Podcasts about reform jews

Vote now to have your voice heard in Israel! Rabbi Dreifus hosts Rabbi Lindsay Danziger, head of the Reform movement's World Zionist Congress Campaign, with Sally Rosenberg, one of Temple Israel's campaign co-captains (alongside co-captain Hannah Chanin). They discuss the importance of the WZC to the future of Israel and Reform Jews.    Vote Reform (Slate #3) in the 2025 World Zionist Congress Elections! Link

Welcome back to Just For This. Each week, host Rabbi Liz P.G. Hirsch (she/her) interviews women in leadership about women and leadership. Inspired by the story of Esther, we feature powerful stories of women who stand out in their fields, who have stepped up just for this moment.   Our guest this week is Rabbi Angela Buchdahl. She is senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City. She's the first woman to lead Central's Reform congregation in its 180-year history. She first joined Central Synagogue as senior cantor in 2006, and she was chosen by the congregation to be senior rabbi in 2014. We discuss the deep connections Jews have with each other around the world, the importance of ideological diversity, and why listeners should “Vote Reform” in the current World Zionist Congress election. Visit www.zionistelection.org to vote or www.vote4reform.org to learn more about the importance of standing up for our Reform values in Israel. By voting for the Vote Reform slate, you are standing up for a democratic and secure Israel and against our opponents who want to strip Reform Jews of their rights and funding. Voting is open through May 4. Vote Reform today. View the transcript here. Follow Just For This on instagram: @justforthispodcast

The weekly news analysis from I Hate Politics: Arlington County judge strikes down new zoning law allowing more housing. Gaithersburg approves a new redevelopment plan for Lakeforest Mall. Reform Jews for Justice members from around the country gather in Washington DC to protest the ongoing and expanding Gaza War. Musicians from Washington DC's own National Symphony Orchestra went on strike last Friday with surprisingly quick results. Unions come to cannabis stores. And more. Music from Washington DC post-punk band Grey Swift.

It is time to question why so many people raised in Reform Judaism become “anti-Zionists” and why many Reform Jewish spaces tolerate antisemitic rhetoric.

A new MP3 sermon from Household of Faith in Christ is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: What Reform Jews Believe Subtitle: The Faith Debate Speaker: Troy Skinner Broadcaster: Household of Faith in Christ Event: Radio Broadcast Date: 12/15/2013 Length: 26 min.

This week's podcast and blog begins with quotes from Rabbi Jaech's Friday night sermon following the horrific attacks in Israel. Rabbi Jeach reminds us that we carry the breath and spark of divine in us, and we cannot let that spark be snuffed out by hate, for if we do, who are we? Even when the task seems insurmountable, we are part of building a better world. That is our sacred mission.This link is to a blog post by Rabbi Wendy Pein that shares tangible actions we can take in this time of need: https://www.tinw.org/rabbi-pein-blog.html?post_id=1465541For our Torah Study this week, Rabbi Jaech reminds us that Reform Jews are not a movement that dogmatically follows biblical laws, although we do emphasize ethical laws. What is hoped for of Reform Jews is to study the laws, and then to make our own informed decisions. This week we look at choices in the foods we eat.The text of this podcast is available on our blog.If you like this podcast, you might enjoy the book Biblical Origins: The Political Intent of the Bible's Writers, by renowned Bible scholar Dr. S. David Sperling.

