Why does the Talmud teach that the sin of dishonest weights and measures is worse than the sin of sexual transgression?

Bruce DeBoskey explores the connections between corporate philanthropy and corporate citizenship -- and why both are good business.

A Yom Ha'atzmaut Guest Blog by Michael Steinhardt.

BJN caught up with Bruce DeBoskey just before Passover for one of our "4 Questions" interviews about creating a consultancy around philanthropy.

Stan Kreis discusses Peter Beinart's call for a boycott of Jewish settlements.

Bruce DeBoskey explains why Venture Philanthropy is like Venture Capital... and why it's not.

A recent joyous occasion brought the larger conversation full circle for Morah Yehudis.

The African-American former Chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party, Robin Winston, leaned into me and asked me pointedly, "well, what would you have him do?"

To what extent is Halakha relativistic? Foster individuality and autonomy? Rabbi Goldman looks at Talmudic precedents with an eye to contemporary relevance.

Young people, viewing the world through a different lens than their parents and grandparents, are raising money, giving it away, and creating inspired outcomes.

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.