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Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.
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When my children were growing up, we began every family meal - which included breakfast and dinner every day - with a prayer. We are Jewish and so it was the prayer over bread, when we were having bread, or the catch-all prayer for everything when we weren't.
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I guess, as an Emanuel, I have a voice that carries.
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Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
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It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.
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We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.
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The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.
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I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.
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Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.
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Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.
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Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.
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My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.