I'm reading torah tomorrow, and my portion starts in the middle of a ( Read more... )

This afternoon I was reading the dead-tree edition of Moment magazine and came across an excellent article on how anti-abortion laws conflict with halacha. They only seem to have the first few paragraphs on their web site, alas. (They sometimes have full articles. Maybe there's a time lag.)
To summarize, Jewish law does not hold (as much of ( Read more... )

What's wrong with this statement? "The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for potentially lifetime detentions, including for hundreds of people now in military and CIA custody whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts." (story)
A story ( Read more... )

The other day I was listening to some Salamone Rossi ( Read more... )

Why I am considering staying in the Methodist Church, written by a committed member of the church who is a target of their discrimination. (Link via kayre.)
Thomas Jefferson on church and state, posted by dglenn in honor of the national day of prayer.
For Pittsburghers: Panim el panim, a discussion/panel with my rabbi, someone from ( Read more... )

I was reading Invisible Lines of Connection by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner this afternoon, where I came across this ( Read more... )

Alabama isn't the only place with controversies over judicial monuments to the 10 commandments; there's a local case of this too. But ours doesn't weigh 2.5 tons; it's just a plaque and thus easy to miss in the political and media circus.
An article in yesterday's paper described what happened ( Read more... )

Oh all right. :-)
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I objected to the pledge of allegiance from a fairly early age. Or ( Read more... )

Last Monday night I led a book review/discussion at Temple Sinai of Karen Armstrong's A History of God. (Billed as a review, but a ( Read more... )