“…the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has matured into a full-dress academic discipline with a huge number of publications…”
I think we scholars who are devoting our lives to the study of the...
“…directly confronting difficult or discomfiting halakhic opinions, whether tending to the conservative or the liberal side, can have a positive effect…”
Some writers tend to downplay the existence of stringent or seemingly unenlightened opinions on...
“It is our duty to do our utmost in restoring physical health, but it is sinful to ignore the most essential requirement of being a person…”
We care for the mentally retarded; what about the spiritually retarded? We extend relief...
“Something interesting happens when a word that suggests action is applied to beauty: It recasts beauty as something that can be done, pulled off — not just possessed”
It’s perhaps our first untroubled word for human beauty, free of the whiff of...
“Classify your antagonists as haters, however, and your flaws are absolved by their greater sin of envy”
Haters hate; that’s them doing them. No matter how saintly you are, the kittens...
“While the word “tautophrase” didn’t take off, the phenomenon it described blossomed, abetted by hip-hop”
While the word “tautophrase” didn’t take off, the phenomenon it described blossomed, abetted by...
“…the important thing is for employees to make strategy choices for themselves…”
…the important thing is for employees to make strategy choices for themselves – with...
“Before making any conscious choice of preferred social media strategy, professionals should do a quick self-diagnosis of their current, most natural online behavior”
Before making any conscious choice of preferred social media strategy, professionals should do a...
“Our historic obligation, today, is to raise ourselves from a people to a holy nation, from the covenant of Egypt to the covenant at Sinai…”
Our historic obligation, today, is to raise ourselves from a people to a holy...
“Invariably, when a large donor makes a major investment in an area of activity, that investment attracts other dollars and corrals the energy of the entire community”
An older generation of donors tended to give to big institutions, which they counted...