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No God, no moral society

Dennis Prager February 2, 2011

Every reader of this column — no matter how alienated from religion — is familiar with the adage, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Even the United Nations issued a postage stamp with these words chiseled into stone. I suspect, however, that many people who are familiar with this verse either have no idea where it’s from, or believe it’s from the New Testament. In fact, it is from the Torah, the very middle of it, as if to say, “this is what the Torah is all about.”

Honor your father and mother

Dennis Prager January 19, 2011

To make the case for the Torah, I can think of no better verse with which to begin than the fifth of the Ten Commandments: “Honor your father and your mother so that your days be lengthened on the land that I give you.” Proper understanding — and living by — this commandment is indispensable to making a good society. And to properly understand it, perhaps the most important point to be made is that the Torah commands that we honor our mother and father; it never commands us to love them.

The Case for the Torah

Dennis Prager January 5, 2011

With this first column of the year, I have decided to devote a number of my columns this year to making the case for the Torah.

A Yeshiva boy and Christmas

Dennis Prager December 15, 2010

When I was 20, I spent my junior year in college in England. When classes let out for the last two weeks of December, I traveled to Morocco, where something life-changing occurred.

Prager shouldn’t lose his museum post

David Klinghoffer February 15, 2007

For Prager is one of a handful of America\’s most valuable Jews. Why? Because of the role he has taken as a foremost Jewish spokesman for the Bible. I don\’t mean he\’s some sort of radio preacher. But when appropriate, in his daily discussions with callers on political and cultural subjects, he often brings in a scriptural perspective — without apology, always with a light touch, as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

Prager’s presence no longer benefits Holocaust Museum

Michael Berenbaum February 15, 2007

Jews, who constitute 3 percent of the American people, were considered for most of the past half century 33.3 percent of the American religious experience, and this reflected itself in civic ceremonies, such as presidential inaugurations, when priests, pastors and rabbis were invited to participate. Those times have passed.

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