Maleficent, Mirror Mirror, and Moral Relativism
There I was, happily going about my day – on my way from work, driving the kids some...
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Maleficent, Mirror Mirror, and Moral Relativism
Maleficent, Mirror Mirror, and Moral Relativism
This is written in the style of a Harvard case study. It is an allegory; imagine a re...
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California School Asks 8th Graders To Debate Whether Hiroshima Happened
Following their earlier wildly successful but somewhat controversial debate exercise, a s...
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Yom Hashoa 5774-2014
Imagine a huge tree, with a trunk so wide you cannot reach around it, an extensive root sy...
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Ode to Grandparents
Today, 11 April, my family marks my father’s liberation from Buchenwald concentration ca...
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News about the community: a user’s guide
A couple of articles were published recently (in The Age and the Herald Sun) about the lat...
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Justice vs Community
Following the tragic death of a young member of the Melbourne Jewish community, there has...
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Kapital Nun
I’ve been saying kapital nun (chapter 50 of Tehillim) daily for a while now. Ma...
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Saved from MH370?
Following the awful disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, an interesting story...
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Repost: 50 Thousand Haredim March So Only Other Jews Die in War
This was posted on the JewishPress web site, then removed and the writer sacked. I’m...
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Matthew McConaughey invokes God
How do you confuse and confound an auditorium full of rich, beautiful, self-important, f...
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Child Sexual Abuse advocacy losing its way?
It started last October, with the release of a statement by advocacy group Tzedek announci...
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