| MercatorNet | June 2, 2017 |
‘Why I am a Jew’
A leading British rabbi explains his faith in a short animated video
"The deepest question any of us can ask is: Who am I? To answer it we have to go deeper than, Where do I live? or What do I do? The most fateful moment in my life came when I asked myself that question and knew the answer had to be: I am a Jew. This is why."
These are the opening words of a clever whiteboard animation in which Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, a former Chief Rabbi of the UK, philosopher, and winner of the Templeton Prize, attempts to explain his personal commitment to Judaism. It is also an appeal to Jews around the world to connect to their people, heritage and faith.
June 2, 2017
Leading our varied menu of articles today is an account of transgender politics in the Canadian province of Alberta as it affects schools, and how this change has been handled by one particular family.
Wayne Ottenbreit is a marriage and family therapist in Calgary as well as a guidance counsellor in one of the city’s school districts. He writes, as one would expect of such a professional, in a calm but forthright manner about the personal and professional risks of resisting an irrational but powerful movement, especially when others who can see its wrong-headedness are too afraid to say so.
But he also sets out reasons for hope and suggests a way forward:
In tending our own patches of soil the most effective tool is confident courage - exercised in relationships that educate hearts and minds. This is the antithesis of withdrawal from culture. This is to enter into the messiness of human living and encounter dissimilar others, with charity and truth harnessed together.
It’s a sturdy and wise article and I suggest you will profit far more from reading it than from any of the thousands of articles on offer right now about Donald Trump’s shock-horror repudiation of the Paris Climate Change Accord.
Carolyn Moynihan
Deputy Editor,
MERCATORNET
| How gender became political, and the political became personal
By Wayne J. Ottenbreit
One family’s engagement with the new identity culture.
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| Senator Sasse has questions and answers about freedom and virtue
By Sheila Liaugminas
Now that his provocative new book is out, more people are noticing.
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| ‘Why I am a Jew’
By Michael Cook
A leading British rabbi explains his faith in a short animated video
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| The Lego Batman Movie
By Rachele Mocchetti
Action, humour, and unrelenting self-irony.
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| Facebook enters the population mapping game
By Marcus Roberts
Does this mean census forms are a thing of the past?
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| Grandmother bridges generation gap
By Jennifer Minicus
Henry likes to take his time.
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| A Christian abortion doctor? On the ignorance, arrogance, and violence of the Pro-Choice cause
By Charles K. Bellinger
An abortion doctor's inadequate apologia.
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| The engagement ring loses its sparkle
By Helena Adeloju
Whoever said 'Diamonds are forever' hadn't reckoned with the millennials.
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| Re-opening the apology book
By Raymond J. de Souza
Canadian Premier Trudeau wants (another) papal 'sorry' to First Nations people.
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| It’s a hashtag world of sentiment
By Barbara Lilley
But does it do any good to the victims we are so publicly sorry for?
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| Exclusive: Trump to get Nobel Peace Prize
By Michael Cook
Norwegian committee has buyer regret after Obama experience
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