“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.” Ironically that came from Eleanor Roosevelt....
On 24 June 2015, one Tyler Francke posted “Ten theological questions no young-earth creationist can answer.” In his own comment space, several young-earth creationists did answer...
Same sex marriage, from a political perspective, is the outgrowth of egalitarianism. Egalitarianism transforms the democratic principle of equality into an ideology to which all other...
James Madison, the father of the American Constitution, held that separation of religion and politics would purify religion and remove a bitter source of conflict in...
Kurt Lewin, the 20th century German-American psychologist, is recognized as the founder of social psychology – the study of how the personality, attitudes, motivations, and behavior...
“Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.”...
Today I am going to construct a dialogue between two Jews, Jerry and Joshua. The telling of this may be a bit awkward but nonetheless informative.
The Midrash states: “There are three whose names preceded [their birth] – Yitzhak, Shlomo [King Solomon], and Yoshiyahu.” As Rabbi Dr. Akiva Tatz points out in...
Nikita S. Khrushchev said, “Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.”
This past Shabbat, all across the Jewish world, the yearly Sabbath Torah reading began anew with Bereshit, the beginning of Genesis. With the recent reconciliation agreement...