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Shemot 25:8: חוְעָ֥שׂוּ לִ֖י מִקְדָּ֑שׁ וְשָֽׁכַנְתִּ֖י בְּתוֹכָֽם “They must make Me a sanctuary...
When anti-Israel sentiment started to grow around the world at the beginning of this century, partly as a long-term impact of the UN resolution...
The Mainstream Media isn’t Mainstream: Or…Why Doesn’t the Mainstream Media Report on Jew-hatred? Eleven (and counting) Jew-hatred events...
The “sovereign red lines” of the Egyptian state are turning green—the color of the US dollar. As international consortia have officially...
Rising tensions over Iran’s uncertain future and its ongoing standoff with the West have put the media on constant alert. Analysts, much like...
Passover is one of the most significant holidays of Judaism. Many Jews consider it second to the Shabbat. It is the first command given to the...
A lecture in Netanya was announced. Protests followed. The municipality said it was canceled. Days later, it took place. What began as an educational...
Coralie Camilli, substitute philosophy professor at the University of Corsica and French boxing champion, published L’art du combat (Puf) in 2020,...
PARASHAH TERUMAH — WHEN THE INVISIBLE TAKES FORM The echo of Sinai still vibrates in the air. The words remain hot. The law burns in the blood. The...
The Torah describes two acts of creation: God’s creation of the universe, and the Israelites’ creation of the Mikdash, or Mishkan, the Sanctuary...
There is a Hebrew phrase that captures this moment: gam ve gam — both this and this. It is both the best time and the worst time to be a Jewish...
The claim that Africa was “behind” Europe is not a historical observation. It is a civilizational judgment. For centuries, Africa has been...
Scientific discoveries come in numerous forms. Some are achieved through careful observation and disciplined experimentation. Others, far more rare,...
The inaugural summit of the Board of Peace at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington marked an ambitious moment in contemporary...
Holocaust distortion rarely announces itself with the bluntness of denial; more often it appears in the form of casual statements, recycled clichés,...
God created the world, a home for us. This is how the Torah begins. In this week’s parashah, the inverse begins to happen. The Jewish People are...
Open the newspapers in Israel, the United States, or almost any major outlet covering global affairs, and the pattern is the same: reports about...
We don’t do much “God talk” in my house. I grew up in a yekke household — we spoke about kashrut, Shabbat, all the practicalities — but not...
The Torah has a tradition of inner spiritual life which is a devotional path — a derech avodah. While the past decade has seen an uptick of interest...
The 10 kinds of people you’ll meet in the market on the first Friday of Ramadan — Right before Shabbat — in the Old City of Jerusalem — During...
Bret Stephens’ recent State of World Jewry address generated a great deal of discussion. His core provocation: the fight against antisemitism,...
It is no secret that the Iranian regime is an authoritarian state that enforces religious conformity through violence and fear. The ordinary Iranian...
In September 1983, a Soviet satellite system detected what appeared to be five American intercontinental ballistic missiles streaking toward Russia....
Israel’s Quiet Green Light: How Gaza’s New Technocrats Could Become Jerusalem’s Best Bet The next phase in Gaza may be shaped less by...
We are living through an age in which disagreement is constant and highly visible. A few minutes online is enough to reveal the scale of it: strong...
A few weeks ago, I joined a solidarity meeting at a nearby Israeli Palestinian middle school, whose eighth graders, on a school hike in a national...
It is with tremendous excitement that לנבוכי הדור, a long lost and even unknown treasure of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, has been...
Here’s a question that you’ve probably never asked. In the modern age, which of these two phenomena have caused more Jews to cease having any real...
There is a genre of writing that pretends to describe “what is happening.” In fact it performs prior work: it sets the conditions under which...
Men are starving for sanctuary—and many of us don’t know it until we try to rest and can’t. We live as if “safe” is a luxury item: a week...
Throughout history, the Jewish people have often stood alone. Civilizations rose and fell, alliances shifted, empires conquered and collapsed, yet...
Greta Thunberg has often described her autism/Asperger’s as a “superpower,” suggesting that it gives her clarity and moral focus. As someone who...
It is clear from the Book of Psalms that King David was very passionate in his love for Hashem. He always spoke of his desire to dwell in the House of...
Stoicism has undeniable appeal. It teaches discipline of the mind, acceptance of what cannot be controlled, and emotional restraint in the face of...
Each year, like in many synagogues around the country, our congregants perform a Purim Shpiel, a humorous play that reenacts the Purim story from the...
On Thursday, February 12, I had the great honor of being part of Woodfield Steps Up, a gala event hosted by the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach...
Driving south on Route 232, known as ‘The Bloody Road’ since the attacks on October 7, 2023, we passed signs pointing in the direction of...
I have been thinking a lot about the people who quietly showed up for me over the years. A conversation at the right time. Someone who believed in me...
Israel’s claim to sovereignty is often debated through the language of twentieth-century diplomacy, mandates, and international law, yet its deeper...
Alon Lee-Green, co-director and one of the founders of Standing Together, spoke in London last night. Last night in London, a unique meeting occurred....
This article is about AI’s struggle with self-reference. How does AI interrogate the paradox of critiquing the author of an article and then...
Two more striking recent developments have highlighted the burgeoning groundswell of support against Israel’s death penalty bill currently before...
On February 13-14, walking through long corridors overflowing with thousands of Jewish teens singing, dancing, and generally enjoying being among...
Hatred survives by adapting. It learns the language of each generation. It finds new justifications. It makes itself sound moral, even righteous....
Moral Courage in the Senate: A Perspective from Jewish Tradition and Behavioral Science When Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified before Congress in...
I saw the headline of an article in The Forward this week that made me stop scrolling. It detailed a gathering of Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) rabbis...
For this column, we’ll put aside all of President Trump’s character issues, which we have discussed endlessly and focus on two of his policies...
The weeks are passing quickly in Merhavim, and soon I will begin my third month. While it is true that time flies here, sometimes at school it seems...
Today Trump said that there are good talks with Iran. So on the one hand it sounds like he wants to make a deal. On the other hand, he is moving a lot...
The current compulsion to re-imagine Israel education is exhausting and exhilarating – yes, both. The concern of the growing number of non or...
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