Jordan Friedman

Faith-based economics

The current standoff over the debt limit will probably get resolved, most likely at the 11th hour.

Jewish skin

I met A. B. Yehoshua in the summer of 1991. In a lecture about classical Zionist ideas, he added his own rhetorical flavor. Jews of the Diaspora have a Jewish skin, he said, but only by living in Israel can one become Jewish to the core.

Being ‘woke’ is the first step in teshuvah

As Maimonides teaches, being “woke” is a spiritual objective, causing one to wonder why the concept is viewed by some with such emotional antipathy.