Intolerance, Anti-Semitism, and Praise for Terror in Palestinian Education Have Worsened
“Students should be given free time to reflect on the dangers of the Jews’ greedy ambitions in Palestine.”
June 8, 2020
Reflections from the Last Century on Racism and Jewish Responsibility
Not to feel any guilt, any troubling of the conscience, is a sign of our own moral failure.
As the lawless killing of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer has seized America’s attention, it is worth turning to a sermon given in 1966 by Rabbi Norman Lamm, who died on May 31 and was one of the outstanding American Orthodox thinkers of our time. When Lamm delivered this homily, barely over a year has elapsed since the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and less than two years would go by before Martin Luther King’s assassination. He began by contrasting Abraham’s famous reply to God’s call—“Here I am!”—with Adam’s attempt to hide himself from God in the Garden of Eden, before moving on to questions of conscience and responsibility, and then to topical issues:
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How Israel Can Fix the U.S. Peace Plan, and Why It Should
Don’t let the blessing turn into a curse.
Reflections from the Last Century on Racism and Jewish Responsibility
Not to feel any guilt, any troubling of the conscience, is a sign of our own moral failure.
How Coronavirus Will Affect China’s Growing Involvement in the Middle East
Beijing might not lose much, and could even gain.
A Highly Original Work Looks at the Pentateuch with the Sensibilities of the Psalms
After Adam.