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June 2015

June 08, 2015

Teach Torah Honestly!

Sometimes I feel like I must be missing some kind of Jewish gene that enables...

December 2014

December 18, 2014

Chanukah: When Truth Collides with Memory

Chanukah is a challenging holiday for Humanistic Jews. Yes, you read that correctly. Our little...

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...

November 2011

November 10, 2011

Some Thoughts About Islam (And The Israeli-Arab Conflict)

These days, it seems that most critiques of the Islamic world come from American and...

January 2011

January 14, 2011

So Now I’m A Taurus?

I went to bed a Gemini and I woke up a Taurus. My life is...

December 2010

December 25, 2010

The Real Story Of Christmas

As my daughters will tell you, I love complaining about how when I was a...

November 2010

November 30, 2010

Ten Commandments Revisited

Some east Texas yahoo is putting forward legislation to allow the ten commandments to be...

November 01, 2010

Authority Un-Challenged

On his recent trip to England, Pope Ratzi gave a speech in which he tried...

September 2010

September 24, 2010

The Problem Is Not Just Islam, The Problem Is All Fundamentalism

Between Terry Jones’ aborted Koran burning and the furor over the non-mosque that is not...

September 23, 2010

Happy Water Drawing Day

All day today I have been intending to post something about Sukkot. For a holiday...