Are you an honest person? Is your opinion of yourself the absolute truth, or is it what you would like to believe? And is the world really divided into categories of good and bad people?

A 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision permitting chaplains to open legislative sessions with a prayer set the legal world on fire. Was it a victory for religious freedom or a blow to the Establishment Clause? The law aside, what ethics underlie this gripping debate? Two of America’s leading constitutional scholars make their case.

On multiple occasions in his televised addresses, the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory urgently called for a daily “Moment of Silence” in U.S. public schools, where most American children receive their education. The Rebbe articulated his position with great urgency, all but warning that if the current path of education continues without incorporating a Moment of Silence, calamity is bound to come.