“Having had enough of Donald Trump, voters in 2022 chose to go with experience in their candidates. That’s exactly why Florida governor Ron DeSantis was successful in his reelection”
I really enjoyed Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s “Guestlines” article this week about questions without answers. I’m the kind of teenager who seeks the truth, and has a question on just about every statement that comes out of a teacher’s mouth.
Sometimes I like the answers I receive, but other times I’m left more confused than before. It’s unsettling to receive a half-answer to a hashkafah question. So I beg teachers, if you aren’t sure what to answer me, please simply say that you don’t know.
With respect and appreciation to all caring, dedicated high school teachers, who may never know the tremendous impact they have on their students’ lives,
An anonymous student
In Rabbi Guttentag’s article, headlined “Conservative with Reservations,” he made the correct and well-noted point that Torah and American conservatism are not necessarily identical in general nor necessarily in perfect agreement on any particular issue. Therefore, we, as Torah Jews, should look to our sources in Torah shebichtav and Torah shebe’al peh to see how we should approach any given issue, rather than conservative editorialists of other-than-Torah background.
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