Sunday, October 31, 2010

Settlements Are Not the Issue, Abbas!

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I am glad that Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin is able to see the settlements argument for what it is: a red herring.  Last month, Mahmoud Ab...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Is There a "Right to Die" In Judaism?

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Euthanasia has always been one of those tricky situations in biomedical ethics. The Religious Right purports that permitting euthanasia woul...
Monday, October 25, 2010

G-d Is One, Not Three

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I've been reading The Limits of Orthodox Theology by Rabbi Marc Shapiro, which has given me the opportunity to re-evaluate Maimonides...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Parshat Vayera: W.W.A.D? A Lesson on Hospitality

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As I had demonstrated my drash last year for Parshat Vayera , the destruction of Sodom did not come through homosexuality, but rather throug...

Looking Back and Looking Forward: Assessing the Great Recession

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A couple of days ago, Professor Merton Finkler gave a colloquium at my alma mater doing some comparative economics along with economic fore...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Why People Hate Big Business and Shouldn't

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When you hear about Big Business, it's amazing how so many people group it along with the likes of skinheads or terrorists. If you watch...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Will Obama Cause American Jews to Vote Republican?

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Since the days of FDR, Jews in America have disproportionately voted Democrat in a secularly traditional matter .  The question that is on a...