Gossip
Ethics and Religion Talk - What If There Were No first Amendment?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 04-19-2022 under OPINION
The Reverend Colleen Squires, minister at All Souls Community Church of West Michigan, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation, responds: Unitarian Universalists are strong believers in separation of church and state. Therefore, it would be seen...
Ethics and Religion Talk: When does Journalism become 'Evil Speech?'
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 10-19-2020 under OPINION
In Judaism, lashon hara, gossip (literally, evil speech), is roughly defined as any speech, true or false, which damages somebody’s reputation. In general, such speech is prohibited, unless it serves the larger purpose of protecting or saving...