Rabbi Yonason Goldson – The Jewish Press

Not all conspiracy theories are equal...

Are Disney classics endangering your children?

Certainly, there are many more substantial stories in the headlines than baseball and tacos. But the refinement we bring to our little conversations helps fashion the quality of our discussions about weightier matters.

The universal lesson of Chanukah through the prism of fluted glass

Airplane armrests: the next battleground in the gender war?

In contrast to popular misconceptions, cremation is neither environmental nor dignified. Burial in the earth reaffirms the eternal cycle of creation, birth and rebirth, passage and transition.  It reinforces our awareness of the eternity of the human soul and the unending mission of the Jewish people

Life copying art...unfortunately

If we insist on holding our leaders to unreasonable standards of perfection, we will place our fate in the hands of two-dimensional caricatures who lack both the wisdom and the experience to lead.

Republican PR blitz presumes that the party loyalty of American Jews can be weakened by a two-pronged attack.  First, invoking American policy toward Israel. Second, attributing the resurgence of anti-Semitism to liberal political policy. Both assumptions are flawed,...and here’s why

Look into the darkness, to search for the source of faithful illumination that can guide us along the path of spiritual integrity.  The flames of the Chanukah menorah shine bright out of the deepest darkness, when the days are shortest and the cold of winter has descended.

Love him or hate him, you have to admire Donald Trump’s genius for manipulating the media.  What’s even more impressive is the way he’s been beating them at their own game.

After a seemingly endless parade of financial, political, and sexual scandals, we finally arrived at the most ignominious one of all:  this week’s government shutdown.

What happened to Ben Shapiro? Not what you think. Not what he thinks.

Signs that the partisan pendulum is finally swinging back?

In a sense, we are prisoners of our biology and experience.  But that doesn’t mean we can’t find the key to freedom.  And that’s what free will really is all about.

Independence Day reflections on leadership, vision, and courage

The battle for the soul of Western Civilization will be won when voices of rational debate and civil discourse join together against ideological extremism on both sides of the aisle.

Take back the narrative and turn the tide

For a better life, look for--and forward to--the unexpected

It was not devotion to G-d that took the lives of innocents in a Jersey City grocery store.  It was self-serving distortion of G-d’s teaching masquerading as religious ardor while revealing itself as disdain for the divine spark that resides within living soul.

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