Self & Fellow

As I sit back in my chair behind my large oak desk, waiting for Windows to load, I wonder when I had become so conceited. Where had this feeling of superiority come from? What is it that makes me believe, for even a fleeting moment, that I am better than ...

Isn’t marriage between man and woman a violation of the laws of kilayim, which prohibit the intermixing of divergent species?

The part about the oxygen masks always gets to me...

If we don’t value, love or least like and respect ourselves, are we off the hook to love our fellow?

When I recently went on a road trip with my family, a friend suggested that I “buy” a portable DVD player for the kids to watch during the long trip. He suggested that I buy it from a store with a 60-day no-questions-asked return policy, and then simply r...

Our upstairs neighbor had a major leak in her bathroom and, since we live in an apartment building, as a consequence two walls in our apartment got damaged.

Were the colonists right for dumping all the tea into Boston Harbor? Am I allowed to participate in a sit-in? What does Judaism have to say?

I don't know if the unethical practices hurt anyone, but I really want to tell the management.

Sometimes at night I like to check my e‑mails and browse the Internet. Can I use an unsecured Wi-Fi network without permission?

My elderly mother is adamantly against my doing this. She argues that charity begins at home, and that a relative might need my organ in the future.