Oct. 13, 2008 Rabbi Yonason Goldson: The Happiness Quotient Jonathan Rosenblum: Ignore the Grandchildren Oct. 10, 2008 Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: The limitations of scientific miracles Caroline B. Glick: Lebanon on the brink --- and why it matters Oct. 8, 2008 Rabbi Berel Wein: The day when the sane talk to themselves Ana Veciana-Suarez: Many nonobservant Jews are finding religion Oct. 7, 2008 Gary Rosenblatt: Of politics and prayer Caroline B. Glick: The ironies of the West's collusion with the Arabs and Iran Oct. 6, 2008 Rabbi Yitzchok R. Rubin: Mamma to the masses Jonathan Tobin: Ahmadinejad Isn't Too Impressed Oct. 3, 2008 Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz: The 'living dead' are all around us Caroline B. Glick: Olmert's parting blows Oct. 2, 2008 The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Q: Often customers looking for our competitor accidentally enter our store. Can we just serve them without comment? Jonathan Tobin: Jewish pundit quiz on next year's news Sept. 29, 2008 Rabbi Eli Gewirtz: Lehman Brothers and the Day of Judgment Rabbi Leiby Burnham: Apples, Honey and You Sept. 26, 2008 Rabbi Yonason Goldson: The shofar and the Echo of Sinai Caroline B. Glick: A road paved on reality Sept. 24, 2008 Greg Crosby: Home for the Holy Days Ethel G. Hofman: Rosh Hashanah Favorites: Old-fashioned taste, reduced calories Sept. 23, 2008 Caroline Glick: Liberalism or lives!? Michael Ledeen: Dear President Ahmadinejad Sept. 22, 2008 The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Q: I gave a check to a local merchant, but it hasn't been cashed in months. Probably they lost it. Do I have to tell them? Diana West: We are losing Europe to Islam Sept. 19, 2008 Rabbi Berel Wein: On harvesting success Caroline B. Glick: It is time to act Sept. 18, 2008 Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Is camping the panacea to save Jewry from self-destruction? Craig Gordon: Was SNL hilarity too much for Hillary? Sept. 17, 2008 Jonathan Tobin: The Whole World Is Watching The Kosher Gourmet By Linda Gassenheimer: East meets Southwest in this quick meal: MEXICAN-ASIAN TOSTADOS Sept. 16, 2008 Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. : Into the fire Everything's Relative : Your Official Jewish Guide to the 2008 USA Presidential Election Sept. 15, 2008 The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Enabling risky behavior Diana West: A day that will live in ... accommodating Islam Sept. 11, 2008 Rabbi Yonason Goldson: The skeleton in my closet Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein: Persecution and systematic destruction of Christians in the Middle East must be stopped Sept. 10, 2008 Jonathan Tobin: There's Something About Sarah The Kosher Gourmet by Kathy Manweiler: Who needs Chili's when you have these? Recipes for Mexican that taste great and are dietetic! Our commitment to freedom Sept. 9, 2008 Daniel Pipes: Must counterinsurgency wars fail? Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Sept. 8, 2008 The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: How far must one go to help somebody out of a contract? Barry Rubin: Waiting For Something Sept. 8, 2008 The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir : How far must one go to help somebody out of a contract? Barry Rubin: Waiting For Something March 22, 2007 J-Rhythms with Avraham Rosenblum: JWR's cutting-edge music program showcasing performers -- singers, song writers, musicians, and bands -- who learn and live the Torah lifestyle (OUR NEWEST IGODCAST !) Oct. 29, 2003 Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Graffiti On History's Walls (MUST-READ!)

