Jewish ethics

Idle chatter and its modern discontents.

Aug. 28 2024 12:01AM

Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Eliezer Berkovits, and the philosophy of halakhah.

Yonatan Brafman
Nov. 27 2023 12:01AM

“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?”

Jeremiah Unterman
March 2 2023 12:01AM

Beware the Teflon gossip.

April 8 2022 12:01AM

The Talmud understands “love the stranger” to mean “love the convert.” Does it also apply to other strangers?

Oct. 26 2021 12:01AM

A bizarre talmudic tale teaches that no man is too wise for the commandments.

Nahum Eliezer Rabinovitch
Oct. 9 2020 12:01AM

To be morally responsible, we must commit to the good in advance of grasping its requirements in full.

Alex Ozar
Aug. 31 2020 12:01AM

For the Torah, a crime against a human is a crime against God.

Jeremiah Unterman
July 31 2020 12:01AM

Halakhah and the trolley problem.

Shmuel Reichman
June 9 2020 12:01AM

Stemming from a God who stands above nature.

Jeremiah Unterman
Feb. 11 2020 12:01AM

Where cruelty was encouraged and compassion punished.

Helen Plotkin
Nov. 15 2019 12:01AM

The ends don’t justify the means.

March 26 2019 12:01AM