Rabbi Scott Kahn

Rabbi Scott Kahn is the CEO of Jewish Coffee House (www.jewishcoffeehouse.com) and the host of the Orthodox Conundrum Podcast and co-host of Intimate Judaism. You can see more of his writing at scottkahn.substack.com, where a version of this piece originally ran.

In Print / Op-Eds

11:05 AM

By Rabbi Scott Kahn

Politicians and students merrily dance to a song celebrating their dereliction of duty, and which openly denigrates the country which is paying them to stay in yeshiva. Meanwhile, soldiers risk life and limb, forgoing comfort and exerting themselves physically to an extreme, to protect the lives of those who call them heretics.

In Print / First Person

Scattered Reflections On The Past Two Days

By Rabbi Scott Kahn

Given the scale of the tragedy and the weight of the fear we all feel, our societal divisions that are normally so acute – the religious secular divide, the huge arguments between right and left – seem to have evaporated completely.