by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
"I am not an animal!" Jerry Seinfeld.As one Jew to another, I think that Mr. Seinfeld would be deeply offended by Mr. Kaplan's empty assertion that man is but a mere animal.Last time I checked, man was made in the image of his Creator:"So God...
by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
"We straight people have done a fine job of eroding marriage ourselves."The fault, dear Rabbi, is not in our selves as sexual beings, but in our innate yetzer hara, which has become more prominent in our hedonistic, self-absorbed society. Today, individuals...
by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
I've always been told "You can't judge a book by its cover."Since when did we decide, then, that we could judge a film by its director, especially when he hasn't even shot the film yet.Contrary to the writer's contention, there was nothing in...
by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
Suissa is savvy, no question about it.Political spurts of vapid conventionalism will never carry the day in promoting peace in the Middle East. Yet clever ad campaigns will never accomplish the task, either.Tenets of religion are far more entrenched than political...
by altha-admin | Sep 24, 2011 | Articles
Monomania best describes any well entrenched chess player. Columnist Charles Krauthammer presented this compelling argument in an article shortly after Fischer's death in Iceland.The life of Bobby Fischer demonstrates fully the terrors of a human being who lives...
by altha-admin | Sep 23, 2011 | Articles
In spite of the statist bias of German philosophical and historical thinkers, George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel's final reflections on the Philosophy of History were not merely conservative, but refuted core instincts of the insistence of state as birth and support...
