Author: David Brooks In the 1970s, the gift shop at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was an informal affair. It was staffed by about 300 mostly elderly volunteers, and there were cash drawers instead of registers. The problem was that of the shop’s $400,000 in
Read more →Breishit 29 The Destruction of Shechem: Is Killing Ever Kosher? (Ch. 34) Two years ago, after many months of Palestinian violence, the Israeli army invaded Jenin, a center of terrorism in the West Bank. The world was outraged—Israel going after terrorists in a crowded refugee camp would be sure
Read more →If you love goodness and hate evil, this is a tough time to stay sane. Israel has killed Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the Hamas terror leader, and almost every nation in the world and the nations’ theoretical embodiment, the United Nations, have condemned Israel for doing so. World
Read more →Author: Dennis Prager, Joseph Telushkin If there is no G-d, then there can be no objective to do good and evil, and so ultimate ,purpose to our existence. For these reasons, among many others, a committed Jew (a) may not deny G-d’s existence, (b) must struggle with
Read more →Premise: There either exists an Absolute, Objective Scale of Morality, or there exists no system of morality whatsoever (i.e., there is no such thing as “subjective” morality – it is an inherent contradiction in terms). PART I — Consequences of the Denial of this Absolute Objective Scale Introduction: This
Read more →Breishit 19 (Ch. 20) In the 19th century, a group of German scholars started what developed into modern theories of Bible criticism. Discovering (!) that the Torah uses different names to refer to G-d, they came up with the theory that the Torah was really put together from different documents
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