For years, my husband and I had a routine for our weekly writing. He wrote Thought Tools and I edited them. I wrote Susan’s Musings and it was his turn to edit. One of us would write the Ask the Rabbi answer and the other one reviewed it. We were more heavy-handed with the latter
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All sorts of schools ranging from elementary to graduate level are abolishing grades or objective entrance exams such as the SATs. It is not a coincidence that this is happening as less learning and less transmission of verifiable skills take place. Numbers have a funny way of revealing reality. Just as most speedy drivers would
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Dear Rabbi and Susan, My husband and I will be reaching our 25th wedding anniversary next July. Our marriage was only a civil one. Ever since discovering your teachings six years ago, our path has turned toward the Lord. However, I believe our marriage is missing a covenant with God. According to Ancient Jewish wisdom,
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To read or not to read? That is the question. The item on which my mind’s debate centered wasn’t a Shakespearean play, but an article by journalist Danielle Crittenden titled, “On Losing a Daughter.” The reasons to scroll past were obvious. It was going to hit home, and chances are that it would lead to
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Dear Rabbi and Susan, I have enjoyed your content for about eight years now; I have even twice attended speeches you’ve given in the Dallas area. I hope you don’t mind me making a personal observation, it does sort of lead up to my question. I heard you mention on your show on TCT that
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Prologue: Living in an echo chamber is easy but debilitating. If we don’t encounter ideas other than our own or ones that challenge our thoughts, our minds become duller and our beliefs less stable. For this reason, I follow certain personalities with whom I disagree much of the time, but I find them rational, thoughtful,
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We’re coming up on the 156th anniversary of the April 22nd, 1870, birth of Vladimir Lenin. As the founder of the Bolsheviks, Lenin became the first head of government of Soviet Russia in 1917. The very first so-called Earth Day was set for the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s birth, April 22nd, 1970. More on that
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Dear Rabbi and Susan, What is a Biblical view of revenge and forgiveness?S.L. Dear S.L., Well, that is one way to pack a huge topic into very few words. We did change your question slightly as you specified Jewish law rather than the Bible. If you are asking in reference to a specific instance you
Dear Friend, The American Alliance of Jews and Christians was accorded a great honor this past Friday, when its president, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, was invited to open the second day of CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) in Dallas. In his remarks, Rabbi Lapin highlighted the Biblical pattern and warning to nations as they approach the
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I write this in the middle of Passover and on a day when my Christian friends are celebrating Easter. Holidays call forth memories. It’s as if we are arriving by train at a station we were at previously, but the track is a spiral rather than a circle. We are at almost the same location—just
