Beyond Vatican II: The Catholic Church and Judaism in the Twenty-First Century
Rabbi Dr. Mark S. Kinzer, Fr. Jean-Miquel Garrigues, O.P., and Professor Gary Anderson will be speaking at the Hillsdale College Gershom Lecture Series on the topic of Beyond Vatican II: The Catholic Church and Judaism in the Twenty-First Century. The talks will center around Rabbi Kinzer's new book, "Searching Her Own Mystery: Nostra Aetate, the Jewish People, and the Identity of the Church." The lectures are free and open to the public. More information about Rabbi Kinzer's
Environmental Responsibility: A Sermon based on Bal Tashchit from Parashat Shoftim
Our parashah today discusses many topics of justice, of jurisprudence and of social ethics. Today I would like to expand upon a topic that is only mentioned briefly but which holds considerable weight. Before I do so, I need to take you back to last week. Do you remember in my drash from last week the law about having to kill all life and completely obliterate a city that is proven to be idolatrous? What I didn’t mention then is that there are some laws we’ve derived from
