Jewish ethics

(WJET/WFXP/YourErie.com) — PennWest Edinboro receives a special visit from a rabbi with a history and passion for justice issues and academic expertise in the Jewish community. Pennsylvania Western University's Uncomfortable…

By Jonty Ralphsmith The interview time has just exceeded an hour when it ends. One could talk to Dandenong Stingray Ziggy Toledo-Glasman and dad, Simon, for double that time and still feel like they haven't captured it all,…

Tahrif's religious accusations of corrupting other people's scriptures did not start with Islam; they started with Judaism and Christianity. Rabbi Elazar ben Yossi HaGelili, who lived in the first half of the 2nd century CE, said: “I…

The 80s left a lasting mark on pop culture through several unforgettable films, such as Top Gun, The Breakfast Club, and Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom. However, the decade's children's films particularly stand out, as some were…

CS Lewis wrote a book about his youth called "Surprised by Joy". The name comes from a sonnet by Wordsworth mourning the death of his daughter Catherine in 1812. Lewis said that joy was "almost as different from security or prosperity as…

Like many North American Jewish children celebrating a bar or bat mitzvah, Jason Sherman received a certificate that a tree had been planted in Israel in his honor. In the case of Shermans, it was in 1975 and he no longer thought of…

SCHENECTADY — Long-simmering tensions between city council members boiled over on Monday when several lawmakers accused each other of racism following the last-minute cancellation of a public meeting scheduled for last week. Monday's…

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When the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the rabbinical association of the Reform movement, published a survey of its ethics complaints process last December, it came up with a long checklist of proposed changes. Last…

I don't like going to the theater to be "lectured" at all, but very occasionally one comes across a play that provokes thought and greater enlightenment. Critically acclaimed Robert Icke's The Doctor, currently on…

Dad absolutely loved hamantaschen. You know those triangular pastries for the Jewish holiday of Purim? I don't think he cared much about the type of filling as long as these delicious triangles were from one of his favorite bakeries. He…

THE Moriah Foundation launched the Moriah Foundation Trusted Advisors Network (MFTAN) in the presence of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW, the Honorable Andrew Bell. About 50 practitioners, including lawyers, accountants…

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The Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values ​​and Leadership is proud to welcome the Sacks Scholars Graduate Fellows in Ethics and Entrepreneurship, 2022-2023. The scholarship honors the memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, an…

"Interpretation at the Asylum Office"This month's feature is contributed by LCJ Hub member Hillary Mellinger, assistant…

AT the heart of faith, which is the condition of being shaken, one particular practice is crucial: xenophilia. Loving what is other, what is strange or foreign. It is obviously opposed to xenophobia, to the fear of the other and of the…

There is a very deep division in the body politic of our country and a Supreme Court case, Roe v. Wade, is at the heart of his breakup. There are constitutional issues that inform both sides of the abortion debate and I am not educated…

While in common parlance there is a tendency to refer specifically to the Ten Days of Penance incorporating the High Holy Days as a period of introspection leading to resolutions for the future, tradition holds that with the month of…

Lafawndah is one of many artists who pulled out of this week's Pop-Kultur festival in Berlin due to links between the event and the cultural department of the Israeli embassy. In a statement shared via social media, the!-->…

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem may have 'mistaken' when she stepped in to help her daughter obtain a real estate appraiser's license, a state ethics committee said Monday. – although it is not immediately clear what…

Yes, there were Jews in colonial America. It wasn't just Puritans and Quakers. The history of Judaism in North America began in 1654, when 23 Sephardic Jews arrived in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, or present-day New York.…

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When I started writing the piece that would one day become "The Inconvenient Miracle: A Mysterious Musical Birth", I was going through a bit of an existential crisis. I had spent the past four years at Saint Mary's College, a Catholic…

Zionist Organization of America National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is representing Elisabeth Schwartz in her lawsuit against two school board members in…

