Reports of a Baleful Internet Are Greatly Exaggerated
Our digital technologies can in fact be cognitive aids.
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Re-Acquainting Ourselves: A Conversation With David Rosmarin, PhD
How can religion and spirituality help us repair our connections within ourselves, with others and with God?
Where is the Overlap of Jewish Identity and Jewish Ancestry?
Every nucleus of every cell of everything alive today is a repository of past wisdom in the form of texts that continue to inform the present.
Lessons from the COVID Congregation: A Conversation With Rabbi Rachel Ain
How will COVID change the future of American Judaism?
Floods in India: A View of Climate Change from Under the River
Dr. Luisa Cortesi shares her experiences living in places where climate change has hit far too hard for anyone to regard it as a myth.
Where Were You When…?
What’s so powerful about stories is that we can help edit or recontextualize them, especially if the events themselves were challenging at the time.
Order Amidst Chaos: How Judaism and Psychology Respond to Trauma
Jewish tradition is about confronting rather than denying negative events, not to be morbid, but as a way to reconcile with one’s past in order to move forward.
The Scientific Soul: A Conversation With Julien Musolino, PhD
What makes scientific claims scientific, and religious claims religious?
Balaam and Abraham: What They See, and What They Miss
When do we see the blessings in front of us, and when do we miss them? Or, conversely, when do we see the problems in front of us, and when do we miss those?
When Awe Fuels the Fire: A Conversation With Megan Powell Cuzzolino, EdD
One of the most powerful ways to bridge ideological barriers is to remind people that there is so much we don’t know about the world.