Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Opinion: Can Halachah ever be wrong?
By Dennis Prager
Many years ago, one of the most respected Orthodox rabbis of our generation, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the chief rabbi of Efrat, told me the following. . .
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Opinion: In defense of acquiring material things
By Dennis Prager
Every year around Christmas and Chanukah time, writers, commentators, pundits and many rabbis, priests and ministers exhort Americans against. . .
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Climate change: A reasoned skeptic’s response
By Dennis Prager
In my two columns on why thoughtful people might be skeptical about the apocalyptic global warming/climate change scenario, I addressed the issue. . .
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Opinion: Global warming: Part 2
By Dennis Prager
This is how I began Part 1 of this column, two weeks ago: “In the belief that there are people on the left who are more interested in understanding. . .
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Man-made global warming: Why many of us are skeptical [Part 1]
By Dennis Prager
In the belief that there are people on the left who are more interested in understanding the right rather than in simply dismissing its decency, I. . .
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Opinion: Why is it so hard to become a better person?
By Dennis Prager
The purpose of the High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) is moral introspection: Every year, Jews meditate on the issue of becoming a better. . .
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Opinion: For a Happy New Year, here’s what to do
By Dennis Prager
Jews get to celebrate the new year twice a year — on Rosh Hashanah and on Jan. 1. But there are differences between the two holidays: Rosh Hashanah. . .
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Opinion: When rabbis politicize the High Holy Days
By Dennis Prager
Every year, Jewish listeners to my radio show write to me from around the country about their rabbi using the High Holy Days to deliver political. . .
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Opinion: Still the only solution to the world’s problems
By Dennis Prager
There is only one solution to the world’s problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth.. . .
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Dennis Prager: First fight yourself, then society
By Dennis Prager
Some 20 years ago, I was putting my older son, then about 8 years old, to bed and asked him what he learned that day in school. Normally he would. . .
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Dennis Prager: Adults who do not speak to a parent
By Dennis Prager
For two decades I have been on a crusade: to convince adults who have cut off all communication with a parent to re-establish contact.. . .
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Maybe San Francisco will wake jews up
By Dennis Prager
If San Francisco succeeds in banning circumcision, some good may come of it.. . .
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Liberalism and the decline of a society’s character
By Dennis Prager
While most American Jews and other liberals believe in the intrinsic goodness and moral superiority of liberal policies, powerful arguments can be. . .
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
My Jewish Credo
By Dennis Prager
About 20 years ago, a Jewish publication in Australia invited me to make a list of my basic Jewish beliefs. I found the exercise much more difficult. . .
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Can We Celebrate the Death of Evil People?
By Dennis Prager
We live in a time very different from any in the past.. . .
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Dancing with the Rabbis?
By Dennis Prager
On April 3, under the auspices of the American Jewish University, in its Gindi Auditorium, five Los Angeles rabbis competed with one another in an. . .
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
What about innocents who are executed?
By Dennis Prager
I devoted my last column to the Torah’s insistence on taking the life of murderers. I noted that this was the only law in all five books of the. . .
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Murderers should die
By Dennis Prager
Last week, Rhode Island announced that it will release Michael Woodmansee from prison this August, 12 years early, because of “good conduct.” He. . .
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
A Jew visits Vietnam
By Dennis Prager
I spent last week in Vietnam and Cambodia. Visiting these two long-suffering countries made me revisit some of the basic beliefs that have shaped my. . .
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
No God, no moral society
By Dennis Prager
Every reader of this column — no matter how alienated from religion — is familiar with the adage, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Even the. . .
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Honor your father and mother
By Dennis Prager
To make the case for the Torah, I can think of no better verse with which to begin than the fifth of the Ten Commandments: “Honor your father and. . .
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The Case for the Torah
By Dennis Prager
With this first column of the year, I have decided to devote a number of my columns this year to making the case for the Torah.. . .
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
A Yeshiva boy and Christmas
By Dennis Prager
When I was 20, I spent my junior year in college in England. When classes let out for the last two weeks of December, I traveled to Morocco, where. . .
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas and secular universities
By Dennis Prager
The Wall Street Journal recently published a column about ultra-Orthodox (Charedi) Jews in Israel who do not work for a living. Sixty-five percent of. . .
