Politics

Who is responsible to pay for health care? Is health insurance a personal obligation or a community responsibility?

How can we most fairly apportion the communal burden? Who should pay, and how much? And who decides where this money should go?

Modern governments use their authority to tax their constituents and pay for public works and social services. How did Jewish communities understand their roles in furthering the welfare of the people? What is the Torah view on how a society can express c...

Is wealth a mark of sin, a sign that a person has greedily taken too much and necessarily impoverished others? Is poverty a sign of laziness, an outer indication of a poor character? We explore the Jewish view on why there is inequality in wealth, and wha...

Moses was worried that his group of leaders and “visionaries” would fall into the alluring trap of elitism. It wasn’t a prophecy—it was just a hunch. What he did know was that Joshua would succeed him as leader of the Jewish people...

It was precisely because Aaron did not seek power or prestige that he was chosen to a position of leadership. Now try telling that to our wannabee politicians…

Wow! He did it! He restored confidence in the markets. Let's punch him in for a second term... now! He is the one our nation has so desperately been waiting for!

They sat in the congressional chamber that is divided down the middle by an aisle. And providing easy access to the restrooms is not the primary function of this passageway... Defeating the people on the other side of the aisle – and the ideas they repres...

Mr. Shaul Schiff of the Israeli “Hatzofeh” neswpaper visits the Rebbe: The impression I get from your recent writing is that your work is not decreasing, G-d forbid, but is also not increasing. You must double your achievements! This dollar is not a bribe...

Ari Goldman, then a reporter for The New York Times, recalls several encounters that he shared with the Rebbe, as well as an unexpected telephone call shortly after one particular visit. (Late 1980s)