In this edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts Orly Erez-Likhovski, Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center. Erez-Likhovski is an expert in the Israeli judicial system and the reasonableness doctrine, which have been the target of a massive reform push by the far-right current ruling government.Erez-Likhovski helps listeners understand the controversy surrounding judicial reform, which has fueled massive protests and a historic level of civil unrest in the Jewish state over the last seven months.Having graduated from the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, clerked at the Israeli Supreme Court, and earned her master's in law from Columbia, Erez-Likhovski is a member of both the Israeli and the New York bar, and has argued multiple cases in front of the Israeli Supreme Court. She is, then, perhaps better equipped than most legal experts to explain the differences and similarities between the American and Israeli high courts, and why the right-wing push for judicial reform is far more dangerous than it sounds."It's definitely part of a much larger program or scheme or revolution or coup that the current government is pushing for," Erez-Likhovski says. "It's been one of the first things on their agenda: to take the Israeli court system and dramatically weaken it and politicize it. It's a very, very dangerous initiative."Since Israel famously does not have a constitution (for a variety of reasons), and therefore no process analogous to the United States' doctrine of judicial review (determining whether a law or policy is unconstitutional), the courts are often the last bulwark against efforts to institutionalize discrimination. Many of the 10,000 cases opened by the Israeli Supreme Court hears are petitions against governmental bodies on different cases of discrimination against Reform Jews, women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and Israeli Palestinians.An attorney at the IRAC in Israel since 2004, Erez-Likhovski was the director of the legal department of IRAC from 2014 to 2021. She led the legal struggle against discrimination on the basis of religious affiliation, gender segregation in the public sphere, and racial incitement. She helped abolish gender segregation on public transportation, break the Orthodox monopoly regarding the payment of salaries of state-employed rabbis, and disqualify racist candidates from running for the Knesset.While the Israeli Declaration of Independence enshrines the rights of "all its inhabitants ... irrespective of religion, race or sex," it does not have the strength of law that a constitution or a bill of rights would have. As such, the most significant tool the courts have to fight corruption and the implementation of discriminatory laws is what is called the reasonableness doctrine. It is what the right-wing government hopes to eliminate.In short, the doctrine allows the courts to strike down government and administrative decisions seen as having not taken into account all the relevant considerations of a particular issue, or not given the correct weight to those considerations even if those decisions themselves do not violate any particular law or contradict other administrative rulings. The doctrine has been crucial in protecting rights that are not specifically enumerated in Israeli law, but conservatives have long held that the doctrine allows unelected judges to legislate from the bench, intervening in the decisions of elected officials.

In this episode, Rabbi Dan Levin and Rabbi Ammi Hirsch discuss how to recharge Reform Judaism and how Reform Jews can reconcile a Zionist belief with the political turbulence in Israel.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bret Stephens spoke at Temple Beth El in May 2023 about the state of Israel as Israel celebrates its 75th birthday. If you had the chance to hear his conversation with Rabbi Dan Levin in person, you know how incredibly informative it was. If not, you can listen to this bonus episode - a recording of the live conversation they had as they tried to answer the following questions: What do the changes in Israel's government mean for American Jews and Diaspora Jews around the world? How is the uptick in global antisemitism related people's perception of Israeli politics and Israeli leadership? How are we as Reform Jews supposed to feel about Israel? What is the state of Israel as it celebrates its 75th birthday?

CCAR Chief Executive Rabbi Hara Person defends abortion rights, in the wake of Dobbs. Rabbi Hara Person is the Chief Executive of Central Conference of American Rabbis. She is the first woman Chief Executive in the history of the CCAR. As Chief Executive, Rabbi Person oversees lifelong rabbinic learning, professional development and career services, CCAR Press -- liturgy, sacred texts, educational materials, apps, and other content for Reform clergy, congregations and Jewish organizations -- and critical resources and thought leadership for the 2,200 rabbis who serve more than 2 million Reform Jews throughout North America, Israel, and the world. She was ordained in 1998 from HUC-JIR, after graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College (1986) and receiving an MA in Fine Arts from New York University/International Center of Photography (1992). Rabbi Person served as Educator at the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue from 1990-1996, and was the Adjunct Rabbi there from 1998-2019. She also serves as the High Holy Day Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Olam, Fire Island Pines, NY. Previously, she was the CCAR's Chief Strategy Officer. In that capacity, she oversaw communications, served as Publisher of CCAR Press, and worked on overall organizational strategy. Prior to joining the CCAR, she worked at the URJ, where she was Managing Editor of The Torah: A Women's Commentary, named the National Jewish Book Award Book of the Year in 2008.

Several weeks ago, during several bar and bat mitzvahs being celebrated at the egalitarian section of the Western Wall, about 50 Charedi young men interrupted their services. They blew whistles, screamed at the attendees, and ripped up their prayer books. Videos show them calling the worshipers “Nazis,” “Christians,” “animals,” “shiksas," and “Reform Jews.” In a similar-but-different story, Gil Tamary, a Jewish and Israeli Channel 13 journalist, recently snuck into Mecca, Islam's holiest city, has a total ban on non-Muslims entering the city. Tamary made it clear that he knew he was breaking the law. This event enraged both the government of Saudi Arabia and many Muslims worldwide. Uri and Rivky ask, are these stories as the same? Who are the "good" and “bad” guys, in either story? And ultimately, is it fair, and is it appropriate, to restrict groups of people from religious spaces? Lazar Berman: https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/lazar-berman/ Rabbi Scott Kahn episode about the kotel episode: https://jewishcoffeehouse.com/egalitarian-prayer-at-the-kotel-how-should-orthodox-jews-respond-121/  

Opening song - "Let There Be Love" by Noah Aronson; performed by Temple Israel Cantorial Soloist Happie Hoffman Find sermons, music, conversations between clergy and special guests, and select Temple Israel University (TIU) classes – easily accessible to you through our podcast, Torah to the People. Learn more about Temple Israel-Memphis at timemphis.org.