Gerald Nagler, a prominent human rights activist who made risky Cold War forays into the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to lend his support to dissidents including Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov and the future Czech President Vaclav Havel…

Photograph by Peggy Taylor. By Michael McDowall Primary day is August 23 and one thing is certain: Manhattan will lose at least one of its most powerful political players. Next an awkward recutting process,…

By Asaf ShalevJERUSALEM — He has been touted as a historic scoop: the first Jewish-Israeli journalist to document the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage during an unprecedented visit to Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca.A screenshot from a…

The reason of the heart is the instinctive recognition of truth, goodness and beauty.…

CLAREMORE — A state senate candidate from Rogers County is being called…

Just over two months after Niles West High School District 219 School Board member Jill Manrique sparked controversy by wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh on the stage at the graduation ceremony at Niles West High School in Skokie, a…

DERRY – The Etz Hayim Synagogue will hold an open house and orientation for new and returning students on…

Nickola Cunha, the former Hamden lawyer who was disbarred for anti-Semitic remarks made against a judge faces disciplinary action for allegations she made against three other lawyers, according to court documents.In one case, Cunha falsely…

Beat a dead horse? Learn about the decline of Protestantism * If you wish to comment here, make your comment relatively brief (no more than 100 words, please), civil and respectful in language, not hostile or argumentative,…

These days, perhaps more than ever, we hear about “my rights”. During my life, there have been important movements to guarantee rights of all kinds. And today, protests and debates continue, sometimes civil and sometimes not. But…

By Laurie Baron Laurie Baron Richard A. Freund, PhD SAN DIEGO – Dr. Richard A. Freund died in Charlottesville, Va., on July 14, 2022, of complications resulting from rejection of a bone marrow transplant he received 18 years ago. He…

The far-reaching shortcomings of so-called Western-style democracy may date back to its earliest days, but what has been particularly troubling lately has been a tendency to elect (or select) leaders whose spectacular inability to…

Comment this storyCommentThousands of miles and circumstances separate a Jewish cleric based in Maryland and a death row inmate in Texas. But the lives of the two men have been entwined with dozens of handwritten letters over the past…

photo credit: pixabay *Editor's Note: A new series on the Holocaust from Alex Grobman, PhD The question of how and why the Holocaust occurred in Western civilization remains a matter of concern because it reveals…

It was supposed to be a dream job. When Anna Rajagopal told me about Avodahthey understood it to be a “non-profit social justice group that works specifically with recent college graduates and young Jews between the ages of 21 and…

(RNS) - The Reverend Jerry Pillay, the Presbyterian minister elected general secretary of the World Council of Churches last month, takes the helm as the global ecumenical body is already under pressure to expel the Russian Orthodox Church…

FIFA President Gianni Infantino. (Photo: UN, via Wikimedia Commons) By Issam KhalidiThe Russian invasion of Ukraine and the international sympathy with Ukraine illustrates the hypocrisy and double standards that the West employs in…

A bullet through the kitchen window. The parents of my good friend, Jan Perry, had purchased land in Woodmere, just outside of Cleveland. Well, they didn't buy it. They couldn't because they were black. Instead, they asked a black man…

Orlando, FL (June 24, 2022) – Attorney Gary S. Lesser, managing partner of West Palm Beach-based Lesser, Lesser, Landy & Smith, PLLC, was sworn in today as the 74th President of the Law Society of Florida. More than 500…

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By James Finn | DETROIT - Somewhere in the United States this morning, a young girl is pregnant because she was sexually abused by someone she trusts - a parent, an uncle, a teacher, possibly a Baptist pastor from South. She is…

ILLINOIS — Two incumbent congressional representatives, Sean Casten and Marie Newman, are fighting for their political lives in Illinois' newly remapped 6th congressional district. The two battle it out in a game of political musical…

A Cleveland police officer who was once recognized as Officer of the Year is under investigation after being accused of glorifying Adolf Hitler and spreading anti-Semitism in old social media posts that resurfaced. The Cleveland Police…

