Religious Responses to Call for Muslim Ban; Peter Singer

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  • Peter Singer on Effective Altruism: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Peter Singer on Effective Altruism

    S19 E15 - 7m 41s

    Princeton University ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer, author of "The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically," explains effective altruism as using means-testing and market research to measure the effectiveness of charities, and then giving money to those organizations that can do the most good.

  • Hanukkah on the River: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Hanukkah on the River

    S19 E15 - 3m 28s

    Passages in the Talmud direct Jews to “publicize the miracle” of Hanukkah. We visit San Antonio, Texas, where the Jewish community holds an annual “Hanukkah on the River” celebration.

  • Religious Responses to Call for US Muslim Ban: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Religious Responses to Call for US Muslim Ban

    S19 E15 - 8m 46s

    Many in the faith community are condemning Donald Trump's call for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" as discriminatory and a violation of religious liberty. Watch our conversation with National Catholic Reporter senior analyst Father Tom Reese and director of research for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding Dalia Mogahed.

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