Monday, April 25, 2016

Spiritual Lessons from Breaking the Middle Matzah During a Seder

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The Passover seder is an intricate ritual feast that has multiple steps, each of which could be analyzed separately. The fact that each phas...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Transgender Bathroom Ban: Is It Policy That Belongs In the Toilet?

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Earlier this week, an appeals court ruled that the Virginia ban on transgender individuals entering the bathroom that best aligns with thei...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Why Mandatory Nutrition Labeling for Restaurants Doesn't Work

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Obesity has become a rampant issue in the United States, and it is one I have commented on during more than one occasion (see here , here , ...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Breaking Up the Big Banks Would Presumably Be a Big Disaster

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Bernie Sanders had quite the interview with New York Daily News a few days back. Part of the interview entailed his plan to break up the b...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Is Anti-Zionism Simply a Modern-Day Form of Anti-Semitism?

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Semantics can be a very riveting topic, especially when talking about politics. While definitions can confine, they can also describe someth...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

A $15 Minimum Wage for New York and California Will Most Probably Fail

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The states of New York and California made history yesterday by raising their statewide minimum wages to $15 per hour. These new minimum wa...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Russia Will Not Strike It Rich With Latest Oil Tax Proposal...Quite the Opposite

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While many were paying attention to the ISIS attack in Belgium, there was one bit of foreign policy news that went relatively unnoticed last...