Rabbi Avi Shafran

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Canada's chilling descent into state-sanctioned suicide may be coming soon to New York.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

As New York moves closer to legalizing physician-assisted suicide, society is forced to confront an unsettling question: Do we truly value life—or only when it's convenient, painless, or profitable?

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Mr. Feuerstein is a legend in the corporate world. His company is now bankrupt and he doesn't regret a thing.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

A lawsuit is being filed against the Jewish people for recovery of property stolen during their exodus from Egypt. The Talmud tells of precisely such a claim lodged over 2000 years ago.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The "PETA Principle," the moral equating of animals and humans, is an affront to the very essence of Jewish belief.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Chanukah's uncomfortable message.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Maybe, just maybe, Judaism -- Jewish belief and practice as prescribed by the Jewish religious tradition -- is the key to Jewish continuity.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The best defense to the ambitious "Jews for Jesus" missionary campaign.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

I reject your apology because you have missed the point of why your post was so offensive.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

It is neither ethnic nor prejudice. Here are the facts.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Theodore Sorensen and the Jewish drive to change the world.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The recent arrest of two NY terrorists reminds us to give thanks to the Guardian of the Jewish People.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

An ancient prayer for contemporary times.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

He’s right about one thing: there is a Jewish plot.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

There are hateful people, but also simple-minded misguided ones. And they can change.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

I.I. Rabi, a Nobel Prize winning physicist who helped build the atomic bomb, had a deep and abiding relationship to his Orthodox Jewish upbringing.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Some peck away at the Holocaust, others embrace it.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

On that Jewish date in 1945, my late father-in-law, Mr. Yitzchok Yisroel Cohen, was liberated by American forces from Dachau.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Dara Horn's new book offers marvelous daggers of acerbic observations about being Jewish today.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Like Alexei Navalny, most of us are subjected to a daily barrage of propaganda. The key difference is that ours is self-imposed.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Every 17 years trillions of cicadas emerge from the ground as a unified mass. They're on their way.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

A nurse in England was charged with murdering 8 babies in the neonatal unit. The charges are shocking, but not surprising.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Appreciating the awesomeness of our immune system.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Using fake accounts on social media, white supremacists are fanning flames of hatred. They must not be allowed to succeed.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

“They don’t hate us as a people. They hate us because of our holy books."

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Rabbi Yosef Friedenson served as a human bridge between the Jewish world that the Germans destroyed and the new one that came into being after the Holocaust.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

An acclaimed exhibit about Auschwitz is stirring debate about essential lessons of the Holocaust.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Recent studies indicate that a significant segment of the immigrants who settled the New World were descended from Jews.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Evil harbors no static political allegiances.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Indispensable to the Jewish worldview is the idea that humans are unique, that we possess a spiritual component and that our actions are freely chosen.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Should false ads be banned?

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Free speech is a formidable responsibility to communicate the truth.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Rather than trying to disabuse people of the biases they may coddle, we must charge them to focus on individuals.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The Californian judge was right to overturn the law legalizing physician-assisted suicide.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The targeting of our two peoples should impel us to understand just how connected we are.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The extermination of the Jews was not a means to any end; it was an end in itself.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

When a $3.6 million bonus isn’t enough.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

New studies demonstrate how people thought to be in an irreversible “vegetative” state showed signs of full consciousness.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Even after death, the body is a holy vessel that deserves respect.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The recent beatification of Pope John Paul II highlights Judaism's unique basis of belief.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Meaning or randomness: confronting mutually exclusive worldviews on Yom Kippur.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

During the first days of the Jewish year everything matters.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Patients thought to be in a vegetative state were demonstrated to be hearing and thinking.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Getting to the essence of who we really are.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Whatever a Jew does reflects the entire Jewish people.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

What's the difference between nature and the miraculous?

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

It's not our Intelligence Quotients that count, but our Righteousness Quotients.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Do you know what act the law is addressing?

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Israel's first crematorium opens for business. What would Moses say?