morality

Turn the Prism One More Time

To be honest, I really struggle in these months before an election. The tsunami of political rhetoric in and of ...

Re-creating Ethics with My Daughter

My two-year-old is now in the stage where my wife and I are torn between encouraging our daughter’s independence and our need ...

A Moral Life? Or a Meaningful Life?

A few days ago, David Brooks wrote an article entitled “The Problem of Meaning.” In our society today, and especially in ...

Liberalism, Loyalty and Israel

I am sad. I am scared. I am angry.Like many of you, over the last few weeks, I’ve been following ...

Terror in Afula, Seen from Afar

A numinous dream, last Wednesday:I am on Kibbutz Ein Dor, near the city of Afula in Northern Israel, visiting my ...

Subway sleeper, Rabbi returns cash: when people do the right thing

You may have caught a couple of stories that have been spreading virally over blogs and Face book the last ...

Petraeus: When leaders let us down

Two days ago my colleague, Amy Small, wrote a powerful piece putting the news glut on the Petraeus scandal into ...

Morally Reprehensible Behavior

For some of us in New Jersey and New York the last couple of weeks post-Sandy have been very difficult. ...