Then and Now
Those who know me are aware that I don't have much of a sense of fashion. Before I met my wife, in fact, the very idea that there were clothes with colors that "match," or that certain colors look better on me than others, was unfathomable. I would … [Continue reading] about What to Wear?
Corporations are legal fictions, and recent ones at that. Growing out of royal and governmental "charters" in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, governments gave to individuals the right to create a legal body - a legal "person" - distinct … [Continue reading] about Corporations and Covenents
I recently had the opportunity to speak at Connecticut College on the topic of poverty and its relief in Jewish thought. It was great fun, in part because the discussion helped me to better articulate something that has been bothering me for some … [Continue reading] about Poverty and its Relief
I recently read Jenna Weissman Joselitt's book Set in Stone: America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments and discussed it with my class. The book tells a story about how and why Americans made the Ten Commandments a focal point for larger issues - … [Continue reading] about Selling the Ten Commandments
The "Ten Commandments" occupy an iconic place in popular imagination. Whether as a result of Cecile B. DeMille's epic 1956 retelling or not, most of us know the basic outline of the story: Moses goes up Sinai where God gives him the Ten … [Continue reading] about What are the Ten Commandments?