Not to be alarmist, but listen carefully to this interview with Naftali Bennett....

Longtime pro-Palestinian apologist Norman Finkelstein seems to have had it with the "cult" of the ISM and the BDS movement. Read all about it.

The insightful Talmudic sages developed the notion of how an otherwise normal person can act in a religiously insane manner. Lessons for today's world as well.

It may come as a surprise to students of Judaism that Classical and Hassidic rabbis held a more nuanced and complex attitude towards sin than evinced in Biblical literature...

A BJN 4 Questions Interview (with a bonus question) for Rabbi Chaim Miller, guest this Shabbat at Chabad of NW Metro Denver.

"There are three ways to change the world: change China, change California, or change Walmart."

Rabbi Goldman devotes his first BJN post to discussing classical vs. contemporary examples of Tikkun Olam, and explores how the one underpins the other.

Froma asked Rabbi Aryeh ben David of Ayeka to post this on the BJN because "I think that it is vital at this time that readers be exposed to a more open-minded Orthodoxy."

It all started the summer before my last semester at UW-Madison...

The Boulder Jewish community I have come to know and love was never on more amazing display than this week.

In my final weeks here, I wonder if I have done as much as I could have. I suppose that is the great question of everyone who goes abroad to serve.

Rabbi Rose, of Har HaShem, responds to Rabbi Goldfeder and Soloway on distinctions.

Sylvain Hayoun, who grew up in Tunisia, reflects on recent developments there.

Rabbi Benjy Brackman joins a long list of rabbis from almost every stream of Judaism in condemning the behavior of the small group of fanatical Jews in Beit Shemesh.

Follow-up to Rabbi Goldfeder's post earlier this week -- a dialog between Rabbi Goldfeder and Rabbi Seidenberg next Monday night.

Rabbi Soloway responds passionately to Rabbi Goldfeder's article on distinctions and unity.

When we confuse co-existence with sameness, then trouble starts to brew.

What does Tebow-mania have in common with Matisyahu? Rabbi Benjy Brackman explains.

Rabbi Gavriel Goldfeder shares perspective on the age of becoming bat mitzvah.

People reveal themselves over time. That was the sage advice I got from an old mentor. NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman just revealed himself in spades.