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Is It Right?

Mar 17, 2017 By Yehudah Webster | Commentary | Ki Tissa

Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular鈥攂ut one must take it simply because it is right.

鈥擠r. Martin Luther King Jr., 鈥淎 Proper Sense of Priorities鈥�

The US Health Care System: What Does the Future Hold?

Feb 14, 2017 By 91快播 | Public Event video

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 took a giant step toward universal health insurance coverage in the United States. Although it has been quite successful in accomplishing that goal, it has remained highly controversial. The new Administration is intent on repealing the law and replacing it with an alternative model.  

Why is health care reform so challenging? Why does 鈥淥bamacare鈥� look as it does? Could alternative plans under consideration achieve the same gains? And what are the political prospects of those alternatives? Prominent health policy expert Dr. Sherry Glied describes the past, present, and possible future of health reform efforts in the US.

Taking Care of Ourselves and the Stranger

Feb 24, 2017 By David Rosenn | Commentary | Mishpatim

This week鈥檚 Torah reading contains instructions for taking care of one鈥檚 own: 鈥淚f you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, do not act toward them like a creditor; exact no interest from them鈥� (Exod. 22:25).

Deuteronomy is even clearer, stating, 鈥淵ou shall not charge interest on loans to your countrymen, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. But you may charge interest to a foreigner…鈥� (23:20-21).

Power and Love

Feb 17, 2017 By Rachel Rosenthal | Commentary | Yitro

[P]ower without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

鈥� Martin Luther King Jr., 鈥淲here Do We Go From Here?鈥� (1967)

From Generation to Generation Activism is Alive!

Feb 3, 2017 By Jonathan Lipnick | Commentary | Bo | Pesah

My son Noah and I like to take walks together. It affords us time to connect鈥攖o talk about food, sports, relationships, and politics, and, once in a while, to explore an existential question.

鈥淚f I had never met my grandfather,鈥� Noah once asked me, 鈥渋s it true to say that I will never really know him?鈥�

Times of Challenge

Jan 13, 2017 By Stephanie Ruskay | Commentary

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

鈥擬artin Luther King, Jr, Strength to Love (1963)

Being Raised from the Pit

Dec 23, 2016 By Simeon Cohen | Commentary | Vayeshev | Hanukkah

Three years ago, Jewish novelist Dara Horn published her fourth novel, A Guide for the Perplexed. Borrowing its title from Maimonides鈥檚 quintessential work of Jewish philosophy, the book follows two sisters, Josephine and Judith, as they struggle with issues of faith, reason, memory, and sibling rivalry. Josephine and Judith serve as stand-ins for Joseph and Judah; in a sense, the novel functions as an extended midrash on a key biblical incident which can be found in this week鈥檚 parashah, Vayeshev: the casting of Joseph into the pit at the hands of his brothers. Ultimately, Horn鈥檚 Josephine and the biblical Joseph arrive at the same conclusion: through suffering, which both characters experience in their respective tales, one can ultimately come to achieve greatness.

Whose Words?

Dec 23, 2016 By Jeremy Tabick | Commentary | Vayeshev

[W]e push through the crowd, heading somewhere. Bodies clear frame and we see the HOMELESS MAN sitting on a park bench. His sign reads: 鈥淭HEE END鈥�. The Homeless Man smiles into camera. We continue forward and in a slow, mysterious, subtle fashion his face slowly transforms into the very pleased, FACE OF GOD, who winks and we CUT TO BLACK.

鈥擲cript for Bruce Almighty by Steve Koren, Mark O’Keefe, Steve Oedekerk