Jewish World Review July 11, 2008 / 8 Tamuz 5768 Something else to worry about By Wesley Pruden http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Blaming George W. for everything from the dog's mange to an itch in places impolite to scratch is summer fun for a lot of people. So is listening to Barack Obama's gaffes, blunders and splutters. But repetition can make anything boring. So here's something new, scarier even than the Rev. Jesse Jackson's scheme to surgically alter Sen. Obama to make him eligible for the Ladies Auxiliary Choir. This doomsday would be the result of a misunderestimation beyond the ability of George W. Physicists will fire up something called the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland next month and if everything goes wrong we'll be reduced to atoms, quarks and strangelets floating out there among the stars. Except that there won't be any stars. They'll be reduced to the ashes of infinity, too. The odds against anything that bad actually happening are estimated by one eminent physicist as "only" 1 in 50 million. These are about the odds against buying a winning lottery ticket, which are mathematically about the same as winning the lottery without buying a lottery ticket. The Large Hadron Collider consists of a ring of supercooled magnets measuring 17 miles around, buried 350 feet below the ground on the Swiss-French border. Two beams of protons will race through tubes in the collider, speeding through a vacuum infinitely colder and more intense than anything in outer space. Magnets will guide their trajectory, and if the worst happens when they bang into each other they would produce a tiny "black hole," an infinitely smaller version of the collapsed stars in space whose gravity fields are so powerful they can suck in planets and other stars. The tiny black holes that are the work of the collider might be slower in developing into something bigger, and become entrapped inside Earth's gravity, and boom! Or worse, poof! Only mad scientists actually fully understand what the Large Hadron Collider is all about, and even they aren't quite sure what it will do. They expect to discover many things, like invisible matter, or even extra dimensions in space in addition to the three spatial senses earthly mortals experience. They scoff at the risks, if there are any. "Obviously," Lyn Evans, the project leader, told the Associated Press, "the world will not end when the [collider] switches on." One physicist at work on the project gave the Associated Press man an indulgent smile in reply to questions about whatever black holes and hypothetical killer particles the collider might produce. "If I thought that was going to happen, I would be well away from here." If it does happen, he will indeed be well, well away from what used to be here. Our European friends insist concerns are ridiculous, childish even. A team of scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which the French insist on calling CERN, say there is "no conceivable danger." The reassurances are naturally sprinkled with words like "unlikely" and "improbable" in describing the bad things that could happen. The eminent British physicist Stephen Hawking predicts that the micro black holes, even if they exist, will instantly evaporate. Probably. The CERN scientists note that cosmic rays have been bombarding Earth for billions of years, and the planet, though a little worse for wear and tear, is still here. One physicist who remains skeptical is Walter L. Wagner. He's also a lawyer, and sued to stop everything. He filed in a state court in Hawaii, where no judge, as important as he may think he is, has anything of interest to say about what anyone does in Switzerland. Mr. Wagner argues that the CERN safety report has "several major flaws," but lawyers for the Justice Department, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation filed motions asking the court to dismiss the lawsuit. Whatever else it will do, the Large Hadron Collider will generate billions of bits of data, enough in a year to fill a stack of computer disks 12 miles high. A global network of computers will analyze the data and spit out enough to keep the physicists at work until they spend the $5.8 billion contributed by several European governments. The lawsuit is likely to come to naught. So, too, the fears of cosmic cataclysm. But if Lawyer Wagner is correct there won't be anybody left to sue. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. JWR contributor Wesley Pruden is editor in chief of The Washington Times. Comment by clicking here. Wesley Pruden Archives © 2007 Wesley Pruden

Mitch Albom  Michael Barone   Dave Barry  Tony Blankley  Andy Borowitz  David Broder  Stratfor Briefing  Mona Charen  Linda Chavez  Ann Coulter  Greg Crosby  Rod Dreher  Larry Elder  Suzanne Fields  John Fund  Frank J. Gaffney  Lloyd Garver  Jonah Goldberg  Julia Gorin  Jonathan Gurwitz  Paul Greenberg  Victor Davis Hanson  Betsy Hart  Nat Hentoff  David Horowitz  Laura Ingraham  Jeff Jacoby  Paul Johnson  Jack Kelly  James Klurfeld  Ed Koch  Ch. Krauthammer  Jonathan Last  Michael Ledeen  John Leo  David Limbaugh  Kathryn Lopez  Rich Lowry  Michelle Malkin  Jackie Mason  The Medicine Men  Dick Morris  Bill O'Reilly  Clarence Page  Kathleen Parker  Dennis Prager  Wesley Pruden  Tom Purcell  Jonathan Rauch  Celia Rivenbark  Robert Robb  Cokie & Steve Roberts  Pat Sajak  Debra J. Saunders  Culture Shlock  Roger Simon  Michael Smerconish  Thomas Sowell  Mark Steyn  John Stossel  Cal Thomas  Jonathan Tobin  Bob Tyrrell  Diana West  Dave Weinbaum  George Will  Walter Williams  Mort Zuckerman  Robert Arial  Chuck Asay  Chip Bok  Dry Bones   Lisa Benson  John Branch  Gary Brookins  John Cole  J. D. Crowe  John Deering  Brian Duffy  Everything's Relative  Mallard Fillmore  Jake Fuller  Bob Gorrel  Joe Heller  David Hitch  Jerry Holber  Steve Kelley  Jeff Koterba  Dick Locher  Chan Lowe  Ranan R. Lurie  Jimmy Margulies  Rick McKee  Michael Ramirez  Jeff Stahler  Danna Summers  John Trever  Gary Varvel  Kirk Walters  How 2  Know-It-All  Lori Borgman  The Savvy Consumer  Elder matters  Fixit  Dr. Peter Gott  Marybeth Hicks  GET A JOB! by Marty Nemko  Richard Lederer  Tech Maven  Nutrition Myths  Bruce Williams  How Stuff Works