Symposium
Wrestling with Creation: Judaism, Science, and American Freedom
By Miriam Siroky “In the beginning of God’s creation of the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) In 21st-century America, the Genesis narrative is read against competing theories: The Big Bang (which posits a 13.8 billion-year-old universe), and a Darwinian view of humanity (as one contingent branch on…
Two Cheers for Freedom: A Call for Jewish American Communal Responsibility
By Simcha Rosenberg As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, it’s worth asking a question that doesn’t have an easy answer: has American freedom been good for Jewish people? The quick instinct is to respond emphatically in the affirmative. But dig a little deeper, and one realizes…
Success Without Surrender
By Leah Gershgorin A few years ago, my mom sat our family down to watch a movie about a Jewish immigrant family trying to make it in America. They settled in Baltimore with empty pockets, great ambitions, and a tight-knit Ashkenazi culture to ground them. As the years…
