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US / News Briefs / Religion

Pew Poll: 65% of Americans Say Belief in God Unnecessary for Moral Life

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Israel is an anomaly in the data with almost an even split between those who say belief in God is and isn’t a prerequisite for morality.

Pull Up a Chair

Outsourcing Morality: The "Why" Factor - Pull Up a Chair

By Israel News Talk Radio

Why are we letting Linda Sarsour, Roger Waters and enemies of Torah dictate morality in the public sphere?

Book Reviews / From the Paper

Title: Halakhic Morality: Essays on Ethics and Masorah by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

By dvora

The Rav begins his project with an in-depth examination of the first four mishnayot of Pirkei Avot, raising topics such as the sources of ethics, power and persuasion, elitism and democracy, educational philosophy, freedom and coercion, among others.

The Muqata

Dare We Be Silent on Syria?

By JoeSettler

Syria presents a fascinatingly real, morbid ethical question, similar to the questions of Darfur and Rowanda.

Fink or Swim

What’s Wrong With the Star-K Kosher Phone?

By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink

A kashrus agency should be concerned with one thing and one thing only: the kosher status of our food.

Emes Ve-Emunah

YU Must Do the Right Thing

By Harry Maryles

Yeshiva University needs to admit that mistakes were made by leaders both past and present.

Daniel Greenfield

The Shadow of the Gun

By Daniel Greenfield

Schools across the country are banning not the gun, but the idea of the gun.

Fresno Zionism

A Jewish State Can Be Democratic and Moral

By Vic Rosenthal

In an online op-ed for the New York Times, a philosophy professor presumes that democracy precludes national symbols of any specific national group and on that basis argues that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state.

Serials

Persuaded – Chapter III

By Barbara Bensoussan

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