Spying on Congress, and Leaders of Allied Nations, Is an Abuse of Executive Power
“The kind of conduct we see in third-world countries.”
January 4, 2016
Pharaoh versus the Heroic Midwives
They refused to see human procreation in purely naturalistic terms.
The book of Exodus opens with a demographic boom among the Israelite population of Egypt in the decades following the death of Joseph; this population explosion, in fact, is what spurs Pharaoh to enslave the Israelites. Failing to stem the tide, Pharaoh then issues his genocidal decree to the midwives: drown all male Israelite children. The midwives’ refusal to comply is the first of many acts of heroism in this book, as Sarah Rindner writes:
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Is the Coarsening of Political Discourse Connected with the Decline of Religion?
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The Twilight of the Jewish Lower East Side
A view without nostalgia.
Pharaoh versus the Heroic Midwives
They refused to see human procreation in purely naturalistic terms.
Melding Analytical Philosophy with Jewish Theology
In a religion that eschews doctrine.