The Catholic church seems to be embracing an ideology similar to Islamic Fundamentalists Last week Pope Benedict XVI authorized a wider use of the old Latin Mass known as The Tridentine Mass. Immediately Abraham Foxman, of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a statement condemning this Papal decision saying that “we”…
“Those who cure you are going to kill you”
‘Those who cure you are going to kill you” were the words of a senior al-Qaeda chief in Jordan to Canon Andrew White, who runs an Anglican church in Baghdad, seemingly in reference to the physician’s plot to kill thousands in England and Scotland. Chillingly these words identify exactly what…
Right man for the job
Tony Blair’s moral clarity and compassion are just what the Mideast needs Before I decide which political party or candidate to vote for I always try and compare their policies and positions with the stated views of the Torah. The politician or party which is closest to those ideas earns…
Kabbalistic Wives
Marriage is portrayed by our culture as boring and monotonous but the Kabbalists hold the wife in very high esteem Not long ago I decided to stop off at one of London’s major shopping malls to buy a gift for my wife. I was not looking for anything fancy, just…
Resolving our compatibility issues
My computer now works perfectly and I am grateful. However getting here took tens of hours, more than a thousand dollars and much aggravation. It all started I bought a new computer to replace my old one which stopped working. The new computer had Microsoft’s latest operating system—Vista—on it. After…
Morality: A Catch-22?
If Moral Relativism leads to chaos and Moral Absolutism to tyranny, what’s left? In conversation with the president of a local university he claimed that ninety percent of his students are moral relativists. Moral Relativism, which is practically the state religion of collegiate America, asserts that there is no such…
Can Religious People be Tolerant?
It is people, not religions which are violent, and sadistic people will use religion for their cruel and evil aims. People who are tolerant and peaceful by nature will find these values within their religion Can a truly religious person really be tolerant of a heretic? Or to rephrase the…
Managing the Fallout of the US Terror Plot
After six Muslims were arrested this week for plotting a terrorist attack on an American army base I heard an interview with a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). He was expressing concern for the safety of his community and thus stressing that these six were in no…
Olmert’s backers must also go
To assume that a team that made such disastrous and obvious blunders last summer is able to fix them is to be naïve Many of us who take interest in Israel have been shocked by what has transpired there over the last week. It is inconceivable how a prime minister…
Respecting Grief
The Bible relates (Deuteronomy 14:1) how Moses tells the children of Israel: ‘you are children of God your Lord. Do not mutilate yourselves, and do not make a bald patch in the middle of your head as a sign of mourning. You are a nation consecrated to God your Lord. God has…