Cloning Controversy Multiplies
In the Brave New World of cloning, most Jewish ethicists and organizations are staking out the middle ground.
In the Brave New World of cloning, most Jewish ethicists and organizations are staking out the middle ground.
My friend Roth is dating a girl named Erica. By religion, she is Swedenborgian. He\’d never even heard of this (neither had I), until she came along and spelled it all out for him.
Abraham Joshua Heschel said that he prayed for one thing: the gift of wonder. He prayed for astonishment, for the capacity to be surprised. As he wrote, \”I try not to be stale. I try to remain young. I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendouslysurprised at life and at ideas. This is to me the supreme Chassidic imperative.\”