“Tikkun olam — repairing the world — is an outgrowth and an expression of Judaism itself,” says Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch. “But sometimes it seems to be the only value Reform Jews emphasize. All of us must do deeds and speak words not only of universal values, but also of Klal Yisrael — the principle of […]

 What is really at question is the American way of life. What is really at question is whether Americans already have an identity or are still sufficiently flexible to achieve one. This is a painfully complicated question, for what now appears to be the American identity is really a bewildering and sometimes demoralizing blend of nostalgia and opportunism. ––James BaldwinIn recent months, shows about Jewish thought and theology (Pretend it’s a City, Unorthodox) have populated Netflix’s “Trending Now” tab. But what does it mean to be an American Jew in 2021? Why are many Jews today turning towards Hasidism and more conservative forms of religion in a time of unprecedented secularism? Are spirituality and personal faith compatible with traditional Jewish precepts? Why is it the case that Jews have both benefited from and been victimized by white nationalism? And how does Zionism, Jewish nationalism, fit into this story?To think about these questions, Podcast Editor Josh Wagner spoke with Sam Shonkoff, Professor Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California as well as two of his students. Sam’s research delves into the intersection between secular spiritual practices and the contemporary Hasidic movement, especially in the thought of not-quite theologian Martin Buber. For Buber, religion was less about acting according to the letter of the law than cultivating a sense of “embodied theology” in the everyday––faith as less of a regulating authority than source of spiritual transformation (tiqqun). His students, Eva Sturm-Gross and Jonah Gelfand both took Sam’s Jewish Mysticism seminar at Oberlin College, and became fascinated with the downright CJS - People odd and weird mystics in Jewish thought. Eva is a junior from Vermont who works at a bakery and is majoring in Studio Art and Religion with a minor in Jewish Studies. Jonah just graduated from Oberlin last June and has followed Sam to the GTU and hopes to continue his personal and professional engagement with Jewish thought. Both Eva and Jonah grew up as secular Reform Jews, yet have decided to become more seriously devout. While their experience cannot speak for all American Jews, Sam, Eva, and Jonah tell a story about their return to a practical faith in a time of uncertainty and doubt.To find out more, listen to the episode on Podbean, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you usually find your podcasts! Links: Sam’s latest book on contemporary Hasidism, edited with Rabbi Ariel Evan Mayse: Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World The book on top of Sam’s desk at the time of recording this episode: The Obligated SelfMaternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought by Mara H. Benjamin Eva’s art InstagramMartin Buber’s I and Thou

Rabbi Rick Kellner has served as the senior rabbi and spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Tikvah since July of 2011. Rabbi Kellner was ordained as a rabbi in May 2007 at the Los Angeles campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion where he also received Masters degrees in Hebrew Letters and Jewish Education. Rabbi Kellner active in B.R.E.A.D (Building Responsibility Equality and Dignity) an interfaith justice organization in Columbus. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Ohio Religious Action Center a statewide movement for Reform Jews to seek justice on the state level and as the Chair of Continuing Rabbinic Education for the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Rabbi Kellner believes that Judaism can be experienced through the values of Joy, Community, Meaning and Impact. He believes in a community that is built on relationships. It is through our relationships with each other and the congregation in which we create a stronger sense of community. Rabbi Kellner grew up in New York and he attended the University at Albany where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. Prior to joining Congregation Beth Tikvah, Rabbi Kellner served as the Associate Rabbi of Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles. Rabbi Kellner and his wife Debra live in the Worthington area with their two beautiful daughters Zoe and Shira.

