denominations

The Endangered “New York Jew” Jack Wertheimer, Commentary. If one insists on indulging in the dubious exercise of identifying types of Jews who are “undeserving,” it behooves us to ask who, in fact, is most worthy of communal support: those who are failing to raise and nurture a successor generation of Jews or those who are producing and educating enough Jewish children to make up for the indifference of the rest? 

Observant at the Olympics Miriam Shaviv, Times of Israel. There are under a dozen Jewish chaplains of all denominations at the international games this summer.  “Perhaps we as rabbis need to see if we can get involved in sports chaplaincy.”