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All Play and No Work? — When Did Work Become a Four-Letter Word?

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The Choice to Listen

Yael Leibowitz

A Stain on Israel’s Soul: Remembering Hersh Goldberg-Polin and the Beautiful Six

Reuven H. Taff

Trump And Israel: Realism Meets Reality

Leon Hadar

J’accuse, Ms. Davidova

Cedric Vloemans

‘Ayeka’: The Deafening Sounds of Silence

Chaim Y. Botwinick

I Am What I Am Now

Ronnie Katz Gerber

Liberals, Identity Politics, and the Open Persecution of Jews in Canada

William Barclay

Technion Trailblazers: What does it mean to be a student at the Technion?

Michael Waxman-Lenz

Shame on Australia

Michael Boyden

Our Last Chance to Stop Netanyahu’s Government’s Madness

Shimon Sheves

Gaza: Lives Hanging by a Thread

Simone Suzanne Kussatz

The Compass of Life: Why Mission Matters More Than Success

Anchelle Perl

Unified Israelis?

Steve Kramer

Cologne, Coexistence, and the Audacity of Disrespect

Zimra Vigoda

Visa Refused: Australia Bars Israeli Lawmaker

Shane Shmuel

Fifty Years

Yaacov Lozowick

The Power of Allowed Feelings: Teaching Kids That All Feelings Have a Place

Adam Leighton

When the Flag Falls Silent

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Should we really be praying for another Temple in Jerusalem? (Parshat Re’eh)

J.j Gross

Battle on the bimah

Alan Newman

Thirteen Days Without Israel

Aaron Mcbee

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Bernard Black

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

How to change others and others’ minds permanently

Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

What Jewish Law Says About Enriching From Murder

Shamai Leibowitz

Was COVID-19 A Divine Test for US?

Allen S. Maller

Netanyahu has one more solid trump card on Trump

Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

The Downside of Jewish Success

Barbara Aiello

A Feminist Betrayal

Grant Arthur Gochin

‘An educated consumer is our best customer’

Lydia Musher

The Silence of Pro-Israel Influencers

Aaron Mcbee

The Ultra-Orthodox – An Empty Gun

Shuki Friedman

What Miracles Cost

Andrea Simantov

The Pigeon and the Raven

Ariel Galian

Searching for Valesca: Once More to Memory Lane

Van Wallach

Greater Israel: Theology as Cartography – Cartography as Catastrophe

Adil Faouzi

Lee Zeldin, administration of the EPA, a mezuza on his office doorpost — but…

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