Stephen Hawking and the Golem
There’s a world of difference between the ability to create and the power to control
View ArticleHow the World Just Escaped Extinction
This is not fake news. Just a short while ago, the world narrowly escaped a catastrophic event, one which could well have caused its total destruction. To my mind, it should have received far more...
View ArticleJews and political suicide
To tell the truth I’m not surprised at the resurgence of anti-Semitism – not only across the world but even here in the United States. Anti-Semitism is an ancient sickness long ago predicted by the...
View ArticleIf the White House invites you, Judaism says go
The baseball World Series champions who stayed away from the ceremony because they don't like Trump missed the point
View ArticleBen and Jerry don’t do themselves any favors
To put it mildly, last week’s interview on national TV with the two cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s was nothing less than a disaster. Ben Cohen and his ice cream empire’s partner, Jerry Greenfield,...
View Article‘No children, please!’– The childless-by-choice movement
How will they answer the divine test question: 'Did you attempt to imitate God’s role as creator by fulfilling the commandment to be fruitful and multiply?'
View ArticleWhen history rhymes
What can Israel do when the enemy states clearly that massacre remains its goal and Jewish death is the only end that will satisfy?
View ArticleWhy do they hate us?
I first asked this question when I was a young boy, fleeing the Holocaust on the last boat out of Europe. Now I have an answer
View Article‘Take the win’
Three words capture the profound pathos of Jewish history – past and present. Three words convey the tragedy of the world’s oppression of the Jew. They are the unspoken yet self-understood prejudice...
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