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Too deep — yet inspirational — for me
Hillel GoldbergSep 03, 2015
BEFORE ROSH Hashanah and Yom Kippur, many people look for inspiration. I know I do. Sometimes I am inspired by what I do not understand. Though I am steeped in
To regret or not to regret
Amy LedermanAug 27, 2015
When my husband, Ray, was diagnosed with cancer almost four years ago, we became a team, determined to face the challenge of living with cancer head on. From the onset,...
Christian and Yazidi Children in Iraq
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 27, 2015
In every generation, there are those storied lives of people, basically seemingly regular, ordinary people, whose sense of moral clarity, compassion and courage to act...
How do you know what’s right or wrong?
Dennis PragerAug 20, 2015
How can we determine what is morally right? The answer to this question — the most important question human beings need to answer — is a major difference between...
Rawtarian
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 20, 2015
Whenever I would hear that someone is a rawtarian, I assumed they were limited to eating carrots and celery sticks or other fruits and vegetables. I love the flavors of...
The debate
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 13, 2015
THESE DAYS, its agitating witnessing the debate over the Iran deal unfold. The conversation has reached some pretty low points, making the conversation about dual...
It’s a lion
Dennis PragerAug 06, 2015
The uproar over the killing of a lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe by an American dentist, Dr. Walter Palmer, is further proof that secular society inevitably produces moral...
Jews react to terrorism by Jews
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 06, 2015
Once Tisha b’Av departs, we as a people usually sigh a collective sigh of relief. Tu b’Av and Shabbat Nachamu follow, and we feel and experience the sense of a...
From the fat to the fanatic
Hillel GoldbergJul 30, 2015
The world seems to run in extremes. On the one hand are those who never exercise. Doctors admonitions and the examples of people whove thrown their health away ...
Too late
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 23, 2015
Political discussion can be so frustrating. Especially recently, it seems the conversation has become even more binary than usual. If the Supreme Court’s decision on...