Jonathan Tobin, Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), joins Mark on the podcast today. In addition to his role of leading the JNS in its syndication of Jewish articles and essays to Jewish newspapers all across the country, Jonathan also writes articles, essays, or columns, for the JNS on a daily basis, which are almost always its best content. On top of all that, he is also a contributing writer for National Review and a columnist for the New York Post, Haaretz and other publications. The passage he has chosen to discuss is 1 Samuel 8:10. Jonathan begins by describing his discipline as a writer, and sharing his summary of the passage, its meaning for him, and its relevance to the 2020 American election. He and Mark then discuss its focus on executive powers, Theodor Herzl and the need for Zionism and a Jewish State, the need to conform in certain ways, and Samuel’s choice of Saul as king. They also examine Israel’s journey to becoming a holy nation, the two different Jewish votes, and Jonathan draws the episode to a close by sharing the two lessons he has learned about humankind. As you listen in today, you will quickly discover precisely why Mark considers Jonathan ‘one of the most consistently interesting, instructive, and enlightening columnists in America today’, and how his analysis of ‘Samuel and American political sociology’ in this episode offers many valuable lessons and insights so very necessary for these turbulent times. Episode Highlights: · Jonathan’s discipline as a writer · His summary of the passage and its meaning for him · Its relevance to the current American election · Its focus on executive powers · Theodor Herzl and the need for Zionism and a Jewish State · Conforming in certain ways · Samuel’s choice of Saul as king · Becoming a holy nation · The two different Jewish votes · The lessons about humankind that Jonathan has learned Quotes: “I don’t get to all the ideas that I have.” “We want to be like other nations…we need someone who can galvanize us.” “You are going to regret this.” “Samuel in a sense is the first Libertarian.” “We hear you, we still want the king.” “God is your king, you’re not like other people…you are a covenantal people.” “The Jews were never going to be…treated by others as normal, and will never behave normally.” “We have been struggling for more than 3000 years with this conundrum about how we need…normalcy, we need to be able to defend ourselves. In our own day, we need Zionism, we need a State of Israel, but we’re never really going to be normal.” “In order to be great, you have to do some things the same as everybody else.” “It means Israel should have an army and thus enable itself to be special.” “Universalism is the parochialism of the Jews. We’re never quite satisfied.” “We have this God that keeps asking us to be different, to be special – something that we struggle with, we resist, and yet we’re always drawn back to it one way or the other.” “There’s probably no two groups in America that vote differently than Reform Jews and Orthodox Jews.” “The dichotomy is actually growing…much like the rest of America which is becoming more partisan.” “People believe what they want to believe.” “If you will it, there is no dream.” 1 Samuel 8:10 Samuel reported all the words of the LORD to the people, who were asking him for a king. https://www.sefaria.org/I_Samuel.8.10?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en Links: The Rabbi’s Husband homepage: http://therabbishusband.com/ Mark’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgerson?lang=en The Rabbi’s Husband Newsletter contact: daniel@therabbishusband.com

Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers. Chris Phillips is Professor of English at Lafayette College and a scholar of historical poetics and the history of reading. He is the author of The Hymnal: A Reading History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018) and Epic in American Literature, Settlement to Reconstruction (2012), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance (2018). He is also the PI for the Easton Library Company Database Project, which reconstructs the usage of the first subscription library in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley. Dr. Phillips was a research fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia in 2016. This chat originally aired at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, October 1, 2020.

So there are Orthodox Jews, Conservative Jews and Reform Jews. Which one is more Jewish. A Rabbi has the answer

