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Francis Nataf
Francis Nataf
Francis Nataf
July 20, 2018, 6:54 pm
Francis Nataf
Mourning the loss of mourning
What if you couldn’t give any presents to the one you love — wouldn’t that destroy some aspect of your relationship?
Francis Nataf
May 18, 2018, 1:57 pm
Francis Nataf
Ruth didn’t have to convert to ‘Orthodox Judaism’
If you really understand Jewish law, you know that legal categories do not address every case in the same way
Francis Nataf
April 18, 2018, 3:19 pm
Francis Nataf
A talmudic tale tells us to let go of the old Israel
The famous story of Honi the Circle-Maker has a profound hidden message for what it means to be 70 years old
Francis Nataf
August 23, 2017, 12:23 pm
Francis Nataf
Robert E. Lee and the month of Elul
Humanity’s cultural yardstick of values is fickle; better to uphold the personalized standards of God
Francis Nataf
July 23, 2017, 2:48 pm
Francis Nataf
A time for Jewish rage
It’s an ethical obligation to the Palestinians to insist that they reclaim their humanity before God
Francis Nataf
July 3, 2017, 1:31 pm
Francis Nataf
Let’s give the Kotel to Chabad
The Lubavitchers would get it right because they truly seek to help, and hence accommodate, all Jews
Francis Nataf
June 19, 2017, 12:00 pm
Francis Nataf
A talmudic take on political rage
The tale of Rabbi Eliezer Hagadol asks what happens when you’re clearly in the minority — and you’re clearly right
Francis Nataf
April 10, 2016, 1:45 pm
Francis Nataf
Bernie Sanders, come for Passover
The presidential hopeful should visit Israel now to demonstrate how much he truly cares about the Jewish community
Francis Nataf
December 20, 2015, 2:46 pm
Francis Nataf
To the leaders of Open Orthodoxy
The new approach has great strengths, but don’t be so open-minded, as the saying goes, that your brains fall out
Francis Nataf
December 10, 2015, 3:17 pm
Francis Nataf
10 good things about Open Orthodoxy
The new approach has its problems, but first a look at its strengths: vibrancy, honesty, spirituality and more
Francis Nataf
September 8, 2015, 3:17 pm
Francis Nataf
Today’s Israel can be a refugee haven
Those who are convinced the Jewish state can’t possibly absorb migrants are living in Israel’s insecure past
Francis Nataf
July 28, 2015, 2:03 pm
Francis Nataf
Pollard’s all-American act of conscience
The adamant US refusal to free the jailed spy reflects an old and unjustified suspicion that Jews are disloyal
Francis Nataf
April 24, 2015, 2:19 pm
Francis Nataf
Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein: Orthodoxy’s alternative
The nuanced vision of the renowned rabbi who died this week remains all too marginal in today’s conversation
Francis Nataf
March 9, 2015, 2:18 pm
Francis Nataf
The elections of bad and worse
There is no party in Israel today that truly taps into the depth of the Jewish religious experience
Francis Nataf
January 12, 2015, 5:14 pm
Francis Nataf
Why France matters
The vanguard of secularism that taught the West how to live in liberty must now show it how to live in security
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