Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Jews and Christians

By Dennis Prager

I have spent much of my adult life working to bring Jews and Christians together. In particular, I have tried to explain to fellow Jews that. . .

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Who’ll support Israel?

By Dennis Prager

“Israel’s great challenge: gun-hating, gay-backing, grass-smoking young Americans.” That was the title of an article published on April 5 in. . .

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Lessons of the Holocaust

By Dennis Prager

This week, Jews around the world observed Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day ought to be universally observed, because the lessons of the Holocaust. . .

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Time to end ‘Top Rabbis’ list

By Dennis Prager

Kudos to the Jewish Journal and writer Danielle Berrin for a fair and balanced article about Newsweek magazine’s “America’s Top 50 Rabbis”. . .

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Secularism: Great for government, destructive to everything else

By Dennis Prager

Most non-Orthodox Jews venerate secularism. Virtually every movement and organization advancing secularism in the United States has been founded or. . .

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Self Esteem

By Dennis Prager

I will use my old friend Richard Gunther’s accompanying letter as a jumping-off point for a discussion of the self-esteem movement.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Judaism’s greatest lesson: Behavior matters most

By Dennis Prager

If I were asked to identify the greatest Jewish teaching, the most important lesson to be learned from all of Judaism, I would argue that, aside from. . .

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

I found God at Columbia

By Dennis Prager

Not many people today can say that they found God or religion at college or graduate school. Most universities, after all, are thoroughly secular. . .

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Michael Tolkin: A new low

By Dennis Prager

As I explained — yet again — in my last column, I made the case in my original column, “Why Is Murder Wrong?” “that if there is no God who. . .

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Is murder wrong?: Progressive dialogue

By Dennis Prager

In my last column, I made the case that if there is no God who declares murder wrong, murder is not, in fact, wrong. While human beings can believe. . .

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Why is murder wrong?

By Dennis Prager

I take it as a given that every reader of this journal believes that murder is wrong. (By murder, I mean the immoral taking of a human life — not. . .

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

The Age of Feelings

By Dennis Prager

In the Pacific Coast waters off the Northern California city of Eureka on Nov. 10, a mother, a father and their teenage son all died.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Jews and abortion

By Dennis Prager

One of the most frequent questions Christians ask me as a Jew is, “Why aren’t Jews committed to protecting the unborn?”

Thursday, November 1, 2012

A Jew tours for Mitt Romney

By Dennis Prager

I spent last week speaking to thousands of Romney supporters in four “battleground” states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Virginia. I traveled. . .

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The American election and Israel

By Dennis Prager

Americans who care deeply about Israel have to make two decisions regarding the upcoming election.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Dennis Prager: Netanyahu’s U.N. speech

Netanyahu’s U.N. speech

In the eyes of many, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly was a masterful statement of the. . .

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Who will live, who will die?

By Dennis Prager

You don’t have to be a Jewish scholar to note a glaring difference between Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Jan. 1, the secular New Year.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Everything is easier than doing good

By Dennis Prager

Some thoughts for Rosh Hashanah: If we took a vote on what trait we human beings most value, goodness would undoubtedly win. Certainly goodness is. . .

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Lying for the cause

By Dennis Prager

There are many admirable values. The list includes, of course, goodness, integrity and compassion.

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Jews and guns

By Dennis Prager

It is a given among liberal and progressive Jews that gun ownership among the general population is a bad thing. The ideal is near-universal. . .

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Q&A with the 'Ground Zero' Imam

By Dennis Prager

On July 20, Jewish Journal columnist Dennis Prager conducted a lengthy interview on his radio show with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, author of “What’s. . .

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

This past month in the Muslim world

By Dennis Prager

Some news items from the Islamic world in the past month.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Why I voted against the tobacco tax

By Dennis Prager

A few weeks ago, California voters narrowly rejected another tax increase not only on cigarettes, but also on those mass murderers — cigar and pipe. . .

Friday, June 15, 2012

Is there a heaven and a hell?

By Dennis Prager

When it comes to the subject of the existence of heaven and hell, most contemporary Jews – meaning Jews who have graduated college, who are. . .