Dear Steve and Bill, Many of us have watched in amazement and dismay the increasingly bitter primary battle ensuing between you. You were once close...
Rachel Adams | Posted 05.10.2012
Equating Down syndrome with suffering, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach praises the "doctors who work tirelessly so that this disease can be purged and children came into the world healthy." Down syndrome is not a disease.
Chaim Levin | Posted 05.03.2012
To compare Savage to people who are filled with such hatred is absurd and reminiscent of the disturbing trend to misrepresent anti-bullying activists as bullies themselves.
Robert J. Asher | Posted 04.19.2012
The hope is that we don't become so wedded to a given belief that we insulate ourselves from introspection and a willingness to say "I was wrong" when warranted by the facts.
Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 04.04.2012
He isn't merely a perfect icon to admire but an example to follow in how to fully engage one's capacity for relationship with God.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.23.2012
I pledge in my campaign not to add to the growing partisan divide. I actually hate it. I love the United States of America. I don't want to live in China or Russia where, for all intents and purposes, there is one party.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.24.2012
Thursday I had what was probably the most unpleasant TV interview of my life on Canada's Sun News Network. Interviewed by host Michael Coren about my book Kosher Jesus, I expected to be asked about the book's content. Coren quickly got to a question that seemed to be bursting from within.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.21.2012
To bring anyone's children into a public dispute about ideas is a gross violation. But for religious leaders to suggest that children will pay for a father's actions by not being able to marry is loathsome and grotesque.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.17.2012
Rothman's decision to put merit before political consideration showed character and integrity and I salute it. It also demonstrated a willingness to populate our officer corps with deserving men and women, whatever the political consequences.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.07.2012
Why would a Rabbi run for Congress? Because the problems we're seeing in our great nation are not caused by an economic downturn but by a values erosion, and I intend to be the values-voice that Congress so desperately needs.
Rabbi Jason Miller | Posted 03.31.2012
The only times Jewish people mention Jesus are when they stub their toe, miss the bus or tell you about their theater tickets to a certain Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera. Two new books will change that.
Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet | Posted 03.21.2012
Shmuley Boteach is an old friend, but even old friends can go awry sometimes. When they do, it behooves someone who cares enough for them to try and set them straight. Not to do so is to betray that friendship.
Eliyahu Federman | Posted 03.19.2012
Should Rabbi Boteach be offended that certain members of the Orthodox-Jewish community are renouncing a book titled "Kosher Jesus" and not giving him a platform to promote it? Of course not.
Posted 01.13.2012
By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service (RNS) Celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, spiritual counselor to Michael Jackson and author of the best-sellin...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 03.12.2012
That's the problem with the knee-jerk religious extremism. It dismisses nuance and seeks to create bogeymen.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 02.01.2012
How strange that half of the population seems prepared to squander everything important in the pursuit of material success, while the rest are content to gorge themselves on junk food in front of reality television. At issue is the most basic urge of all: hunger.
Kate Fridkis | Posted 11.17.2011
Parents are people, too. If they don't want to have more children, the world shouldn't require an explanation from them. It's their family, their lives, and yes, it's their money.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
The days of the rabbi as a weighty moral conscience are behind us. The rabbi as irritant has been replaced with rabbi as ego-massager. The rabbi's the with-it guy with whom you watch the ball game. Yep, that's one swell guy, our rabbi.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
Tis' the season to be jolly. Er.. if you're a Wall Street banker, that is, where billions in end-of-year bonuses are about to rain down like manna from heaven.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
On a fresh crop of newly released Nixon tapes, the president, who disliked Jews but helped rescue Israel during the Yom Kippur War, says of his senior Jewish advisers that they, like "most Jewish people, are insecure."
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
It takes one heck of a lot of chutzpa to tell gay men or women not to adopt when we refuse to do so ourselves. Surely leaving kids to drown without love is deeply immoral. But to stop others from rescuing them is an abomination.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
The worst of all character traits in the Jewish religion is to be an ingrate. Denying the goodness that others perform on your behalf leads to a closing of the human heart. No one wants to be taken for granted.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
Marital sex has become so pathetic that one out of three American couples are entirely platonic, while the remaining seventy percent have sex once a week for seven minutes at a time. This includes the time he spends begging.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
It is not just Chabad that has changed so dramatically over the past 16 years. I have changed as well. My love for Chabad is just as deep, but I am past my infatuation. I see flaws that need to be corrected.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
Evangelicals have marginalized themselves by taking a single prohibition in the Bible and elevating it to a single moral standard besides which all else pales. No wonder there haven't been any value-based issues discussed this election.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.30.2012