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Jun 24, 2022, 12:23 PM

Is Leftism Recycled Calvinism?

INTRODUCTORY NOTE Based on the current dichotomy between the way people comparably situated are treated by the institutions of society, which is commonly referred to as “double standards,” the thought occurred to me that at least this aspect of Leftism...

Jun 9, 2022, 9:27 AM

Why are so many scientists atheists? Part IV Concluding remarks

As reluctant as its practitioners are willing to admit, science is a human activity, accompanied by all the foibles, biases, and misinterpretation of which Homo sapiens is capable. In his seminal 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas...

Jun 1, 2022, 6:54 AM

Why are so many scientists atheists? Part III: Darwinism

One day the zookeeper noticed that the orangutan was reading two books — the Bible and Darwin’s Origin of Species. In surprise he asked the ape, “Why are you reading both those books”? “Well,” said the orangutan, “I just...

May 29, 2022, 8:14 AM

Why are so many scientists atheists? Part II: The age of the Universe

“G-d does not play dice with the universe.” – Albert Einstein objecting to the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. In part I we found that each time physicists seem to be at the point of understanding the Creation of the...

May 24, 2022, 1:04 PM

Why are so many scientists atheists? Part I: The multiverse

A PERSONAL INTRODUCTION Let me state at the outset that I am not a rabbi, a talmid chacham , or a Jewish studies educator. I am just a baal teshuvah physicist who is troubled by the fact that so many...

May 18, 2022, 6:53 AM

Can It Happen Here?

“Puck: “Lord, what fools these mortals be”: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, Scene 2, v. 116. We are indeed fools to believe that the twin evils of fascism and Communism were vanquished in the 20th century. They’re back...

May 3, 2022, 11:20 AM

Medical School Malpractice

“Vayivro Elokim es haAdom b’tsalmo b’tselem Elokim boro oso zachor un’kavo boro osom” “So G-d created Man in His image, in the image of G-d He created him; male and female He created them.” -Bereyshis 1:27 (Art Scroll Stone Chumash, pp....

Apr 28, 2022, 12:08 PM

Signs of the Coming Redemption Part 3: Child’s Play

Cartoon by Pat Cross from The College Fix 2-18-2022

After my previous posts, “Desperate Times Call for Transcendent Measures,” and “Signs of the Coming Redemption,” I had hoped to return to writing about Torah-related matters, especially the conflict between science and religion. Sadly, events are moving so rapidly,...

Apr 15, 2022, 8:36 PM

Jewish Intersectionality: Trying to straddle an earthquake fault

“Elijah approached all the people and said, ‘How long will you dance between two opinions? If HASHEM is the God, go after Him! And if the Baal, go after it!” “Then Mordechai said in reply to Esther, ‘Do not imagine...

Feb 17, 2022, 2:44 PM

Signs of the Coming Redemption part 2

A fable told to me by my mother obm: Once upon a time, a crow challenged a canary to a singing contest, with a pig agreeing to be the judge. The canary went first and sang her heart out....

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I'm a native New Yorker (Brooklyn, to be precise) transplanted to the desert as a teen-ager. I hold a Ph.D in Physics from Stanford and have taught mathematics and physics at the high school, community college, and university level. I'm an adult ba'al teshuvah and label myself as centrist Orthodox and a Religious Zionist along the lines of OU, Yeshiva University, and Mizrachi.

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