Rabbi James Ponet
Rabbi James Ponet
Recent Stories
Westheimer and Ponet: Learning how best to love
How fortunate we Yale people are! For several years now, we’ve marked an annual “Sex Week At Yale.” Naturally, sex is on our minds year round, but this week offers us an opportunity to talk in a focused way about love, relationships and intimacy. If our experience in the college seminar we co-teach on the family in the Jewish tradition is any indication, questions about sex, love, marriage, desire and fulfillment constellate into the most pressing issues that undergraduates face.
It’s time to rethink role of campus chaplain
Maybe the University deserves and requires a new kind of figure to serve as University Chaplain.
Redefining shelter from the storm(s)
As we ponder the fate of a million fellow Americans suddenly forced out of their homes for an indeterminate amount of time by Hurricane Katrina, we do well to consider once again deeply what it is we mean when we say "home." What do you mean when you...