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February 05, 2018
Movie Review:
One of Us
Freedom is costly, but it's getting harder and harder for the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community to...
January 2018
January 17, 2018
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
A modern-day defense of a long-ago outrage illustrates the Catholic church's drift toward illiberalism.
September 2017
September 18, 2017
Can the Courts Make You Pretend To Be Religious?
As much as we might depend on the courts to enforce our rights, those courts...
August 2016
August 24, 2016
The Intellectual Prison of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
Trying to stop people from educating themselves is one of the worst crimes there is.
March 2016
March 28, 2016
Theocratic Fraud in Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
Religious sects and cults that conceive of themselves as serving a higher, sacred purpose will,...
November 2015
November 08, 2015
Weekend Coffee: November 8
• A Texas homeschooling family has been taken to court after allegedly refusing to teach...
August 2015
August 30, 2015
Weekend Coffee: August 30
• Oliver Sacks has died. In his final column, "Sabbath", he talks about his humanism...
August 17, 2015
Jewish Fundamentalism Is Poisoning Israel
Last month, a religious fundamentalist attacked a gay-pride parade in Jerusalem, stabbing six people. One...
May 2015
May 31, 2015
Weekend Coffee: May 31
• Rabbis in a British branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism forbid women from driving - and...
May 20, 2015
The Hypocrisy of Tolerance at the Touro Synagogue
I'm on vacation this week in New England. Yesterday I visited the Touro Synagogue in...
January 2015
January 28, 2015
The Crushing Burden of Religious Sex Guilt
This week, there was a lengthy profile of Bat Sheva Marcus, a Jewish sex counselor...
October 2014
October 05, 2014
I Get Religious Mail: Help the Jews, Emphasis on Jews
Here's the latest in the list of mistargeted religious solicitations I've gotten in the mail....
July 2014
July 16, 2014
The Battle of the Eruv
Hemant wrote about a story I also wanted to mention: the Freedom from Religion Foundation...
April 2014
April 16, 2014
On Retconning Biblical Violence
In 2009, I wrote "The Twisted Moral of Passover", about how this major Jewish holiday...
August 2013
August 28, 2013
The Political Pull of New York’s Ultra-Orthodox
New York City's mayoral election is approaching, and as the race heats up, more attention...
July 2013
July 29, 2013
Remembering the Holocaust, Respecting the Constitution
In Ohio, the state legislature recently approved a plan to build a Holocaust memorial on...
May 2013
May 11, 2013
Weekend Coffee: Snap Responses to Current Events
In the Times this week, Israel's ultra-Orthodox rabbis are enforcing gender apartheid by sending their...
November 2012
November 26, 2012
Fighting War the Biblical Way
After several days, the fragile ceasefire in the latest iteration of Israel and Gaza's endless...
March 2012
March 07, 2012
Perfecting Man’s Moral Shortcomings
In the Book of Exodus, there's a bizarrely out-of-place story that I've always found hilarious....
March 05, 2012
Book Review: Unorthodox
(Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with my policy for such...
January 2012
January 18, 2012
Fighting Gender Apartheid in Israel
The world is increasingly taking notice of the turmoil brewing in Israel, where a growing...
November 2011
November 28, 2011
Religion Imprisons Women
One hypothesis for the origin of religion is that it's a kind of "costly signaling"...
November 04, 2011
Donate Organs, Save Lives
The other day I came across this article from Bloomberg News, from which I learned...
September 2011
September 07, 2011
Book Review: God, No!
(Author's Note: The following review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site's...
August 2011
August 15, 2011
Sex and Taboos in Orthodox Judaism
In the past, I've poked fun at the Catholic church for the logical contortions it...
July 2011
July 06, 2011
On the Morality of: Circumcision
"And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that...
June 2011
June 19, 2011
Photo Sunday: Toledo
More pictures from my Spanish trip. Click the link below to see: Our second day...
January 2011
January 08, 2011
Weekly Link Roundup
• Witchcraft is now a recognized profession in Romania, subjecting its practitioners to income tax....
December 2010
December 11, 2010
Weekly Link Roundup
If blogging was my full-time job, I'd probably have written a post about each of...
November 2010
November 24, 2010
Theocrats on the March in Israel
Since I wrote recently about the evil mullahs of the Middle East who ferociously resist...
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