How Civic Religion Creates Civic Reality
We do understand that saying words doesn’t automatically make them true. But we also understand that at certain times — such as at inaugurations — words do have power.
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A Foot in Both Worlds: A Conversation with Elaine Howard Ecklund, PhD
How can we use our multiple, overlapping identities to connect better with others?
The Symbolism of Old Gods and the U.S. Capitol Assault
As people unmoored from vertically transmitted traditions cast desperately around for something to believe in, things are going to get weird. No, scratch that. Weirder.
What We Know and What We Believe: A Conversation with Tania Lombrozo, PhD
Rabbi Mitelman and Tania Lombrozo, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, discuss how our brains latch onto and reject facts, and what that has to do with belief.
The Technological Golem: A Conversation with Rabbi Rachel Gurevitz
When does a new technology become no longer ours, and how might Jewish wisdom help us anticipate how the fruits of our creations could redound back on us?
Are We Alone? Reason, Religion, and the Search for Life in the Universe
Space exploration provides a look at our need to be exceptional, and our desire to have company, in the universe.
Jewish Values on Vaccinations
Jewish law has much to say about the public health issues at play in vaccines, particularly how in this case protecting oneself is protecting many others at the same time.
Being a Rabbi to Non-Jews: A Conversation with Rabbi Rachael Jackson
Rabbi Rachael Jackson is uniquely well-situated to bring Jewish wisdom to science, and to break down some of the complex debates in science for the general population.
Jewish Ethics in COVID-19
Since none are beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, whatever is thought about it, including bioethical thinking about it, is necessarily being done from within it.
Judaism, Physics and Biology on the Origins of Life: A Conversation with Dr. Jeremy England
A conversation with Jeremy England, PhD, author of “Every Life is On Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things.”