The will of the people of the Holy LandLucky Star: the mighty flag of IsraelJThe other day I came across a wonderful historical treasure. The document is called The Harrison Report (I found it after thinking about naming a YouTube show by…

A motion on anti-Semitism that has sparked anger and fear among many Jewish social workers failed to pass the British Association of Social Workers' annual conference. (BASW) Friday. Jewish News revealed on Wednesday how a motion…

Dr. Wendy Lower The Houston Holocaust Museum will host free public programs in June, including a June 19 panel discussion, an author event with a National Book Award…

We've all had people in our lives who left lasting impressions on us. Most lists would start with our parents and go from there. In cases where parenting advice has been exemplary but cut short, others have come into our lives and…

It's already June and almost summer! Time seems to have sped up this year! This is what happens when an age is an air sign, which Aquarius…

Billy Wilson (Flickr/billy_wilson) Metaphysical animals: how four women brought philosophy back to life by Claire MacCumhaill and Rachel Wiseman; Doubleday, 416 pages, $32.50 In…

BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court pondered on Monday a Jewish man's attempt to force the removal of a 700-year-old anti-Semitic statue from a church where Martin Luther once preached, and said that he would deliver his verdict in the…

(May 26, 2022 / JNS) Shavuot, celebrated this year on June 5, is one of three freedom-oriented Jewish pilgrimages to Jerusalem: Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Pentecost) and Sukkot (Tabernacles). Shavuot is celebrated seven weeks after…

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Plans to build a $5 million exhibit at the Crown Heights Jewish Children's Museum to combat anti-Semitism were unveiled at the institution's annual gala dinner on Tuesday. Full Story, Photos, Video By the COLlive journalistPhotos: Itzik…

By Dr. Jan F. Dudt Professor of Biology at Grove City College and Researcher in Medical Ethics at the Institute for Faith & Freedom There is always a dilemma for Christians in how best to handle and respond to…

The obituaries are supported by a generous grant from Sinai Memorial Chapel. Zel Bauer April 4, 1931 – May 1, 2022 Zel Bauer Zel Bauer, daughter of the late Dr. Harry Greenberg and Lee Winkler Greenberg, passed from this land…

By Rabbi Dr. Dov LernerClinical Assistant Professor at the Straus Center On Wednesday, April 13, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought hosted Dr. Abraham Socher, Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies…

Each year, the highly competitive program chooses 12 to 15 scholars to spend two weeks in Berlin and Poland, where they visit key historical sites and participate in daily seminars. Run under the auspices of the Museum of Jewish Heritage…

photo credit: unsplashSimpler and healthier days From Greta Thunberg to children put on puberty blockers, the victims of the war on childhood are everywhere. They show up at environmental or gun control rallies…

In the fall, a YU student asked me an interesting question: "Do Torah Umadda apply to Sy Syms? Isn't 'Madda' only sciences and arts that can help us understand Torah, not business studies? I asked him which volume of the Talmud he is…

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The covid-19 pandemic is physical, but it strongly highlights a more disturbing pandemic besetting our world, including the United States: the moral pandemic known as selfishness. We are all sometimes selfish about unimportant things,…

LEVINE, MortonMorton P. Levine, 95, died in Atlanta, Georgia on April 26, 2022, peacefully at home surrounded by family. Morton was born on April 7, 1927 in Mt. Vernon, New York, the third son of Meyer and Esther Levine. He grew up with…

Copyright AFP 2017-2022. All rights reserved. Videos shared on social media claim to show a newly discovered original scroll of the Book of Esther, a biblical text that chronicles the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plot to…

by Kerry Dougherty Chances are you were too busy last weekend, or too smart, to bother with it. The New York Times. But if you had taken a look, like me, you would have seen this article, promoted to the front page: "In this time of!--?xml>…

The Merchant of Venice is one of my best works of Shakespeare. In a typical Shakespearean plot, it carries multiple themes of which the most dominant are socio-cultural ethics and religious morality and an attempt to universalize the…

