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Asking the Wrong Question
I recently attended two conversations under the aegis of the Templeton Foundation’s Big Questions initiative. Both dealt with whether God exists”one directly, the other obliquely, by asking whether science...
Religion and the Legitimate State
The idea of a social contract first makes its appearance in Plato’s Republic . Men are naturally prone to commit injustice, and thus injustice is naturally good, Glaucon, one...
Covenant and Civility
For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter Between Judaism and Christianity by Irving Greenberg Jewish Publications Society of America, 274 pp. $20 paper The title of...
American Judaism: A History
This year marks the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in North America. In 1654, twenty-three Jews arrived in Dutch New Amsterdam from Recife, Brazil, fleeing the Inquisition. Although not...
Fretful Orthodoxy
There is a pamphlet making its way, via the Internet, through the Modern Orthodox stream of the American Jewish community. Written by Gil Perl and Yaakov Weinstein, graduate students...
Jews and Compassionate Conservatism
Since September 11, President Bush has placed much of his domestic policy agenda on hold. Yet we would be wrong to conclude from his recent emphasis on foreign affairs...