Articles & Blog Posts by Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel

• Tel Aviv on Fire
• Israel and the Palestinians in the time of coronavirus
• Of Viruses and Choices
• Should A Coyote Be Indicted?
• Uncut Gems: Loopholes for Depicting Jews (and Others)?
• Game Show Heaven / Game Show Hell
• Bernie Sanders, Jack Benny, and Anti-Semitism
• Psychology Scuttles Spirituality in Two New Movies
• Three Recent Movies Speak Truths About the Middle East that ‘Activists’ and Solons Ignore
• Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
• Spike Lee's BlacKKKlansman undermines its own message
• The Bible and Clergy According to CBS
• The Convent and the Strip Club: A Jewish Perspective
• Indignation: Defying Philip Roth?
• Child Terrorists on NCIS: Los Angeles
• X-Men: Apocalypse
• Quantico: ABC’s FBI and Israel
• An NCIS Finale (and Israel)
• Spiritual Realism In Recent Movies
• <em>Mad Men</em>'s Religion
• The New Age Theology of <em>Selma</em>
• God, Man, and Partying: The Seth Rogen Trilogy
• The Politics of Ridley Scott's <em>Exodus</em>
• No Peace, at Best Truce Talks with Hamas and Fatah
• Kerry's Destructive Deadlines
• TV's NCIS on those Sinister Israelis