These plagues consisted of: water turning to blood, frogs, insects, wild animals, plague of cattle, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the aforementioned death of all the firstborn Egyptian sons. According toChabad-Lubavitch Orthodox…

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the Jewish Telegraph Agency (04/04/22) drew attention to "the use of anti-Semitic dog whistles as Orbán declared victory for 'Christian Democratic politics' in Hungary". Viktor Orbán has been re-elected Hungarian Prime Minister, a victory…

by Sam Glaser The first evening of Nissan, we begin to count until the moon is full on the fifteenth. This is Seder night, our annual anniversary celebration as a nation. About 3,000 years ago, we were a slave people…

The Biden administration will add more penalties against Russia amid growing evidence of war crimes in Ukraine by Vladimir Poutineforces. 'There must be accountability,' said Secretary of State Antoine Blinken told CNN on Sunday as reports…

As chairman of the House Ethics Committee, Deutch would like to see a bit more vigorous scrutiny of behavior that doesn't violate specific rules but clearly brings discredit to the institution.The past year has brought a number of examples:…

Amid his own beclowing last week during Senate confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas pulled off a useful and remarkable concession from the judge: that, if upheld, she would recuse herself from a highly…

According to a new study of a limited number of account sponsors, nearly 80% of donor-oriented fund accounts distribute money to charities quickly enough to deplete initial contributions to those accounts within 15 years. However, the study…

Aaron's Silence Comments on Torah Portion Shemini 2022 Two young men meet a sudden and tragic death in our Torah portion. The scene is described succinctly: Nadav and Avihu, sons of Aaron, each took his brazier, put fire in it, and put…

CENTER FOR EDUCATION IN ISRAEL, Israeled.orgMarch 24, 2022March 24, 1993 — Weizman is elected president Ezer Weizman, a nephew of Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, is elected the nation's seventh president on a 66-53 vote in the…

MEMBERS of Sydney's diverse multicultural communities (pictured) took part in the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies' (JBD) We Are All Sydney (WAAS) programme, which provides free leadership training to emerging community leaders. The…

Breadcrumb Links News defense watch The march in honor of the Latvian SS Legion has been a controversial annual event, but pandemic health restrictions have forced the celebration to be canceled for the past two years.…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Ukrainian-born American businessman, convicted last year of campaign finance violations alongside a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, is seeking to help war relief efforts in Ukraine as an alternative to prison, a…

Nazis, genocide, NATO, history: Russia has no shortage of apparent justifications for its war in Ukraine.But are any of them valid? Were Russian speakers in danger in the east of the country? Is NATO expansion a material threat to Moscow?…

Michigan Daily editors do it all. In addition to being students with full course loads, they roll up their sleeves to consume media and write. For the entertainment of our loyal readership — and to celebrate a holiday that one…

dark comedy about white privilege" that "revels in discomfort" as director Gary Abrahams describes it, Admissions asks, "what are you really willing to sacrifice for your ideals?" Described as "surprising and daring" by The New York…

A new emblem has surfaced in the Ukraine-Russia conflict: a 'Z', stylized in a thick brushstroke. The "Z" has been spotted on Russian tanks invading Ukraine and…

Colleen Hogan Whether on social media or on protest signs, the fight to permanently legalize abortion has never stopped since the birth of Roe v. Wade in the 1970s. One thing remains the same in the fight: opposition in the name of…

Republican State Senator Wendy Rogers speaking January 15, 2022 at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Florence. Photo of Gage Skidmore (modified) | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0…

The Jewish Light recently spoke with Joan Berkman, president of the St. Louis Press Club and president of Face Watchers Public Relations, as part of The Lighter Side series – short interviews with interesting people from the Jewish…

Attorney Gary Betensky, a seasoned litigator with nearly 40 years of experience, joined Day Pitney LLP, an East Coast law firm with national and international reach, when it merged with Richman Greer in 2019. The firm's 300…