Judaism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Competence of Bishops, Once More
On July 31, I posted here ” A Respectful Word on Episcopal Competence .” Bishop Thomas Wenski…
Is Amnesty International Incoherent?
Ryan Anderson argued persuasively last week that Amnesty International’s new position on abortion laws makes AI effectively…
Limbo and the Gospel Out of Season
Back in October, I wrote in this space about how the Vatican’s International Theological Commission (ITC) was…
Faithful Reason About Stem Cells
Two years ago, William Saletan¯Slate.com’s science reporter¯compared the typical approaches of Jewish and Catholic thinkers to bioethical…
Language, Truth, and Murder
The Right Attitude to Rain by alexander mccall smith pantheon, 288 pages, $21.95 Hard to believe that,…
T.S. Eliot, Mother Teresa, and the Children of Darkness
Whatever the merits or demerits of Craig Raine’s new biography, T.S. Eliot , and Terry Eagleton thinks…
Prostitutes for the Disabled
Here’s a very sad story from Great Britain . Twenty-two-year-old Nick Wallis suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy,…
Death and Lectures
I’ll be lecturing in Baltimore on Monday, January 29, and in Denver on Tuesday, February 6. You…
Bottum: Following Up the Duke Case
College is time for learning things, and there have been several lessons taught by the accusations of…
RJN: Europe, the Founders, and the Archdiocese of New York
Jewcentricity is a word that will probably not catch on, but Adam Garfinkle employs it to good…
Protestant-Catholic-Jew, Then and Now
In the winter of 1954, Will Herberg, the best untrained sociologist in America, turned his attention to…
“Are Jews Smarter?”
That’s putting the question bluntly, but there’s really no other way of putting it if you’re going…
Messianic Jews: A Third Way?
At Beth Israel Hospital, on First Avenue and Seventeenth Street, just around the corner from where I…
The Polite Gentiles
Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Toward Tradition airs a question that I expect most Jews think should be…
Bach, Hitler and the People Called German
Steven Ozment has done a remarkable thing in A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German…
