Gary Rosenblatt
Gary Rosenblatt
A lawsuit alleges that the Orthodox Union, located on Lower Broadway in Manhattan, above, knowingly allowed a rabbi’s predatory behavior to continue at its youth group decades ago. (Wikimedia Commons)
November 29, 2021, 5:51 pm
Orthodox Union and its youth group sued over past abuse by Baruch Lanner
Rabbi convicted of sexually abusing teenage students
By Gary Rosenblatt
Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, seen in a video from Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, where he was senior rabbi from 1985 to 1996. (Screen shot from Vimeo via JTA)
May 26, 2021, 10:04 am
A rabbi’s accuser wanted me to tell her story. Here’s why it took 20 years.
Journalist Gary Rosenblatt explains why he did not publish a story about a high level Reform rabbi and his sexual improprieties two decades ago.
By Gary Rosenblatt
Synagogues, like Beth Shalom in Pittsburgh, have been mostly empty since the onset of COVID-19. Gary Rosenblatt contemplates why it feels so strange to reenter synagogue life. (Photo by Jim Busis)
May 5, 2021, 9:57 am
What will it take for me to go back to synagogue?
I haven’t been back to shul, and I’m not sure why. But the weather is getting warmer and I’m running out of excuses.
By Gary Rosenblatt
Keshira haLev Fife, a kohenet (Hebrew priestess), is the founder and leader of Kesher Pittsburgh, an independent, post-denominational Jewish community. (Courtesy of Keshira haLev Fife)
February 19, 2021, 12:49 pm
Innovative Jewish groups seek respect from the mainstream
Pittsburgher Keshira haLev Fife is among a group of innovators espousing broader paths to Jewish wisdom, “not just through the front door.”
By Gary Rosenblatt
(Photo from public domain)
November 27, 2020, 1:05 pm
The challenge for Orthodox media
"The toxic political climate of the moment finds editors and publishers caught between facts and sentiment."
By Gary Rosenblatt
August 12, 2020, 11:43 am
What Adin Steinsaltz and Pete Hamill taught us all
The impact a writer and religious scholar made on one man 's life
By Gary Rosenblatt
September 11, 2019, 12:01 pm
Former Obama speechwriter finds her own voice, in Judaism
Sarah Hurwitz finds meaning in Judaism
By Gary Rosenblatt
Gary Rosenblatt
March 6, 2014, 7:58 pm
Fuel for debate over rabbis’ role
By Gary Rosenblatt
Gary Rosenblatt
February 9, 2014, 10:38 pm
Family and dignitaries remember Edgar Bronfman  
By Gary Rosenblatt
Gary Rosenblatt
January 2, 2014, 3:23 pm
Israel Outreach: Broad vs Deep
By Gary Rosenblatt
Gary Rosenblatt
December 4, 2013, 6:58 pm
Shavit: ‘We’ve lost our narrative’
By Gary Rosenblatt
Gary Rosenblatt
November 6, 2013, 3:56 pm
Jew vs. Jew in reverse
By Gary Rosenblatt
Gary Rosenblatt
October 16, 2013, 5:45 pm
What Pew does — and doesn’t — tell us
By Gary Rosenblatt
Gary Rosenblatt
October 3, 2013, 1:30 pm
And it was morning and it was evening, the seventh game
By Gary Rosenblatt
Gary Rosenblatt
August 29, 2013, 4:28 pm
Dialogue goes both ways
By Gary Rosenblatt
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