Have you ruined Valentine’s Day yet? Give it time. You forgot an important date. You said something you shouldn’t have said (aloud). You butt-dialed someone really inappropriate. You got over-the-top angry over a trifle. Now somebody’s hurt or angry, and you’re to blame. Hey, it happens to all of us. We say or do something […]
At a community meeting in the town where I once lived, there was a woman — in her early 50s, I guessed, and new to the community — who was unable to rise from her seat when the meeting was over. I and a couple of others helped her to her feet, brought her to […]
It’s Yom Kippur, people. How’s your Day of Atonement going? Standing the test of time, with roots reaching back centuries, atoning for harms done continues to thrive in the modern world in religion and philosophy, the social and psychological sciences, law and medicine, and even works of art. Religion and philosophy Jews have so got […]