Listen This book has a simple thesis: God’s central demand of human beings is to act ethically…Though this book is, I hope, informative about many Jewish teachings, it would be very disappointing if you were to conclude after reading it, ...
Listen Among all the nations of antiquity, there prevailed to a greater or lesser extent the horrid custom of exposing newborn children, or putting to death not only the newborn but even older children. Sometimes they were strangled, immolated, drowned, ...
Listen The terrible, evil, wicked business of cash advance which unfortunately has trapped some of our brethren, our Jewish brethren that are in that business. Some of them are even founders of evil companies that are lending money with high ...
Listen “God is good to all, and His mercy is upon all His works” (Psalms 145:9). This verse is the touchstone of the rabbinic attitude toward animal welfare, appearing in a number of contexts in Torah literature. At first glance, ...
Listen For all these reasons, the honest conclusion must be that it is virtually impossible today to live in accordance with Jewish religious requirements if one is party to the consumption of animal products, especially in Western society; and that ...
Listen Childhood is said to be the happiest period in life. So it should be. Every child has the right to be born happy. The sunshine of love is as necessary to the development of the child’s nature as the ...
Listen Scriptural law is explicit in making the king subject to all God’s laws, “that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, and to do them” (Deut. ...
Listen Thus hath said the Lord of Hosts, saying : Execute true justice, and show kindness and mercy every man to his brother. And defraud not the widow or the fatherless, the stranger or the poor; and imagine not evil ...
Listen Corruption is the cancer at the heart of so many of our problems in the world today. It destroys jobs and holds back growth, costing the world economy billions of pounds every year. It traps the poorest in the ...
