“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” sang Joni Mitchell many a decade ago. It’s a very old theme. We are barely two chapters into Genesis when the harmony and union of the Beginning is a thing of…
Constitutions deal with the real world, which is never as simple as an attractive idea. But a constitution that is merely complex can’t serve. Who can develop a loyalty to something they cannot even understand? How could such a thing…
Now is the time of the biblical holiday of Shavu’ot, translated literally as the Holiday of Weeks, coming as it does 49 days — a week of weeks — after Passover. For millennia, this holiday has been celebrated as the…
The premise behind our Constitution is that we humans are capable of governing ourselves. It is we, the people, who ordain and ratify the governmental structure through the Constitution. We retain our sovereignty — even when we delegate certain powers…
On April 5, President Trump issued a proclamation designating that day as Education Day, and calling to mind the life and work of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, often known simply as the Rebbe. In doing so, the president continued a…
England in the 1640s was shaking apart along many fault lines. The royalists, known as the Cavaliers, fought with King Charles in his deadly struggle with Parliament. The supporters of Parliament’s supremacy fought with ever-increasing ferocity for their rights and…