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Is Tolerance Good Enough?
By
Brad Hirschfield
Whom do you find virtually intolerable when it comes to faith, politics or any of the other topics which we are often told are not good topics for polite conversation? If you are like most Americans, whoever is on your list, the list is probably growing, as we become increasingly intolerant of each other. I…
Who Knows God and Who Knows About God
By
Brad Hirschfield
The Pew poll of religious knowledge, in which atheists/agnostics scored ever-so-slightly higher than Jews and Mormons demonstrates at least four significant facts about what we know and why we know it. Appreciating these facts would go a long way toward ending the ugly fighting between theists and atheists. Of course they would need to want…
Fortune Cookies and Fortune Tellers, Same as Judaism and Christianity?
By
Brad Hirschfield
Woody Allen, interviewed by Dave Itzkoff, in today’s New York Times was a bit uncomfortable when wished a happy Jewish New Year by his interviewer, responding “That’s for your people”. However, he went to say some very interesting things about faith and religion. “To me,” Mr. Allen said, “there’s no real difference between a fortune…
How Religious Are Israelis? How religious Are You?
By
Brad Hirschfield
Just-released polling data shows that when asked, only 42% of Israelis defined themselves as secular, and of those 82% conduct a Passover Seder and 24% attend synagogue services over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur! What’s all this mean and why is it important? For starters, it suggests that the language we are offered by pollsters,…
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