Platform address by Dr. Joseph Chuman, February 2014 Last December I had a conversation that I often—perhaps I might say, too often—engage in these days. A gentleman who was about […]
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4/6/2014: How Can People Do This to Each Other? Rwanda, Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities
The killing began 20 years ago this April. April 4th to be exact. It lasted for a hundred days, and when it was over, 800,000 Rwandans, the overwhelming majority who […]
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Author: Andrew Solomon (Scribner’s, New York, 2012) Reviewed by Doris Friedensohn Andrew Solomon is an exponent of “revolutionary love against the odds.” It is the animating subtext of Far From […]
Must Humanism Be Reasonable?
This platform address by Dr. Joseph Chuman, leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, was delivered on March 17, 2013. I want to dedicate my address […]
Mortality
Author: Christopher Hitchens (2012, Twelve, Hachette Book Group) Reviewed by Theresa Forsman Christopher Hitchens took on death much the same way he took on life—with an unsparing, combative […]
Simply Because It Is The Right Thing To Do
Platform address by Dr. Joseph Chuman, leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County Dec. 1, 2012 The horror of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, last month, has […]