by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Jul 21, 2010 | Opinion
I am a lover of God and a student of religion. I do my best to understand the nature of religion, and how it justifies the worst of which we are capable as well as calls us to the best. There are people of faith on all sides of an issue. Religion is what we interpret...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Jul 7, 2010 | Opinion
I feel a lot thinner today. Not that I’ve lost any weight, but I read in the newspaper that Tennessee is tied with Alabama for the second fattest nation in the country. Whoo-hoo! Mississippians are still fatter, but not by much. The cool thing about being a...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | May 13, 2010 | Opinion
I was invited to speak at a community worship service in Nashville recently. The goal was to bring the community together after the devastating flood that took so many lives and caused over a billion dollars in damages. This is what I said: There is only one religious...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Jun 22, 2009 | Opinion
“How should Jews treat their Arab neighbors?” That was the question posed in the Ask the Rabbis section in the May/June issue of Moment Magazine. Beloved Chabad Rabbi Manis Friedman gave this answer: “I don’t believe in Western morality,...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | May 14, 2009 | Opinion
In September 2008, Synagogue 3000, an organization focused on revitalizing synagogue life, commissioned a survey to measure Jewish spirituality among American Jews. The fact that they couldn’t define “spirituality” didn’t seem to faze them....
