WWMD? What would Maimonides do?

By Roger Price
Published on January 4, 2013

Meet Ardi

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on October 1, 2009

The evolution of a high school controversy

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on September 5, 2009

Understanding Islamic creationism

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on February 13, 2009

Time to ditch Darwinism

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 17, 2008

Thanks to the Intelligent Designer, evolution is speeding up!

By JewishJournal.com
Published on December 13, 2007

Simpsons evolution: Best. Couch gag. Ever.

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on December 3, 2007

Is there really a superior race?

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on November 20, 2007

Spectator - My Husband,  the Rabbi

By Sandee Brawarsky
Published on March 2, 2006

The first time the word "rebbetzin" appeared in The New York Times was in 1931, in a review of a book about Yiddish theater. The term stood untranslated; the reviewer and his editors assumed that readers would understand the meaning.

Editor’s Corner - Junk Science

By Rob Eshman
Published on August 11, 2005

"Both sides ought to be properly taught," President George W. Bush told reporters in Texas Aug. 1, "so people can understand what the debate is about. Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought.... You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes."

It’s Time to Change

By Jane Ulman
Published on September 2, 2004

The oldest and most primitive human dates back about 7 million years, according to a skull found by scientists in Central Africa.

"That's so depressing," I say to my husband, Larry. "I can't believe that in 7 million years we haven't evolved any further than this."

"This" being a world in which half the people live on less than $2 a day; in which 1 billion people go to bed hungry every night; in which 115 million children never go to school at all; and in which 27 million people live in some kind of slavery.

"You're looking at this all wrong," Larry assures me. "Seven million years is an insignificant blip in the history of the cosmos."

And, Jewish tradition tells me, the first 6,994,235 years hardly count.

Keys to the ‘Kingdom’

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 8, 2003

"The ideals that form the moral compass of Western civilization, the belief that every human being has value, the belief that no one is above the law, the belief that how each of us treats our fellow human beings matters -- these were all the gifts of the Jews."