Although born to Jewish parents, Brian Keating was raised a Catholic, and remembers being draw to the religion as child. Later in life, Keating—a professor of cosmology and the author of several books—rediscovered Judaism and became observant. He discusses the relationship between his academic work and his religious beliefs with Adam Jacobs:

I don’t look to the Torah for science. It’s crystal clear to me that Torah is not a science book. . . . And that’s why I think every scientist needs it, because doing science is the practice of people, and people need wisdom. To practice science (which means “knowledge” in Latin) divorced from wisdom is the ultimate form of pointlessness, as if a surplus of knowledge is tantamount to moral wisdom.

I think science struggles with a meaning crisis, and that what we do is important, but if it’s just used for technology or acquisition of knowledge for its own [sake], then there’s a pointlessness to it. I think to be a complete human being, you need to have both the knowledge that science uniquely can provide, and that the Torah cannot, about the natural world. [But] it’s functionally useless to acquire knowledge without any associated wisdom coming from it or leading to it.

To Keating, that sort of moral wisdom can come only from religion.

Examining the Trump administration’s proposals for the people of Gaza, Danielle Pletka writes:

I do not believe that the forced cleansing of Gaza—a repetition of what every Arab country did to the hundreds of thousands of Arab Jews in 1948— is a “solution.” I don’t think Donald Trump views that as a permanent solution either (read his statement), though I could be wrong. My take is that he believes Gaza must be rebuilt under new management, with only those who wish to live there resettling the land.

The time has long since come for us to recognize that the establishment doesn’t have the faintest clue what to do about Gaza. Egypt doesn’t want it. Jordan doesn’t want it. Iran wants it, but only as cannon fodder. The UN wants it, but only to further its anti-Semitic agenda and continue milking cash from the West. Jordanians, Lebanese, and Syrians blame Palestinians for destroying their countries.

Negotiations with Hamas have not worked. Efforts to subsume Gaza under the Palestinian Authority have not worked. Rebuilding has not worked. Destruction will not work. A “two-state solution” has not arrived, and will not work.

So what’s to be done? If you live in Washington, New York, London, Paris, or Berlin, your view is that the same answers should definitely be tried again, but this time we mean it. This time will be different. . . . What could possibly make you believe this other than ideological laziness?