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Mar 23, 2018, 10:13 PM

The seeds born of protest

Hundreds of high school and middle school students from the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia staged walkouts and gather in front of the Capitol in support of gun control in the wake of the Florida shooting February 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Olivier Douliery)

Like bygone protests on the Sabbath, the gun violence march ignites a conversation about morality and halacha

Sep 24, 2017, 9:14 AM

Our Spousal Dance with God, and Ourselves

A couple of weeks ago I was reading the Sunday New York Times and came across an article by Eli Finkel, a psychology professor at Northwestern. Professor Finkel researches marriages—what makes them work and not work, and how American...

Apr 9, 2017, 6:32 PM

Passover in Sodom: Which Neighbors Do We Love?

We typically don’t read Genesis 19 looking for connections to the Exodus from Egypt. But it turns out there are many: Lot bakes matzah for his guests (and Rashi comments that he does so because it was Pesach); chaos...

Mar 10, 2017, 1:32 PM

Evacuating school from a bomb threat: A personal reflection

On what goes through a father's mind when he's just been evacuated from his son's school

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About Me

Rabbi Josh Feigelson, PhD is Dean of Students in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, and Founder of Ask Big Questions, a project of Hillel International.