Posts Tagged ‘Slater’

Rabbi Stephen Slater talks about God, credits Baptist missionary parents

Rabbi Stephen Slater’s rabbinate breaks the mold in all sorts of ways. Though he graduated from the unaffiliated Hebrew College Rabbinical School, he identifies with the Conservative movement and is the only one of the suburban Boston school’s graduates to join the movement’s rabbinic group. Though Slater came to the rabbinate as the culmination of […]

From malign Soviet influence to Israel’s quest for peace — Slater explodes myths

We have been highlighting the importance of Jerome Slater’s new book that reveals a long pattern of Israeli rejection of the two-state solution. The idea that Israel simply wants peace is a myth purveyed to western audiences to cloak territorial expansion, Slater shows. Titled, “Mythologies Without End: The U.S., Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020“, […]

Lauren Slater: The frustrating inadequacy of antidepressants

     Why Prozac and its ilk so often fail, and why the future of psychiatry might be psychedelics In 1897, the French sociologist Émile Durkheim decided to study and compare the suicide rates of different religions. He found that Protestants were most likely to commit suicide, and Jews least likely. Durkheim chalked it up to […]

Craig Thomson MP – Who’s paying his legal bills? Which union is it?

Federal MP Craig Thomson has an estimated legal bill of $300,000 for his current criminal and civil proceedings which he is defending. So who is paying the bill? It is only a couple of years ago that the NSW Labor party had to pay $350,000 in legal bills for Mr Thomson so he did not go bankrupt and get […]

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