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From the blog of Richard Kronenfeld at The Times of Israel

Dekalog: Ten's rueful observation is that we often understand and compassionate our parents only after falling into their same vices.

Posted David Colburn David Colburn Most folks are familiar with the phrase “green with envy.” While some attribute its origins to the ancient Greeks, others turn to William Shakespeare’s Othello and his declaration of jealousy as a “green-ey’d monster” as the inspiration for the phrase. Whatever its origins, green has long been the color associated with the feeling of envy. But this past Tuesday, envy took on a decidedly bluish tone for this writer, a child of the 1960s who grew up in awe of the Mercurys, Geminis, and Apollos of the race to space. And what...

Kim Shinkoskey Churches today diminish themselves by means of a badly tarnished understanding of Western religious history, and thus do no small amount of disservice to their congregations. For example, the religious laws Jews and Christians speak of so frequently, they actually do not understand. I'm speaking of the Ten Commandments. For hundreds of years, theologians and practitioners of the major Judeo-Christian faiths have operated under a virtual consensus about what these laws mean. Many, or most, have declared that God and Moses made these ten moral laws so simple that everyone forever...

For those who may not be aware, we are in the middle of an ideological war, and at the center of the battleground lies the one thing people have fought over for millennia — wealth. Before it was sticks and stones, swords, and shields. Today we battle with narratives and ideas, psychological attacks, and cancel culture (with victimhood and gaslighting thrown in for good measure). And as President Joe Biden prepares to “tax the wealthiest” of Americans (despite them already paying nearly 80% of all taxes), it’s time to dispel some myths about what truly makes people poor and...