancestors once crossed the other way.
Jun 24 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
The Kashrut of the Curse
Rabbi Jill Jacobs gave the demonization of pro-Israel Jews a rabbinic hechsher. She cannot disown the meal now that the world is eating it.
Jun 23 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
The Stragglers at the Rear: Columbia, the Courts, and the Anti Zionism Exception
How a federal court is carving out an anti-Zionism exception to American civil rights law.
Jun 22 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
The World Korah Couldn't Imagine
Parshat Korah, and what it would mean to live in a society where every argument was conducted for the sake of Heaven.
Jun 21 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
Blame Bibi. It Is Easier Than Blaming the Neighborhood
Netanyahu is a power-hungry man. He did not invent the furnace he governs beside.
Jun 18 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
The Adjective and the Noun
We grew up debating whether we were Jewish Americans or American Jews. Today, we are simply wondering if we have a political home at all.
Jun 17 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
Magid Loves Judaism. It’s the Jews He Can’t Abide
On Shaul Magid’s ‘Reactionary Renewal,’ and the oldest love that has no use for Jews
Jun 17 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
The Generation That Did Not Go Up
A fourth wartime summer begins under a ceasefire only days old. The question is no longer what this costs Israel's tourism economy, but who will be left…
Jun 16 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
Yavne Was Not a Suicide Note
Peter Beinart has built a theology of surrender, and he wants you to call it courage
Jun 15 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
It Is Not Good to Be Alone
The Democrats are making their own bed. The Jewish left is supplying the sheets
Jun 15 • Rabbi Steven Abraham and Jill
The Rabbinate of 2040: Relational Judaism or Nothing
We refined the syllabus and forgot how to form a rabbi. There is still time to relearn — but not much.
Jun 14 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
Why Grief is Our Greatest Teacher
On Aaron's silence, the architecture of Jewish mourning, and the master teacher who instructed us without ever saying a word
Jun 14 • Rabbi Steven Abraham
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