Please excuse the length of this posting, but I thought readers should see a report sent to members of Jewish Voice for Peace, the rapidly growing group of moderate Jewish Americans. The complaint is about the biased reporting of current events in Israel by the New York Times: “Our analysis of over 30 New York …
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“Human beings should aspire to pleasure and happiness in this world, avoiding rude, vulgar people, cruelty, warfare, those with no empathy or care for others, and those striving for recognition and power”. (Michel de Montaigne (1533—1592)) In one sentence Montaigne has summed up some of the main thoughts and attitudes of Epicurus.
California, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia, have banned licensed therapists from practicing conversion therapy on gays, but, amazingly, many Americans still think this “therapy” works. Earlier this year 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn, who wrote on a Tumblr post that her parents had forced her to go to conversion therapy, took her own life, provoking …
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Milton said that “a meet and happy conversation is the chief and noblest end of marriage,” by which he meant that physical love is all well and good but true marriage is a meeting of the minds. He knew whereof he spoke because after he married his attractive young wife he discovered that she was …
The other day we were with some liberal-minded friends who were excoriating Prime Minister Cameron for not taking in many more Syrian refugees into the UK. Leaving aside for the moment the practical logistical problems facing the EU – the existing housing crisis, jobs and schools, the fears of culture change, and the less than …
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