The size and composition of the world’s population matter in a number of important ways. The numbers affect food, water, poverty, environmental stress, children’s education, jobs, the needs of the […]
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Humanism’s Farther Reaches
A former leader of the New York Ethical Society, Jerome Nathanson, often said that in his view Ethical Culture is the most important idea in the world. I often think […]
My path to president of our Ethical Culture Society
By Susan Lesh It started out simply. We had just moved to Teaneck—our first house! Laura and Marvin Mausner gave us a copy of the FOCUS newsletter and we were […]
Finding Solace in the Cosmos
By Dr. Joseph Chuman This has been a hard year for all of us, considering the dark political realities that loom large and invade our mental space almost ceaselessly. In […]
Trump threatens our moral standards
By Dr. Joseph Chuman There is growing consensus that the Trump presidency is a train wreck: Chaotic, unpredictable, destructive of American norms, engineered by a pathologically impulsive, grandiose and stunningly […]
Society to honor civil rights activist Theodora Lacey
Theodora Lacey of Teaneck, civil rights activist and educator, will receive the Jack Rubinstein Ethical Humanist Award at our Society’s Installation Dinner on Saturday, June 3, at 6 pm at […]