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Shmuel Klatzkin

Shmuel Klatzkin

Shmuel Klatzkin is a rabbi who previously served as senior editor at the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and writes and teaches extensively.
by | Sep 16, 2021

Empowered by the 18th Amendment, the federal government intervened in the lives of millions of Americans. Those who pushed for…

by | Sep 11, 2021

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year holiday, bids those who observe it to disconnect from electronics for its duration. While…

by | Sep 4, 2021

Malachi gave voice to a supreme imperative — we humans, being prone to stray, must continuously readjust and return so…

by | Aug 29, 2021

My southwestern Ohio town has seen a series of attention-grabbing demonstrations by hospital employees. They object to the hospital’s imposition…

by | Aug 28, 2021

That is a political truth that is very, very old. In most of the ancient world, information was tightly controlled….

by | Aug 21, 2021

America invaded Afghanistan in order to destroy the power of al-Qaeda, whose treacherous attacks had just destroyed thousands of civilian…

by | Aug 20, 2021

Before, during, and after the self-inflicted disaster of appeasement, Winston Churchill criticized Neville Chamberlain’s policy in the starkest language. He…

by | Aug 13, 2021

My father-in-law, Alexander Guttmann, was an erudite Talmudic scholar. He was trained in academic critical scholarship (what that once meant…

by | Aug 8, 2021

While militant ideologies can appear as a source of stark clarity in an often-muddled world, their excesses only serve to…

by | Aug 1, 2021

Following the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979, Wendell Berry penned an essay which examined how the integrity of…

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