How I Spent My Shavuot
Entering the study-hall, some holy energy seems to seize me, and, even as my mind and body increasingly rebel against the deprivation of slumber, my soul jumps for joy.
Category: Morality
Election Result
Jewish chosen-ness, from the Jewish perspective, entails no disparagement of others. It is not a license but a responsibility.
A Thought About Thinking
it’s only at a certain point of development that thinking – at least about consequences – really kicks in
Whatever Your Politics
Whatever your stance on the abortion debate, no decent human being can fail to be repulsed by the story: “Baby Trashed After Botched Abortion.” Apparently the doctor didn’t show up in time to abort...
Unbearable
“Look… This child awaits his turn. Watch their humiliation. They are corpses, Allah be praised…”
Hypocrisies, Imagined and Real
I hope my wife and kids don’t find out that I consider it kosher to force 16-year-old girls to work 20 hours a day.
In fact, I was shocked at myself for having said such a thing – or, at least, I would have been had I actually said it.
Real Money
The late senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois once famously said to Lyndon Johnson about the national debt: “A few billion here, a few billion there and before you know it, you’re talking real money…”...
Out with the New
Ben Stein had a nice piece in the New York Times last week. He concluded, “It is a myth that money determines who you are, and if you have gotten over that myth by...
Weapons, and Weapons
When one lacks any semblance of moral justification for one’s belligerence and lust to murder innocents, there is only benefit in having as many dead civilians as possible of one’s own to display in lieu of logic.
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