When people ask me who I am, I wonder what answer to give.There are multiple Me’s. There is the (P) in me, the doer, the achievement-oriented person. Then there is the (A) in me that wants control, order, and predictability in whatever I am involved with. Then there is the (E) in me that wants to make a better world, and the (I) that wants to belong, to love, and to feel loved.

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I have come to a simple conclusion—late in life, but with conviction: all we want is love. To love and to be loved. And love, at its core, is integration. When we feel integrated, we feel whole. And when we feel whole, we are happy.

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Can we agree that if we are sick—if we are not healthy—we will either live a shorter life, or live longer but not well?

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The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is typically interpreted as a legal safeguard of individual liberties. This paper advances a different claim: that these freedoms rest on an implicit normative foundation—Mutual Trust and Respect (MT&R).

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Assume you must drive to a destination 10 miles away. If the road is clear and you drive fast, the distance does not feel like 10 miles. It is a breeze. It feels like a short ride.Now, drive that same distance, but with heavy traffic. You must drive slowly. It takes you twice as long to cover the distance. Those same 10 miles feel like a hundred. What does this tell us?

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I am uneasy celebrating Passover this year. Passover reminds us that we, the Jewish people,were slaves in Egypt and emerged from that bondage to become a nation with acountry of our own. Yet celebrating freedom feels uncomfortable when, at the same time, we deny this freedom to others. I refer to how messianic Jews treat the Palestinians.

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