Israel Returns to Africa
“A source of inspiration that teaches us what man can do in a short span of time.”
September 2, 2021
An Atheist Rabbi May Make a Good University Chaplain, but His Secular Humanist Vision Is Unlikely to Be Sustainable
Godlessness and man at Harvard.
Last week, Harvard University announced that its new chief chaplain is a nonbeliever—Greg Epstein, who received his quasi-rabbinic ordination, naturally, from the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism. While the news item invited much mockery, Samuel Goldman takes seriously both Epstein’s ideas, which he outlined in his book Good without God, and the aptness of a secular chaplain at an institution like Harvard:
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The Ingathering of Exiles Is Central to the Mission of the Jewish State
A strong and prosperous Israel is not an end in itself.
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Jordan shelled West Jerusalem—and somehow Arabs were the real victims?
An Atheist Rabbi May Make a Good University Chaplain, but His Secular Humanist Vision Is Unlikely to Be Sustainable
Godlessness and man at Harvard.
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A new theory about Qumran.