Joshua Stanton is Rabbi of East End Temple in Manhattan and a Senior Fellow at CLAL - The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. He serves on the Board of Governors of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, which liaises on behalf of Jewish communities worldwide with the Vatican and other international religious bodies.
We fight for attention. We fight for resources. But perhaps we fight most over our own sense of legitimacy – that we belong, deserve a good place in society, and are worthy of regard. This holds...
How do we gain in skill? For that matter, what is a skill? Many assume that it is an ability that comes from tireless practice. Others connect it to formal...
Exodus 18 begins with a verse that for years has stopped me in my tracks: “Jethro, priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and...
In my family, we have the concept of the “Stanton shortcut.” It pertains to an unnecessarily long path that my father, my brother, or I take when going from one...
The unprecedented precedent of doing the unthinkable
In creating space for each other, we create communities with space for us.
Insofar as our society extols the virtues of unconditional love, our tradition calls the very premise into question.
Struggle as a path towards growth
Tearing down that which holds us back
Removing the gaps between faiths that can lead to Antisemitism