Parshat Shoftim

Country or Mother – On Going to War at the Expense of Filial Responsibilities

This essay explores the “Country versus Mother” moral dilemma by contrasting Jean Paul Sartre’s atheist perspective of individual choice in a moral vacuum with the Torah’s divine moral framework, which unequivocally concludes that national defense and community welfare override personal filial responsibilities in times of commanded war.

Autonomous Weapons Systems and Human Dignity

Many believe it is a violation of human dignity to deploy AWS. I show that this is a category error and that human dignity is no more impacted in war whether fought with sticks and stones, knives and guns, tomahawk and hellfire missiles, or fully autonomous weapons systems.

Parshat Shoftim

Country or Mother – On Going to War at the Expense of Filial Responsibilities

Autonomous Weapons Systems and Human Dignity

On Buying a House and Dedicating a House in the Land of Israel

On Kings and Toys

Right and Left

On Determining the Future