Bin Laden’s Burial and Other Religious Frauds
Bin Laden’s Burial and Other Religious Frauds By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach   The bizarre burial of Osama bin Laden at sea – an action necessitated by our government’s need to accommodate Islamic law requiring that a Muslim be buried within 24 hours of death – raises urgent question

posted 3:41:11pm May. 16, 2011 | read full post »

An American Marvels at South Africa
This week I visited South Africa on a lecture tour to three of its cities. It is not my first trip to South Africa since the end of apartheid. It’s my fifth. Still I never cease to marvel at the miracle of racial harmony that is this remarkable nation. In Cape Town you don’t feel it as much, see

posted 4:12:42pm Mar. 31, 2011 | read full post »

War Cry of the Values-Based Parent
 Touché. The man has a point. America as a nation would probably get an overall A in the success department but a D minus in getting along with each other. With half the population divorced, families disintegrating all around us, and some nutjob shooting up innocent bystanders about every othe

posted 10:41:18am Jan. 21, 2011 | read full post »

The Morality of Gay Adoption
    On Tuesday night, December 14, Rosie O'Donnell and I will be conducting a public conversation in New Jersey about families and kids, the celebrity culture and the affects of fame, balancing work and career, and learning how to inspire our children.   It's a subject Rosie is emine

posted 4:05:17pm Nov. 24, 2010 | read full post »

The Centrality of Marriage in a Cynical Age
    So forty percent of Americans in a Pew Research and Time magazine poll think that marriage is caput. And who can blame them? Marriage in our time is such a bore that eighty percent of married couples use their one date night a week, usually a Saturday, to go to a movie. Here they have

posted 12:49:53pm Nov. 19, 2010 | read full post »