Skeptical Observations

There is more to belonging than just a sense of belonging: the entity to which you feel that you belong must really exist, and you must real...

Whether a religious practice is superstitious depends on what its practitioners think that they are doing: one and the same practice may be ...

One hope that I had when I started this blog was that I would learn to write more quickly. I ought to have known better. I am the sort of wr...

Why are there so few bloggers writing about Judaism and Jewishness from a perspective comparable to mine? Is it because too few non-Orthodox...

Unquestionably, human beings have a deep and inescapable predisposition to magical thinking; but to identify all instances in which we attri...

“Skepticism” can signify a tendency to doubt, a devotion to critical inquiry, or a certain popular movement advocating scientific and critic...

My first version of the title of this post was “Three Ways of Looking at a Jew.” The parody held some charm for me (if you don't get the...