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United States

You Got to Have Friends

Episode 104: Brooke Kroeger on the men behind women’s suffrage, and German-Danish historian Thorsten Wagner on teaching ethics at Auschwitz

By Unorthodox · September 7, 2017
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The Scroll

Jay Solomon’s Firing Is a Cautionary Tale

The former foreign affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal was fired after the AP discovered the columnist was allegedly involved in commercial dealings with an Iranian-born arms dealer

By Armin Rosen · June 23, 2017
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The Scroll

Immoral Esther?

Examining the ethics of the Purim story

By Tyler Samuels · March 4, 2015
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Family

Ethical Parenting Is More Than Possible. It’s Essential, for Parents and Children Alike.

Don’t break the rules just to help your kids get ahead. Teach them to be mensches by setting an example with your own behavior.

By Marjorie Ingall · October 17, 2013
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What Spinoza Knew and Neuroscience Is Discovering: ‘Free Will’ Doesn’t Exist

In a new book, Heidi Ravven draws on philosophy, history, and neuroscience to argue that ethical behavior comes from looking outward, not within

By Vox Tablet · July 1, 2013
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Television

Breaking Bad Karma

How the cancer victim at the center of the AMC series justifies my skepticism of Holocaust survivors

By Anna Breslaw · July 13, 2012
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Book Reviews

Why Obama Should Read Trilling

Inertia is its own moral choice, the great critic argued, a point to remember when facing the crisis in Syria

By Yoav Fromer · July 5, 2012
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Family

Hello, Wilbur

If we love adorable animals in children’s books, are we ethically obliged to raise our kids vegetarian?

By Marjorie Ingall · May 10, 2010
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The Scroll

Rabbis Should Sermonize on Ethics

In wake of Madoff and other scandals, says Yeshiva president, others

By Hadara Graubart · September 18, 2009
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