Rabbi Eugene Korn Resentment, rage and the desire to lash out at others no longer threatening us make us slaves to the past. http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=285226 Read more

As Neil Armstrong’s memorial takes place, it’s good to remember why Nasa kept Aldrin’s surreal lunar ceremony under wraps http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/13/buzz-aldrin-communion-moon?CMP=email Read more

If gay marriage is legalised in England, teachers and others could be forced out of their jobs if they fail to endorse such unions, a top lawyer says. http://www.christian.org.uk/news/teachers-face-sack-if-they-don%E2%80%99t-endorse-gay-marriage/?e140912 Read more

Islamists stoke resentment of the West—and anger over the long decline of Muslim influence—to serve their own violent ends. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444017504577647880299665696.html Read more

Nathan Harden’s “Sex and God at Yale” graphically shows what moral bankruptcy and relativism has produced at the Ivies. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/09/6214?utm_source=RTA+Hannon+Ivy+Sex&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

A California bill allowing children to have three legal parents will not help children, but instead will unnecessarily complicate their lives. The supposed need for California’s SB 1476 flowed directly from the drive to normalize same sex parenting and recognize same sex unions. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/09/6197?utm_source=RTA+Morse+3-parent&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

Rape is tragic, awful, horrible, gut-wrenching—an unspeakable crime of great emotional harm—but rape is essentially irrelevant to the morality of abortion. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/09/6229?utm_source=Copy+of+RTA+Morse+3-parent&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

Republicans and Democrats may not have much common ground this election year, yet their national conventions shared one feature: Both gatherings were blessed from the podium by prominent American rabbis. http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/09/06/3106216/meir-soloveichik-vs-david-wolpe-two-rabbis-two-parties-two-political-philosophies Read more

Mark Tooley Miroslav Volf of Yale Divinity School, while offering recent talking points for how Christians should approach the election, insisted there was “no debate” over capital punishment. Jesus Christ’s defending the adulturess from stoning clearly rejected any death penalty. Christians should “push” candidates to “abolish” capital punishment. Robert Gagnon of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary challenged Volf on Facebook . . . http://juicyecumenism.com/2012/09/03/gregory-peck-miroslav-volf-christianity-and-lethal-force/ Read more

“Now,” said the rabbi, “Go home and tell your husband you spat in my face seven times!” http://www.timesofisrael.com/at-the-tombs-of-the-sages-in-tiberias-legends-and-folk-tales-come-alive/ Read more