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The Human Need for Culture
People need tribes and culture – things that liberalism tends to dissolve.
Judaism, Race, and Ethics
Since they have diametrically opposed impacts on society, it is virtually unintelligible to link religion and race. However much this may be so, it would be ill advised to consider them radically disconnected or as always operating as opposing forces.
COVID-19 and the Future of Ethical Imagination
How do we build more a just and compassionate world during the COVID-19 crisis?
From Grief to Holiness
Right now we are living with communal grief, if not also personal grief. It is hard to see our holiness, but it is there.
Realities on the Ground for Science and Faith Amidst COVID-19
In the midst of COVID-19, how have faith communities been grappling with questions of access and justice?
“Zooniverse” Lets You Expand Scientific Knowledge From Home
Citizen science can be a great way to feel like you’re part of something bigger.
Moral Proximity in a Time of Social Distance
The difficulty of judging our need for physical distance can turn into something much worse: moral distance.
The Science of Staying Socially Close When Physically Apart
In the time of COVID-19 and physical distancing, how can we maintain our personal and spiritual connections?
The Reality of the Coronavirus is Changing Our Social Reality, Too
Rituals transform social facts into physical realities, and so the coronavirus is forcing us to change, adapt, or maybe even lose some of those concrete and physical connections.
Darkness and Light, Cosmology and Creation – In Memory of Rabbi Adam Feldman z”l
What was that darkness? A black hole? What was that light? Electromagnetic energy? Radiation?
Striving for Teshuvah Together
We may associate the Jewish New Year with inward reflection, but the Mishnah and the commentaries are clear that Judaism treats teshuvah as a fundamentally social process.
Is Morality About Cooperation?
Morality-as-cooperation is pushing researchers in moral psychology to think more rigorously about the evolutionary background and specific processes that might give rise to moral sentiments.