by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Nov 18, 2008 | Opinion
Jews have lived in India since the time of the Buddha, some 2,500 years ago. While this link does nothing to explain the popularity of Buddhism among Jews (the Buddha lived in northern India, the Jews, of course, preferred to live in the south), it does make it all...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Nov 13, 2008 | Opinion
The voice of fear will argue for a fixed pie, a world of limited resources, and the need to grab as much as we can as fast as we can, others be damned. The voice of love will speak of a renewable world where life is best served by doing less with less rather than more...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Nov 4, 2008 | Opinion
I recently learned of a new Jewish holiday about which I knew absolutely nothing. It’s called “Hit a Jew Day.” According to an Oct. 24 story in USA TODAY, a few students at a suburban St. Louis middle school created “Hit a Jew Day,” the...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Oct 28, 2008 | Opinion
We need a movement that will stand up to the god-inflamed madness that takes over the hearts and minds of millions, and hold up the idea of human dignity and the worth and sanctity of every human being. Not an interfaith movement that pretends religion is at its heart...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Oct 14, 2008 | Opinion
The Culture War, in fact, is not really a conflict pitting secularists and atheists against theists and people of faith, but rather a civil war among theists. The Culture War is a theological war over competing ideas of God. The engaged and malevolent God is the God...
