Sightings Articles
Memory Full: Boomers and the Art of Never Going Away
How an aging generation is preserving its youthfulness ... forever...
January 20, 2020
A Disgraced Rabbi Re-Emerges and His Past Is There Waiting for Him
The urge for a reckoning of past wrongs draws victims from the shadows of anonymity....
February 18, 2016
After Voyeurism Scandal, Questions About Orthodox Rabbis' Control of Female Conversions -- David Gottlieb
Barry Freundel, the senior rabbi at Kesher Israel, a Washington, D.C., modern Orthodox synagogue, was fired by his congregation last week, almost two months after his arrest on charges of voyeurism. Rabbi Freundel’s arrest caused a fault line to appe...
December 11, 2014
Can Israel Reinvigorate Jewish Identity At Home and Abroad? A Major Initiative Says "Yes" — David Gottlieb
“The Prime Minister’s Initiative,” ...
May 1, 2014
The Physics of Adherence: How A Recent Study Overlooked the Post-Secular by David Gottlieb
The increasing pace of secularization in industrialized nations has led to predictions of the demise of religion from numerous academic perspectives. The most recent example was unveiled at this year’s meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) i...
May 19, 2011
November 4, 2010 Tikkun Olam: Jewish Sacred Repair, Secular Action or both?
In an attempt to address the well-documented and growing gulf between the economic fortunes of the rich and poor--and almost in tandem with the onset of the recession and the collapse of the housing market--Rabbi Jill Jacobs published a book on the J...