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Category Archives: Ethics
Do You Really Want To Become A Better Person?
I remembered how charged up I got about becoming a better person when I started listening to Dennis Prager on the radio in the fall of 1988. It’s been tough. My progress in this department has been spotty if at … Continue reading
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Tagged 13 reasons, Dennis Prager, high holiday services, jewish new year, moral courage, new year sermon
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Young Secular Americans Struggle To Think Morally
Dennis Prager writes: Last week, David Brooks of The New York Times wrote a column on an academic study concerning the nearly complete lack of a moral vocabulary among most American young people. Below are some excerpts from Brooks’ summary … Continue reading
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Tagged cheating in school, david brooks, Dennis Prager, moral choices, moral dilemma, moral lives
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Self-Control in an Age of Excess By Daniel Akst
This book sounds like a great idea that is shoddily executed. The New York Times says: Mr. Akst’s attempt to touch on the whole web of influences on human behavior, however, leads him frequently to veer off the central subject … Continue reading
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Yisroel Pensack: Some Thoughts on the Sentencing Hearing of Sholom Rubashkin
A sentencing hearing in the financial fraud case of former Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse manager and Lubavitcher chassid Sholom Rubashkin is scheduled to begin tomorrow (Wednesday) in federal court in Iowa. There is a concept in Judaism that each Shabbat “blesses,” … Continue reading
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Tagged animal slaughter, chillul Hashem, conduit for blessing, confession, egypt, federal court, Iowa, lubavitcher, lubavitcher rebbe, Pesach sheni, Rashi, sacrificing animals, second Passover, sentencing hearing, shabbat, Sholom Rubashkin, wages, weights and measures, yom kippur
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The Mean Streets
I’ve walked down some mean streets in my life and met a lot of bad guys who frequently have keener insights into life than the good guys. People become good by having consideration for others. Take David Suissa for example. … Continue reading
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Tagged 24 jack bauer, heroin addiction, Jewish Journal, ramon salazar, sociology women, tv show 24
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