יום שבת, י״ט תמוז תשפ״וSaturday, July 4, 2026
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Rabbi Yonason Goldson is director of Ethical Imperatives, LLC. He is an ethics speaker, strategic storyteller, TEDx presenter, and author. He is also a recovered hitchhiker and circumnavigator, former newspaper columnist, and retired high school teacher. Visit him at http://ethicalimperatives.com.
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To ignore or negate the extraordinary achievements of this country is the most reprehensible expression of ingratitude.
If you’re searching for ethical leadership, first look in the mirror
Only when we understand the other side of the argument can we truly understand our own.
Resist the subversion of darkness in the name of enlightenment
We need more than soap and water to stay clean. We need genuine commitment to a life of ethical idealism.
It’s time we embrace the better angels of our nature
Why the Tower of Babel is more relevant now than ever
How right does the right thing have to be for us to do it?
A brief reflection on friendship in times of darkness
The Counter-Intuitive Truth: Distance CAN Bring Us Closer
So how do we determine the right answer? We can start by acknowledging that there may be no right answer.
To know where we’re going, we need to remember where we’ve been
The sign above the doorpost
We will make it through this. But the best way to prevent a future crisis is to learn from the last one. Aside from whatever medical safeguards we end up putting in place, we will serve our own best interests by learning the lessons of personal responsibility and discipline
Take a chance-become a champion.
It was not devotion to G-d that took the lives of innocents in a Jersey City grocery store. It was self-serving distortion of G-d’s teaching masquerading as religious ardor while revealing itself as disdain for the divine spark that resides within living soul.
For a better life, look for--and forward to--the unexpected
The battle for the soul of Western Civilization will be won when voices of rational debate and civil discourse join together against ideological extremism on both sides of the aisle.
Independence Day reflections on leadership, vision, and courage
In a sense, we are prisoners of our biology and experience. But that doesn’t mean we can’t find the key to freedom. And that’s what free will really is all about.
Signs that the partisan pendulum is finally swinging back?
What happened to Ben Shapiro? Not what you think. Not what he thinks.
Republican PR blitz presumes that the party loyalty of American Jews can be weakened by a two-pronged attack. First, invoking American policy toward Israel. Second, attributing the resurgence of anti-Semitism to liberal political policy. Both assumptions are flawed,...and here’s why
If we insist on holding our leaders to unreasonable standards of perfection, we will place our fate in the hands of two-dimensional caricatures who lack both the wisdom and the experience to lead.
In contrast to popular misconceptions, cremation is neither environmental nor dignified. Burial in the earth reaffirms the eternal cycle of creation, birth and rebirth, passage and transition. It reinforces our awareness of the eternity of the human soul and the unending mission of the Jewish people
Airplane armrests: the next battleground in the gender war?
The universal lesson of Chanukah through the prism of fluted glass
Certainly, there are many more substantial stories in the headlines than baseball and tacos. But the refinement we bring to our little conversations helps fashion the quality of our discussions about weightier matters.
What the Kavanaugh imbroglio teaches us about dignity and justice
The journey to success follows the path of moral courage.
How progressive innovation gave rise to discord and vigilantism
Our phones and computers can be gateways to inexhaustible knowledge and wisdom. Too often, however, they are distractions from reality, blurring the lines between the world as it is and the world as we want it to be.
So let’s get this straight: the owner credits herself with heroism for making herself uncomfortable by asking Huckabee Sanders to leave thereby sparing her employees discomfort by refusing service to someone with whom they disagree.
It’s downright shameful that most of us don’t give more than a passing thought to Memorial Day. What could be more important than remembering the principles of freedom and those who sacrificed to preserve it?
As long as we remember all Jerusalem stands for, we will carry her in our hearts and in our minds wherever we go, wherever we are
Inevitably, the culture of thought-policing has affected college students the same way radar-equipped patrol cars affect traffic. Everyone slows downs and tries to blend in, determined not to take any chances
Beginning this Friday evening, we celebrate a revolution that changed the world 3330 years ago. Mankind awoke to a new reality as headlines around the world reported how a small and downtrodden people had thrown off the shackles of slavery and embarked on a mission of higher purpose.
I propose a new adage based on a recent study: Depression is good for you. No, not that kind of depression. Economic depression – as in the Great Depression.
There is a reason why we say when in Rome, do as the Romans do. It’s not merely to avoid draconian penalties for what we consider minor offenses. It’s because good manners dictate that a guest shows respect for his host.
After a seemingly endless parade of financial, political, and sexual scandals, we finally arrived at the most ignominious one of all: this week’s government shutdown.
Love him or hate him, you have to admire Donald Trump’s genius for manipulating the media. What’s even more impressive is the way he’s been beating them at their own game.
Look into the darkness, to search for the source of faithful illumination that can guide us along the path of spiritual integrity. The flames of the Chanukah menorah shine bright out of the deepest darkness, when the days are shortest and the cold of winter has descended.
People ask if I’m worried about my son, a lone soldier in the Israeli army. Most of them don’t understand my answer: "All in all, I think he’s safer than he’s ever been"
The greatest impediment to peace is often the will to make peace. Like it or not, we have to share our world with others who see the world differently, who have their own desires and dreams, who believe themselves justified in demands that contradict our own.
What effect do the proliferation of sex-scandals have on our culture? As with so many things, there’s good and there’s bad. The real question is: which outweighs the other?
WHO can we trust? WHO is telling the truth?
For those who identify as observant Jews, as children of Torah, and as students of the sages, it is inexcusably perverse to embrace the tactics of the street in order to defend a lifestyle of spiritual and moral refinement.
The Media is complicit in racial divides by providing hate-mongers like Sharpton & Zogby a platform.
July 3, 2026 
