It's gone too far.

It's just gone too far.

For the last few days, ever since they caught Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second Boston bomber, there's been a phenomenon sweeping the nation. Not everyone to be sure, but enough.

Look on the HuffPost Religion section, and you will see articles...

I died once.

Well, I don't know if it was technically death.

But it was one of those things they call an NDE: a near death experience.

I was going through a manic episode. It happened before I knew I was bipolar, so it crept out of nowhere.

And so,...

Ever since I wrote a blog post about gay marriage, one question has been roiling my brain.

What would I do if my child was gay and he or she wanted to get married?

It was comparatively easy...

I remember when I looked at him and I argued, the way he looked at me, almost like he was sad. And I remember thinking, how dare you, how dare you be sad for me.

I was a secular guy in college, and I had spent the last few months...

I remember when I discovered Taoism. It was the most mind-blowing philosophy I had learned until that time. I remember how during freshman year my professor asked us to read the entire Tao Te Ching, and how it so deeply affected me.

Almost immediately afterward, I decided that I was...

This is the second in a series comparing the attacks on Columbine and Sandy Hook.  Read the introduction here.

As reports of Columbine spread around America and soon took it by storm, the country began a process of investigating...

"Oh, it's just such a beautiful world, isn't it?"

There are a group of shiny, glowing, blond people that want us to believe this line. They want us to look at the world, to look at the trees and the stars and see how great and amazing everything is.

I...

*Click*

*Whirl*

"Dear me. This is me. I just want you to know something. You're ugly. Also, you don't work hard. You're irresponsible."

*Click*

Somewhere in the world there is a person with that recording playing. Playing constantly in their head.

That person, he or she doesn't even know that...

America has a surprising obsession.

Ever since the internet has come about, it seems, and especially since the widespread use of Facebook, grammar has suddenly exploded on the scene as a cool new passion.

The class that everyone seemed to hate in middle school has now become cool. Facebook pages...

It's that time of every four years again.

The time when the politicians come out of the woodwork to say hello to us normal folk.

They're out on the stump, they call it.  Giving speeches, having conventions, telling us all how they're going to make our lives better.  How they're...

Recently, some articles have come out reporting that some Haredi or "ultra-Orthodox" Jews in Mea Shearim, the most religious area of Jerusalem, have started selling glasses that blur their owner's vision. The goal, apparently, is to help men who might be tempted by women dressed immodestly on the street...

Life can seem so boring sometimes. We spend most of our waking hours doing routine tasks. Going to work, paying bills, watching TV, whatever. Life is full of the routine, and very rarely has the exciting, the deep or the incredible infused in it.

It's no wonder, then, that so...

I hate the word orthodox.

Ever since I became a religious Jew, I remember feeling uncomfortable with being labeled as orthodox. 'Orthodox' implies rigidity, implies rules imposed and abided by without question, implies being judgmental and biased.

The truth is that, for me, becoming an "orthodox" Jew meant the exact...

We live in a world, where, on the face of it, having children, let alone a lot of kids, seems to make no sense. Why tie ourselves down, spend money and lose our freedom?

It's only after I became a Hasidic Jew and had my own child that I've really...

Six months ago, Matisyahu shaved off his beard. And while it made headlines in the mainstream press, few realized how much this seemingly simple act had rippled through the religious Jewish community. Jewish blogs, newspapers and more buzzed with the news of what Matisyahu had done.

Now, Matisyahu has done...