“Family Values” in the Gospel Tradition

The Family in Israel: Between Tradition and Modernity

This article provides a review of family patterns and lifestyles within Israeli society consisting of trends in marriage, divorce and fertility, dating, mate selection, marital relationships, and marital dissolution. Additional topics consist of parenting and the place and role of children in families, elderly and their families, gender issues, division of labor, power in families, and the impa...

When Science Is a Family Tradition

Family efforts are commonplace in many professions. Dedication to suits united the Brooks Brothers, and enthusiasm for books brought Wiley & Sons together. In our family, it’s a passion for understanding the brain. Our parents were drawn to the subject when they realized that their own field, philosophy of mind, was uninformed by developments in neuroscience. To discover what philosophy might g...

Speaking with the Gospel

Phenylketonuria: questioning the gospel

Science and values. Patterns of tradition and change

interest, based as it is on the writings of Quintus Serenus, Pseudo-Apuleius and Sextus Placitus. But there are several unusual items rarely encountered elsewhere, such as the fascinating ceremonies for the cure of falling-sickness, for counteracting spells cast on people by means of wax images, and for preventing mice from destroying the grain harvest. On the whole the editor has treated the t...