Why Knowledge Isn’t Power

By Beit T'shuvah
Published on March 7, 2013

What Do You Want to Know About Synagogues?

By Susan Esther Barnes
Published on August 29, 2012

Religion: The ‘first and worst’ explanation

Published on October 23, 2008

It belongs to the terrified childhood of our species, before we knew about germs or could account for earthquakes. It belongs to our childhood, too, in the less charming sense of demanding a tyrannical authority: a protective parent who demands compulsory love even as he exacts a tithe of fear.

One-Day U

By Marty Kaplan
Published on September 17, 2008

You have to go back to Spiro Agnew and his bullyboy ventriloquists, Pat Buchanan and William Safire, to find this kind of sneering contempt for educated people.

Judaism 101: everything we need to know

By Jo Kay
Published on October 19, 2006

What do we need to know to function in or create a Jewish home, to function in the synagogue, to function in Jewish communal life and to function in the world as a knowledgeable Jew? What should we know, feel and be able to do to be considered a literate Jew?

Balance With ‘One Foot’

By Rachel Brand
Published on May 15, 2003

Has a question or statement about Israel ever caught you so off guard and tongue-tied that you wished you could just reach into your back pocket to pull out an answer?

The Ethics of War

By Uriel Heilman
Published on October 17, 2002

When the U.S. House and Senate voted last week to pass resolutions authorizing the use of military force against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, the domestic political debate surrounding the war issue was brought to rest, at least for the time being. But for many people across the nation and around the world, Congress' political decision merely fueled the heated ethical debate surrounding the legitimacy of waging such a war.

Finding Their Way

Published on June 5, 1997

Like most converts, the Hardins take the precepts of their adopted faith more seriously than many born to it, and they display an intense hunger for knowledge, as if to make up for what they missed during their childhoods.