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Wednesday, August 19 2009 9:25 AM

Does Mary Robinson Deserve a Medal of Freedom?

I have been deluged over the past ten days with e-mails, calls, etc. from "the pro-Israel community" expressing outrage over Mary Robinson being awarded the Medal of Freedom, our nations's highest civilian honor. The intensity of feeling about this issue demands a response. So here's mine: With apologies...

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Thursday, August 20 2009 1:12 AM

Ibn Ezra Agrees: An "Apikoros" (Heretic) Is One Who Rejects Intelligent Design

For those who were wondering about my immediately previous entry: When the classical Torah commentator Abraham ibn Ezra spoke of a "heretic" who challenges the simple in faith about God's existence, but who gets an adequate response only from the discerning Jew who contemplates nature's intelligent design,...