Rabbi Avi Shafran

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

If morality and ethics are rendered meaningless, how's a principled atheist supposed to respond to injustice?

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Like soft drinks and poison, anti-Semitism comes in various flavors and strengths.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

One who sees only random forces behind why we humans find ourselves here is ultimately bound only by his wants.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Has the sanctity of human life become passe?

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Don't let a recent study about enhanced intellectual ability among Jews go to your head.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The essential outrage of "Holocaust on Your Plate" was not that it injured feelings, but rather that it equated human beings with cows, pigs and chickens.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Holocaust memorials usually fail to convey something vital: Europe's Jews didn't just die; they lived, too.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Not a chance. Adversity -- wherever it strikes, whomever it takes and whomever its spares -- always has a reason, even when it cannot be discerned.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The Greeks thought that physicality was a primary goal of man.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Contrasting our problems with the difficulties previous Jewish generations had to endure puts some things in to perspective.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

As a quadriplegic, Christopher Reeve demonstrated heroic powers.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The fighting in Fallujah may have deep biblical roots

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Maimonides' mystifying rodent and the limits of science.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

In the Netherlands emotional pain is sufficient legal justification to assist in one's suicide. What is happening to the immeasurable value in human life?

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

No matter how vulnerable our physical fortresses may be, we give harbor to neither despair nor insecurity.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The Jewish Sabbath is a blackout of sorts.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The concept of "bar mitzvah" has drifted incredibly far from its true meaning in these materialistic times.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

The recent National Jewish Population Survey reveals a shrinking Jewish people. Is the solution more numbers?

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

An interfaith superstar?

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

With the recent assault against the Jewish people and Jewish history, Tisha B'Av takes on a special poignancy this year.

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Would it really have been enough?

by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Ending a human life is not a medical decision, it's a moral one.