The field of Jewish ethics is never far from foundational questions about how to do Jewish ethics – and these questions are inseparable from other kinds of scholarly conclusions or prescriptions. In ...
In 1975, Newsday published a story about the efforts of a 19-year-old State University at Stony Brook sophomore, Michael ...
The April 1-2 conference in Rome brought together Catholic and Jewish scholars from around the world to the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas to deepen the theological foundations of ...
The major part of our Torah portion, Mishpatim, raises important questions about Judaism, religion in general, ethics, and law. First, the nature of Judaism. I have a brief definition of Judaism: a ...
All around the world, in preparation for the High Holy Days, Jews are doing the inner spiritual work right now of cheshbon hanefesh, or accounting of the soul. This typically entails examining ...
This was drafted before the latest cease-fire announcement but I don’t feel like letting anyone off the hook. Nothing I’ve said before changed anything, so let me try again. I’ve no doubt that ...
Judaism is based on a construct of ethical codes of conduct that are taught at weekly gatherings. Each week on Saturday mornings, Jews come together to read a weekly portion of the Torah (Old ...
The issue now isn’t whether or not to use AI — the genie is already out of the bottle — but how to ensure we use it for good, says Orly Lobel. Will the advent of artificial intelligence usher in a new ...
Upset by her husband's cruel remarks about her excess pounds, the woman turned to an advice column. She has "many other good qualities," she wrote, but her husband feels her size "somehow says to ...
The Center for Jewish Food Ethics (CJFE) is looking to shift Jewish communal food culture. CJFE encourages communities to adopt sustainable food policies, while practical strategies to help them do so ...
Yoav Schlesinger’s career path has been “delightfully nonlinear,” from nonprofit leadership, to tech ethics and, now, small-town government.