Nobody is immune from temptation, ever, and the only way to consistently live a moral, ethical life is to observe the commandments.

'A country that supposedly doesn’t have capital punishment today enacted a death penalty couched in fancy legalese,' said Brooklyn-based Rabbi David Niederman.

I fear that the Jewish people are still enslaved to the past, to a time when we were in 'galut'.

We came from the Middle East and wandered for 2000 years and returned home, but we never lost our ethic - an ethic that underpins every Western country.