Nishma Policy - Jewish Identity: The Tension of Definition, Unity and Choice

NISHMA: Policy is devoted to analyzing policy issues within the world of Torah.

I have just uploaded the latest post, entitled Jewish Identity: The Tension of Definition, Unity and Choice which continues our investigation of the nature of Jewish identity.

I invite you to take a look...and comment.

Rabbi Ben Hecht

Nishma Policy: -- Confronting the Universal and the Distinctive

NISHMA: Policy is devoted to analyzing policy issues within the world of Torah.

I have just uploaded the latest post, entitled Confronting the Universal and the Distinctive, which continues our investigation of the nature of Jewish identity.

I invite you to take a look...and comment.

Rabbi Ben Hecht

Nishma Policy -- Changing Lifestyles

NISHMA: Policy is devoted to analyzing policy issues within the world of Torah.

I have just uploaded the latest post, entitled Changing Lifestyles, which continues our  investigation of the important issue of movement from Orthodoxy, generally referred to as 'Off the Derech'.

I invite you to take a look...and comment.

Rabbi Ben Hecht

Nishma Policy - Beyond 'Off the Derech' -- Why is Someone Committed?

NISHMA: Policy is devoted to analyzing policy issues within the world of Torah.

I have just uploaded the latest post, entitled Beyond 'Off the Derech' -- Why is Someone Committed?, which we hope will serve as a beginning of an investigation of this important issue.

I invite you to take a look...and comment.

Rabbi Ben Hecht

Nishma Policy - Jewish Nationalism and the Challenge of Its Uniqueness: Yeshiva Students and the Draft

NISHMA: Policy is devoted to analyzing policy issues within the world of Torah.

I have just uploaded the latest post, entitled Jewish Nationalism and the Challenge of Its Uniqueness: Yeshiva Students and the Draft, which reflects on how shifts in God-consciousness in Jewish nationalism is affecting Israel.

I invite you to take a look...and comment.

Rabbi Ben Hecht

Nishma Policy: Agunot -- The Real Issue is Beit Din

NISHMA: Policy is devoted to analyzing policy issues within the world of Torah.

I have just posted the latest post, entitled Agunot -- The Real Issue is Beit Din, which contends that there is a major difficulty in how the agunah problem is being approached. We are not correctly presenting it within its context of an issue in beit din

I invite you to take a look...and comment.

Rabbi Ben Hecht

 

NISHMA: Policy -- Orthodoxy and Homosexuality

Originally published 12/30/10, 6:24 pm.
Our new blog, NISHMA: Policy, is devoted to analyzing policy issues within the world of Torah.

The latest post concerns Orthodoxy and Homosexuality and attempts to look at the issue from a holistic approach, identifying sub-issues as part of the greater picture.

We invite you to take a look...and comment.