by Jack Moline | Apr 21, 2020 | Opinion
I must admit that my first experiences with interfaith engagement were selfish. I was at the age when matters I considered as affronts to Jewish people and Jewish religion animated my outreach. Active proselytizing by other faiths during the 1970s seemed to me to be...
by Jack Moline | Apr 13, 2020 | Opinion
We seem to have a fascination with work – we human beings. From the very beginning of the story we tell about ourselves in Western culture, we are first and foremost concerned about work. The first two words in the Hebrew Bible mean (depending on how you translate)...
by Jack Moline | Mar 3, 2020 | Opinion
The term “scapegoat” is famously misunderstood in its colloquial usage. It is employed to describe a person or people falsely accused of responsibility for something that is not at all the fault of the accused. In fact, as any reader of the Bible knows, the scapegoat...
by Jack Moline | Feb 4, 2020 | Opinion
I usually start my columns with something contemporary and find some resonance in a biblical verse. Ordinarily, I do not interpret and apply a verse as I might in a brief lesson in a synagogue or other religious setting. But I will offer here the exception that proves...
by Jack Moline | Jan 14, 2020 | Opinion
Human societies have a long and complicated relationship with numbers. We like to count things and then assign significance to the totals and the way we can divvy them up. Perhaps numbers are the last vestige of the human family (as depicted in the Bible) before it...
