by Jack Moline | Jul 20, 2021 | Opinion
I was chatting with a new friend of my generation about the changing circumstances in which we live. I am a rabbi, though out of the congregational setting after more than 35 years, and he is a pediatrician. Each of us acknowledged that certain practices that were...
by Jack Moline | Jun 23, 2021 | Opinion
Social scientists will tell you that every culture has its standards of personal space – that comfort zone around the body into which uninvited intrusions are unwelcome. You can search online for what any given society holds as its standard, but you yourself know how...
by Jack Moline | Jun 3, 2021 | Opinion
I have viewed with alarm the increase in antisemitic attacks on Jews here in America as well as in other parts of the world. Sometimes rhetorical, sometimes physical, from New York to Los Angeles, Jews and Jewish institutions have been assaulted by individuals and...
by Jack Moline | Apr 15, 2021 | Opinion
My father and both of my grandfathers were businessmen. That is to say, they owned and operated small businesses. My father’s business was office supplies and furniture. My mother’s father was an independent plumber. My dad’s dad, good with his hands, worked in a...
by Jack Moline | Mar 15, 2021 | Opinion
Albert Einstein famously proclaimed that he did not believe God played dice with the universe. As with all such pithy sayings from famous skeptics – especially ones that seem to reveal an unexpected feature of an internal landscape – a lot of people of faith have...