00:00 Dooovid on why Reform Jews in banking, Orthodox Jews as landlords 05:00 The Things They Say behind Your Back: Stereotypes and the Myths Behind Them, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=132337 15:00 Massive explosion in Lebanon 33:10 The IQ Taboo | Glenn Loury & Amy Wax, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLE67Z_YmSA 37:00 Doov takes a spiritual perspective on group differences 1:16:00 Islam and Religious Studies Post-9/11, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=133478 1:21:00 Oxford scholar Tariq Ramadan accused of rape by multiple women, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Ramadan 1:29:00 Sexual Consent In Talmud, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9yeSyzbhU 1:31:20 Tucker Carlson 1:46:10 Michael Tracey talks to Tucker about his journey around small town America to discuss BLM and policing 2:07:00 Richard says demography is not destiny, https://www.spreaker.com/user/altright/is-immigration-reform-pointless 2:32:50 RWW News: Michelle Malkin Says Proud Boys 'Deserve Medals' https://nypost.com/2020/08/03/youtube-censored-my-talk-on-policing/ Aaron W Hughes podcast: https://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/podcast/religious-studies-as-a-discipline/ https://newbooksnetwork.com/aaron-hughes-theorizing-islam-disciplinary-deconstruction-and-reconstruction-equinox-2012/ What's illegal in the boardroom is often fuel in the bedroom Daphne Merkin & Meghan Daum: Sex in the Age of Woke, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2eefIR2CQw Publicly, We Say #MeToo. Privately, We Have Misgivings., https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/opinion/golden-globes-metoo.html What can be done to stop trolls abusing female journalists? The Man With Two Faces;In an Orthodox Jewish World of Honor, a Fraud Case Shocks, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/16/nyregion/the-man-with-two-faces-in-an-orthodox-jewish-world-of-honor-a-fraud-case-shocks.html Channeling Jewish History Interview with Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsRBlTIdPxA Martin Luther King Day at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale (OO's flagship synagogue), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qNyV-Se4jg Daphne Merkin on Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow David Frum liked Weimer Tucker Carlson Sexual Obsession, Bad Boys, & Female Lust in the Age of Woke, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcZ2IFJ8vE4 Has #MeToo Become Just Another Puritanical Moral Panic?, JoAnn Wypijewski joins Danielle Crittenden, Emily Yoffe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICwq78N0A3s The Growth, Scope, and Spatial Distribution of People With Felony Records in the United States, 1948–2010 R. Moshe Weisblum, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzqb2_QVhJ4Nw-T0rqRnIRw Daphne Merkin: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-literature-can-mirror-our-complicated-desires/2020/07/31/624c4798-d14a-11ea-9038-af089b63ac21_story.html Lovemaps: Sexual/Erotic Health and Pathology, Paraphilia, and Gender Transposition In Childhood, Adolescence and Maturity by John Money, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130433 Perversion: The Erotic Form Of Hatred, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130652 Sexual Excitement: Dynamics of Erotic Life, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130650 The Growth, Scope, and Spatial Distribution of People With Felony Records in the United States, 1948–2010, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=133488 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storytelling_(film) https://forward.com/news/451636/mizrachi-reuven-death-threats/ https://askthebigot.com/2015/07/23/the-story-of-moira-greyland-guest-post/ http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2020/07/determinedly-enabling-our-enemies.html https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/why_children_of_samesex_couples_need_fada.html https://soundcloud.com/militant-de-lenfant/cogwatch-50-her-mom-was-a-lesbian-celebrity-and-now-shes-telling-all Polls, questions, super chats: https://entropystream.live/app/lukeford Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/

Rabbi Jonathan Singer delivers a sermon at the 6 pm service at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco, 01-24-2020 "To make change in that nascent polity, one does not have to do what Moses did in our Torah portion, bring on the plagues but with a partner like Israel, we can speak out , and participate in ways that are affirming and effective. This WZO election is a way to make a difference and give the message to Israel that we Reform Jews believe in a better future for all."

Parashat Ki Tisa features what is arguably one of Judaism’s most powerful teachings: no matter how busy you are, and no matter how important the task at hand is, you must rest. In this episode, Rabbi Rick Jacobs discusses the power and importance of Shabbat, and what Shabbat looks like for Reform Jews today.

An internationally renowned writer, lecturer, interfaith pioneer, Rabbi Eric Yoffie is president emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism, representing 1.5 million Reform Jews in the United States and Canada. He gives a brief history of Jews in America, talks about the "golden age" of American Judaism, from 1980-2010, and talks about the challenges and his hopes for the future of America Jews. Co-sponsored with the Worcester JCC, the Jewish Federation of Central Massachusetts and Temple Emanuel Sinai.

Charlie Sheen in lets it out against his hit TV show co-creator, Chuck Lorre in a fuzzy-brained anti-Semitic tirade in Hollywood... House of Dior's chief designer John Galliano goes on a drunken rampage in Paris, spewing love for Hitler and leaving a trail of slurs against Jews and Asians in his wake... As for Tommy Hilfinger...Fact or internet legend...Should the Jews destroy their Hilfinger jockey shorts? Also...A new, censored version of the Holy Bible for Catholics, and Pope Benedict re-affirms that "all" the Jews did not Kill Jesus in HIS new book... Plus...The Reform Jewish Movement in America gets on the forgiveness bandwagon, exonerating Glenn Beck, while Reform Jews from the former Soviet Union rebuild the Jewish community in Germany... And...Newly Jewish-by-choice Ivanka Trump's clothes come on aliyah to Israel...The palestinians say they will unilaterally declare a new state on Israeli soil by September of this year...with full international support... All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

Kashrut, or keeping kosher, is often something we don't think about in Reform Judaism.  Yet, perhaps we as Reform Jews need to be at the forefront of teaching what it means not just to eat by this word, but to live by it.  With the horrible conditions in Postville, IA and the lack of condemnation from those who follow the dietary laws of kashrut, it is a reminded that we need to follow the moral lessons of kashrut and what it means to live by them today. UPDATE: Glad to see Richard Joel, President of Yeshiva University take a stand.  Click here for article.