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‘Moses Shaped America’: Despite the Naysayers…America Really Is a Judeo-Christian Nation
On his Thursday evening program, Glenn Beck welcomed Tim Ballard, historian and author of a new book detailing how the Founding Fathers were spiritually moved to created the United States based on Biblical prophecy — particularly as it relates to the ancient Hebrews. “The Covenant: America’s Sacred and Immutable Connection to Ancient Israel” is a book that will likely prove a fascinating read ...
When your brother will be low: Parashat Behar-Bechukotai (Leviticus 25:1-27:34)
He flopped down on the couch in my study, looking pale, upset. “What is it?” I asked, imagining a bad diagnosis.
Interview: Jonathan Haidt on Social Conservatives, New Atheists and Civility in Politics
In his new book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Religion and Politics , Jonathan Haidt, a social psychology professor at University of Virginia, argues that our intuitions come before our reasoning and our reasoning is usually a post-hoc justification for those intuitions. As a result, humans do a horrible job at understanding those with whom they disagree.
Israel’s drone dominance
If you want to know how drones will change America, look to the Jewish State -- where they're already widespread
Is American decline real?
“[T]he United States cannot afford another decline like that which has characterized the past decade and a half....[O]nly self-delusion can keep us from admitting our decline to ourselves.” – Henry A. Kissinger, 1961 In these words, one of America’s most distinguished strategic thinkers and policy makers expresses alarm at America’s condition and the perils it faces. The warning seems timely ...
“The Aleppo Codex”: The bizarre history of a precious book
An ancient and priceless book, a murky history of evasions and coverups, an underground of sinister and possibly violent dealers, a former spy who drops tantalizing hints and a wily 84-year-old millionaire who says stuff like, "The problem with this story is that it could damage your health": Are these the ingredients for a cheesy, improbable historical thriller? Yet "The Aleppo Codex," Matti ...
No Ticker Tape, But Cheers, as Bible Champion Returns to Brooklyn
BROOKLYN, N.Y., May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- On Israel's Independence Day - April 26, 2012, Yeshivah of Flatbush High School senior Akiva Abramowitz stood next to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who congratulated him on receiving coveted titles in the 49th International...
“Bring Up the Bodies”: Hilary Mantel’s power play
"Bring Up the Bodies," Hilary Mantel's follow-up to her Man Booker Prize-winning 2009 novel, "Wolf Hall," is a high-wire act, a feat of novelistic derring-do. Mantel makes bold not with form -- by now meaningful experimentation in that area seems exhausted -- but with the very material that brings most readers to novels in the first place: our imaginative identification with fictional characters ...
More than skin deep
Yuck, skin disease! This has been the cry of many a bar and bat mitzvah student when informed that this week’s Torah portion will be their Torah reading on their big day. I empathize with them, for I have had the same reaction in preparing this column.
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