by Jack Moline | Jan 18, 2022 | Opinion
There is a natural resistance to change among those who uphold a culture of tradition. And since most of us uphold such a culture in one context or another, there is a natural resistance to change for most of us. Our traditions ground us, and even when we recognize...
by Jack Moline | Dec 27, 2021 | Opinion
My professional life has been in the interfaith world for a number of years, and if this short essay doesn’t prove it, nothing will. The word davka is Hebrew and defies explanation. It was the first word I struggled to understand in seminary, where my teacher...
by Jack Moline | Nov 17, 2021 | Opinion
It was a small story in The Washington Post in May 2015. A young man named Glory Aganze Barongozi spoke of his time in Baltimore as a refugee from Uganda, and how ready he was to leave as his high school graduation neared. He felt small in Africa. He felt smaller in...
by Jack Moline | Oct 22, 2021 | Opinion
A decent education teaches you to think. In my life, that statement has been as self-evident as the unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence. After all, an effective education is not just the transfer of information from book to brain but includes the...
by Jack Moline | Oct 20, 2021 | Opinion
I have the very good fortune of knowing the United States Senate’s biggest baseball fan, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Among the books he keeps close at hand is an edition of Baseball Almanac so that he can be prepared to settle any argument over America’s pastime and...
