The Answer to Antisemitism
The answer to antisemitism is pro-Semitism.
Dr. Paul Socken is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and founder of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Waterloo.
Jews are a people of hope, not despair. The eternal people is not afraid of a long journey.
Because words, written and spoken, have enormous impact and influence on individuals and on nations, they must be used with precision and accuracy.
How can someone be not only right, but one hundred percent right, and also wrong?
To lie and distort for a cause or ideology is intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt.
If words are the language of the mind, then music is the language of the soul.
Observing society in America and Israel today, especially in the political arena, we witness behavior more suited to alpha male chimpanzees than to a civilized society of enlightened men and women.
The stories in the Talmud demonstrate the important difference between the law and the application of the law.
Menschlichkeit is one of those meaningful Yiddish words that have no English equivalent.
The ethics and moral responsibility of religious tradition and the human and aesthetic dimension of the arts have never been more relevant.