“…American culture offers little to model healthy sexual encounters beyond the threshold of consent”
On college campuses and elsewhere, not everyone fully understands and embraces the importance of...
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“Jewish law…does not sentence people to prison as a punishment…because the Jewish communities didn’t have real prisons”
He tells us that Jewish law, unlike secular law, does not sentence people to...
“American Christianity is generally not a religion of scholarship. It’s a religion of feeling and emotion”
Many Christians don’t know the Bible, nor do they care to know the Bible....
“When it comes to voting, showing people its value is much more powerful than talking about it”
When it comes to voting, showing people its value is much more powerful than...
“…the Jewish parent’s Hanukkah-time invitation to share his or her culture comes with the best of intentions”
…the Jewish parent’s Hanukkah-time invitation to share his or her culture comes with the...
“We Americans have never been all that comfortable with patriarchy in the strict sense of the word…”
We Americans have never been all that comfortable with patriarchy in the strict sense...
“…bemoaning the general immaturity of contemporary culture would be as obtuse as declaring it the coolest thing ever”
…bemoaning the general immaturity of contemporary culture would be as obtuse as declaring it...
“American voters pay close attention to the presidential election…. Midterm elections…are a great chance for the opposing party to increase gridlock…”
American voters pay close attention to the presidential election. The majority of eligible voters,...
“Courtesy is dead. The plane is its graveyard…”
There’s little sense of a common good, no rules that everybody follows so that...
“Thanksgiving is a much needed model for an increasingly secular American Jewry”
Thanksgiving is a much needed model for an increasingly secular American Jewry. Where “cultural...