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March 2012

March 27, 2012

It’s Lurie Versus Falick!

While Jerry Coyne has been “crossing swords” with Rabbi Alan Lurie on his site, the...

March 26, 2012

Tennesseans Iz Lernin

I grew up in Miami, but I spent my junior and senior years of high...

March 23, 2012

Lurie, Einstein And Me

I certainly did not expect to hear from Alan Lurie about my recent post, “Lurie...

March 23, 2012

De Botton’s Religion For Atheists – A Review

Most humanists and other non-theists share a world view in most respects. Overblown as it...

March 19, 2012

Lurie Redux…Now With Einsteinian Proofs!

I have twice addressed Rabbi Alan Lurie’s HuffPost articles and their assertions about God. You...

March 19, 2012

Orthodox Versus Unorthodox

Not too long ago, the publishers of Deborah Feldman’s book, Unorthodox, were kind enough to...

March 13, 2012

What’s Sauce For The Goose…

A few weeks back an organization called the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools...

March 12, 2012

One State Will Never Fit All

While I was attending a youth conclave for the Society of Humanistic Jews in Washington,...

March 12, 2012

To Sing Or Not To Sing

Like other non-believers, If I happen to find myself in a place where people are...

March 08, 2012

Sharia Hysteria And Unintended Consequences

In their continuing effort to make false distinctions among fundamentalist Islam, Christianity and Judaism, lawmakers...

March 07, 2012

Miley Cyrus, Scientist

I’m a fan of Miley Cyrus. I think it started with that 3D concert I...

March 06, 2012

Another Baby Dies Due To Ritual Circumcision

I wish that I did not have to post things like this. I’ve already written...

March 01, 2012

Republican Roundup: Santorum, Kennedy, Romney & Posthumous Conversions

J.J. Goldberg, frequently one of the most sane voices in American Jewish journalism, has a...

February 2012

February 24, 2012

Sex

All of the recent discussion by Christian theocratic types about contraception should serve as a...

February 24, 2012

Haters: Same Sex Marriage Is “Fake Marriage”

Over at the Family Research Council, bastion of theologically grounded hatred, Tony Perkins has launched...

February 23, 2012

Not So Fast There, Mr. Neutrino

Back in September the science world was quite excited when researchers at CERN announced the...

February 22, 2012

Visit Coin Laundry – Even If You Already Own A Washing Machine

Coin Laundry is a new blog that I have recommended in the past. One of...

February 22, 2012

Buses On Shabbat? Haredim Serving In The IDF? Perish The Thought!

There have been two interesting developments in the battle of religion versus secular society in...

February 20, 2012

Rick Santorum, Theologus Bibliae

Rick “Man on Dog Sex” Santorum will never be elected president, but if it’s the...

February 18, 2012

Breaking Away Is Expensive To Do

Here’s a good use of the money that usually goes to Israeli Haredi Jews so...

February 18, 2012

Homosexual: Repress Yourself!

If conservative Orthodox Jews and other religious extremists would just practice their religious prejudices among...

February 10, 2012

Halacha Vs. Democracy: Which Will Israelis Choose?

Over the past few days I have dug a little deeper into the implications of...

February 06, 2012

Israel By The Numbers

The Avi Chai Foundation is an Israeli organization that works to promote cross-group understanding, particularly...

February 02, 2012

Jewish Values: Left-Wing, Right-Wing & Everything In Between

One of the most interesting Jewish writers around these days is Jay Michaelson. His regular...

February 02, 2012

The Plight Of Orthodox Gays

I can think of no worse situation for a gay person than to belong to...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

How Could God Have Allowed The Holocaust And Other Meaningless Questions

Back in September I wrote a response to Rabbi Alan Lurie’s HuffPost blog about how...

January 30, 2012

That’s An Awful Lot Of Lettuce For That Lettuce

The last time I wrote about some of what I considered to be the, how...

January 27, 2012

Leviticus 30:1: Verily Shalt Thou Shun The Internet

Israeli Sephardic leader Rav Ovadia Yosef, patron of the Shas Party, has joined with others,...

January 25, 2012

Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho…Onto The Ark We Go!

I just took a few days off to go to Walt Disney World with my...

January 17, 2012

Tuesday Link-A-Palooza

It’s Tuesday, the most disrespected day of the week. Too far from the weekend and...

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