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January 16, 2013
Birthright Shabbat, Part 2
I don’t often write about the same subject in consecutive weeks, but because my “Birthright Shabbat” column last week elicited an unusual amount of feedback, I thought I’d share some of it with you, as well as build on the idea.
Michael Tolkin: A new low
As I explained — yet again — in my last column, I made the case in my original column, “Why Is Murder Wrong?” “that if there is no God who declares murder wrong, murder is not, in fact, wrong. While human beings can believe that murder is wrong, without God, right and wrong are our moral opinions, not moral facts.”
Did the Nazis like life?: A response to Dennis Prager
In his Jan. 4 column, Dennis Prager reproved the dutiful readers of the Jewish Journal, who tried to quarrel with the idea that without God there’s no moral restriction on murder. After reading that, I traded e-mails with a thoughtful friend.
Yes, there is a Jewish lobby
Sorry to burst everyone’s branding bubble, but there is a “Jewish lobby.” It happens to be pro-Israel because it’s Jewish — not the other way around.
Israel’s Supreme Court allows evacuation of E-1 Palestinian tent city
Israel\’s Supreme Court ruled that the government can dismantle a Palestinian tent city set up in the controversial E-1 area.
Obituaries: Jan. 11-17
Sonia Altman died Nov. 10 at 85. Survived by niece Malonie (Robert Neville) Banen; 1 grandniece. Mount Sinai
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