We are discovering the unfortunate but not entirely unintuitive fact that concussions suffered by athletes are far worse for them than we have previously realized; in particular, they seem to cause something called “chronic traumatic encephalopathy”, which is apparently also known as dementia pugilistica or more colloquially as “boxer’s dementia” or “punch-drunk syndrome”. CNN reports: …
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Income Of Dependent Children
The Chinuch Roundtable The participants in the Chinuch Roundtable section of the issue of the Yated Ne’eman of two weeks ago discussed the following question: Question: Is it acceptable to take a loan from my teenage children of a few thousand dollars that they have accumulated from gifts and jobs? One of the opinions contained …
Zealotry Vs. Tolerance
For Wolf2191, a staunch advocate of tolerance and humaneness1 Several months ago, we discussed Rambam’s position that Ya’akov’s excessive fearfulness of the danger posed by Esav was a character flaw. This is actually but one item in a fascinating list of purported failings on the part of Biblical figures that Rambam adduces in support of …