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March 1, 2013
12:20 pm

Your multiverse doesn’t explain fine-tuning

Over the last several decades, scientists have uncovered a startling fact about the laws of nature. The laws appear fine-tuned to permit life. Physicist Paul Davies observes that......

January 27, 2013
6:30 pm

The Aliyah Museum

Israel has some cool history museums. There’s the Palmach museum in Tel Aviv, or the Menachem Begin and Herzl museums in Jerusalem. These museums don’t focus on information or......

January 15, 2013
2:07 pm

What to do about global warming?

I am still gratified by the response to my post from last week, “Who doubts global warming?” It now has 94 comments among 14 threads. The disagreements range......

January 13, 2013
2:26 pm

Knowing better than the experts

When an editor promoted my recent post on this blog, “Who doubts global warming?” I was honored but also nervous. I had seen many times what happens when......

January 9, 2013
10:31 pm

Who doubts global warming?

This week, Israel faces a geshempocalypse, as comedian Benji Lovitt has called it. The storm is causing hundreds of millions of shekels in damage across the country. Meanwhile,......

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December 30, 2012
11:54 pm

The Buffalo Grove Aliyah

In the modern history of Israel, immigrations often came in great waves. There were the waves of aliyah from Europe, then Yemen, Iraq, Morocco, Russia, Ethiopia, Argentina, France, and......

December 25, 2012
12:04 am

A tragic climate at the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is America’s most widely circulated newspaper. Since 1889, its editorial pages have had an authoritative voice in American politics. But the newspaper has lost all credibility......

December 24, 2012
8:04 am

The culture of Daf Yomi

“You also learn Daf Yomi?” “Yeah!” “I have a question from yesterday that’s been bothering me…” “Here's how I understood that…” Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin hatched the Daf Yomi program in 1923,......

December 21, 2012
5:26 pm

You versus the true you

Who are you? Not your name, not your career—who is the true you? In this week’s Torah portion, Parashat Vayyigash, Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers. The emotional moment......