Combining a traditional Jewish outlook with a critical perspective on religious and political issues. We humans have always needed cures, whether they are of the body, the mind or the soul. And in our desperation we have turned to the most unlikely of sources and placebos. Every advert for a pharmaceutical drug comes with an obligatory list of rushed-through or minutely printed side effects. They are so frightening that I really do not understand why people insist on taking them.

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Friday, October 23, 2009. Jeremy Rosen on the Torah. Why is the Creation story recounted twice in the text of Genesis? Some scholars contend that the two versions come from separate sources. But might there be other ways of understanding the existence of two accounts and the significance of the differences? In this episode, Rabbi Jeremy Rosen considers possible meanings and messages implicit in the variations.