Paul Eidelberg, Author at Conservative News and Views

Genesis tells how the universe, and the world, began.

Science and Torah in parallel

Astronomers and astrophysicists are revealing, with increasing frequency, the compatibility of the Torah with the most recent discoveries in science. A recent scientific article in one...

World news9 years ago

Deborah and Joan of Arc?

Back in 2000 I wrote a piece, “Israel Needs Another Golda.” Remember the witticism about Golda, that she was the only man in Israel’s Cabinet? Well,...

The Ten Commandments, foundation stones of liberty

Guest Columns9 years ago

Anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism: introduction

Innumerable volumes have been written on anti-Semitism – meaning hatred of Jews and Judaism. It really started more than 3,000 years ago after the Sinai revelation....

The Constitution, which sets forth the principle of rule of law, defines what is unconstitutional, and guarantees freedom of speech and other liberties of a Constitutional republic, and also describes the impeachment power. (How many know of the Jewish roots of this document?) Hypocrisy threatens Constitutional government. Could Israel use a constitution like this? More to the point: would a Convention of States save it, or destroy it? (Example: civil asset forfeiture violates the Constitution.) Quick fixes like Regulation Freedom Amendments weaken it. Furthermore: the Constitution provides for removing, and punishing, a judge who commits treason in his rulings. Furthermore, opponents who engage in lawfare against an elected President risk breaking the Constitution.

Constitution9 years ago

Constitution: source of ideas

What, in fact, were the sources of the Founders’ ideas regarding the Constitution?

Guest Columns9 years ago

Mushroom diet and ideas

The ascendancy of Islam – please, no adjectives – is the punitive correction for the West’s rejection of the Creation narrative of the Book of Genesis,...

Yale Graduate School. Yale recently disbanded its anti-Semitism initiative. More to the point, the moral relativism that rules here and elsewhere is the cause of much of what ails America today.

Education10 years ago

Obama: educated derelict

Americans spend an enormous amount of money for the education of their youth. Hardly anyone draws a connection between the content of this education, as articulated...

Obama interferes in Israeli elections. Does he also use taxpayer money to pay for it?

Media10 years ago

‘LIERS’ against Israel

Who are the “LIERs”? The LIERs are a consortium of Libertarians, Internationalists, Egalitarians, and Relativists. These LIERs dominate the news and other opinion–making media.

The Knesset: 61 years of parliamentary democracy, and counting, in Israel. But do its members properly love their country? Or does the dysfunctional way Members are chosen, with their election rules that do not conform to Jewish law, lead to a pointless scramble for patronage? A new Manifesto calls for radically reforming the way Israel picks Members of this body. Furthermore, terms like right and left, as in other parliaments, mean little when no one will articulate first principles.

Guest Columns10 years ago

Mentality of the left

In the writings of Moshe Chayim Luzzatto we find perhaps the profoundest explanation of what blinds the Left and increasingly Israel, namely, the quest for peace...

The Torah, one of many documents defining a Jew, the nature of God, and the elements of faith. It could be the blueprint for a Godly Israel. And a key source of the rule of law in Israel--or it should be. Is the ingathering of the Jews in the offing? But these Jews must turn to God, Whom their leaders, and the public in Israel, seem to have forsaken. (What parallels exist between Judaism and George Lucas' Jedi ideal?) It names many heroes, including Abraham and Sarah.

Ignite the Pulpit10 years ago

Theological error

Pope Francis would be on more solid theological grounds if he were to call upon Muslims to apologize for their sins against the Jewish people as...

Ignite the Pulpit10 years ago

Jacob Emden on Christianity

Rabbi Emden(1697–1776) was one of the leading Torah authorities of the past several centuries. Historians of the rabbinate have often compared. him to Maimonides, both having...