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...
by Jack Moline | Feb 4, 2021 | Opinion
Especially when discussing technology, I often find myself saying to someone, “I know the meaning of every word you just said, but I do not understand a thing about how they fit together.” Actually, that is mostly true. As often as not, the most confusing part is a...
by Jack Moline | Jan 12, 2021 | Opinion
Ten days before he was murdered, Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the convention of the Rabbinical Assembly, the gathering of rabbis from the Conservative Movement (denomination). He came at the invitation of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. The two men had become fast...