Tag: values

Two weeks ago I debated Michael Steinhardt, the renowned philanthropist and self-declared atheist, and Prof. Noah Feldman, arguably America's foremost thirty-something legal mind, on the subject of whether or not Jews are different based on their values.

"I have always had so many dreams. So many hopes and aspirations..."

The summer wedding season is here, and even comic book characters are getting into the act.

Last week my eldest daughter called me from Israel, where she is studying for a year in seminary, crying and terribly distraught. A girl she was friendly with from another seminary had died of anorexia. She was seventeen years old.

It is almost exactly one year since my father-in-law, Rabbi Yankel Weisberg, passed away.