If any one thing has united Jews throughout the ages, it is anti-Semitism. Yet in this era of increased polarization and division, it seems we cannot even agree anymore on what constitutes anti-Semitism. Click here to read Rabbi Weinblatt’s full article “It’s a life raft to those who hold fast to it” as it appeared in the nationally …
Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy’s latest book, “Never Alone” is essential reading for anyone who cares about or is interested in the Israel-Diaspora relations. His Jewish identity provided him a sense of purpose and of belonging and was the key to being free in a totalitarian state that sought to control everything, including one’s thoughts. The book …
The Importance of Truth This week’s Torah reading features a curious anomaly which has been the subject of rabbinic commentaries throughout the ages. When Moses tells the Pharaoh that God will slay the firstborn of the Egyptians, he says it will occur kehatzot, which means literally “somewhere around midnight”, or “at approximately midnight”. Rashi points out …
Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt Rabbi Weinblatt addressed the disturbance in our Nations Capital on January 2, 2021. Below is a copy of his remarks: I, like most of you have many thoughts about what happened this past week. One of my earliest memories of going to the US Capitol was when I …
Avraham avvenu, Abraham is often considered and referred to as the father of the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, along with the other two religions whose origins are in Judaism: Christianity and Islam. We read in this week’s Torah reading about his death, as well as the death of his wife Sarah. And this past …
a JNS article by Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt Dear Colleagues, I thought this article I wrote in response to former NYT Jerusalem correspondent and Forward editor Jodi Rudoren’s piece about Erekat’s treatment in an Israeli hospital deserved a response. She mentions “a single Israeli protest” and a few members of Knesset who objected to Erekat being treated …
My article in a recent issue of ejewishphilanthropy.com discusses how Jewish educators and rabbis can speak with our kids about their responsibility to participate in the democratic process. Are We Teaching Our Kids How To Vote? by Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt My grandmother, who came to this country in the early 20th century to escape the pogroms …
The outpouring of emotion and adulation for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away on erev Rosh Hashana has been remarkable. What is it about this petite Jewish woman that has touched such a nerve in people around the country? Many respect and admire the woman who broke so many barriers and broke so many glass ceilings. Others …
Here is the third of my three sermons for the High Holidays. The first two dealt with the Coronavirus crisis and a Jewish response to it. I concluded the series with this one about how our world and we will and should be different going forward. In homiletics class in Rabbinical School we were taught …
To hear and see Rabbi Weinblatt’s sermon, on YouTube, click here: To read the sermon, see below: Surviving Corona – Part I Welcome to Rosh Hashana 5781, our first and hopefully, last and only virtual High Holiday services. While I say that it is Rosh Hashana, I am not sure I can say …
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