Monthly Archives: February 2002

Fence Sitting: Religious or Spiritual Education?

By shelley | Published: 26 Feb 02
For every debate, it seems there’s always someone stuck in the middle, someone who just can’t separate the issues into one black and one white side. When it comes to taking sides between Svi Shapiro and James Moffett, that person is yours truly – to a certain degree, anyway. Shapiro, in his essay A Parent’s […]
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A Parent’s Dilemma: Public vs. Jewish Education

By shelley | Published: 12 Feb 02
The time had come far too soon for the author to decide between public education and Jewish education for his daughter. There is always the danger of one person’s individuality being lost in the grand scale of “moral, ideological, and political considerations,” but a parent cannot ignore the needs of the child just for the […]
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Censorship and a Spiritual Education

By shelley | Published: 8 Feb 02
Morality and religion, which “function through human institutions,” are inherently culturally biased and focus largely on a particular group of people. Spirituality is a connection to the whole, rather than just to one group, and an education in such can achieve generally the same goals as religious teachings, although with more emphasis on plurality than […]
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