Fighting to the death?

I love this time of year when spring is turning into summer, when my squash plants are producing and the tomatoes are promising, when mosquitoes have yet to emerge full force. The massive greenness of the season and the delightful counterpoint of bright flowers here...

Memorial Day, Israelite style

Somewhere on a battlefield in the hill country north of what would later be called Jerusalem, a band of Israelite men finally tired of chasing a contingent of Philistine soldiers who were, uncharacteristically, running away from them. Their flight, according to the...

Twisting statistics

As a congressional vote nears to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy requiring gays to stay in the closet to stay in the military, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Baptist Press has stepped up efforts to oppose the...

My anniversary card

The various issues that normally find their way into this blog are no less important today than any other day, but my mind is elsewhere. Today, the world can wait.This 26th of May is the 26th anniversary of the day that Jan and I stood before friends and family to...

Recover the original Torah? Dream on.

A conservative Israeli university that seeks to connect ancient Torah traditions with modern technology and research  sponsored a symposium on recovering the Torah last week, according to the Jerusalem Post. The article, sadly, reads more as a promotional piece...