NATURE VS. NURTURE (PODCAST)
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What happens to identical twins separated at birth and given up for adoption? Rabbi Dunner explores the extraordinary case of the “Jim Twins”, and finds a remarkable connection between the nature vs. nurture debate and the Talmud’s interpretation of Ben Sorer Umoreh – the “wayward and defiant son” – in Parshat Ki Teitzei.
Mark Twain once said, “All generalizations are false, including this one.” Well, I wonder what Twain would have made of Raphael Patai’s 1973 book, The Arab Mind—an audacious attempt to... Read More