When Reality Refuses to Cooperate with Theory Modern ideologies that claim to explain the world often do so through seemingly elegant, simpl...

Bret Stephens says, "Antisemitism is not merely a form of hatred. It is a conspiracy theory about how the world works."  He is not...

I have argued that Jewish ethics can become the basis for a secular morality.  But not being incompatible with secularism is not the same as...

We have described a three-tier framework for Jewish ethics: The Values Tier  (life, dignity, truth, justice, etc.) The Adjudication Tier  (w...

So far, we have emphasized the Jewish sources and inspiration for Western ideas and philosophies that have been instrumental in the US Const...

Can ethics exist without a religious framework? This has been a fundamental question ever since the Enlightenment first separated moral reas...

Are Jewish ethics just a component of Jewish law, or are they overlapping but distinguishable concepts? At first blush, it appears that from...

During the Enlightenment, some of the most famous Western philosophers were inspired by physics. The simple beauty of Newtonian equations, l...

Previously, we have discussed and listed a set of Jewish ethical values.   However, a list of values is not enough to build an ethical syste...