Beit Gamaliel

The House of Gamaliel: The confluence of knowledge and faith.

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Mental Illness, or Dying with Dignity?

Maybe we have suicide all wrong. Maybe it is NOT a mental illness. Maybe there are some people that just “identify” as terminally ill and they deserve the same dignity of choosing death.

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The Right To Remain Silent

We Americans love our rights. And we flaunt them when we can, even using them as battering rams when needed. But the reality is that schools are intended to teach reading, writing, arithmetic, history, science, and a few other academic disciplines. It is not a place given to apologetics or diatribes on issues of religion, personal beliefs, social issues, or culture.

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The Age of (dys)Information

According to Wikipedia, the Information Age is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century. Today, one weekday edition of today’s New York Times contains more information than the average person in seventeenth-century England was likely to come across in an entire lifetime (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/shenk-data.html).

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What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander: Are Transgender Athletics Fair?

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, so the saying goes. For those unfamiliar with this axiom, a female goose is often referred to as a “goose.” However, a male goose is referred to as a “gander.” Thus, what is good for the female, is good for the male.

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