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After about seven decades at the typewriter/keyboard scribbling about politics, you think you have heard it all. As they say, nothin’ new under the...
“Do you think Hezbollah has a parents’ visiting day?” My husband’s response to the invitation was only half a joke. A month ago, we sent our...
While the world watches Hormuz and the Red Sea, West Africa’s fracturing mining sector is opening seams that Iran and Hezbollah are well placed to...
The litany of the Rosh Hashanah liturgy pivots on three scriptural pillars: Malchuyot (Kingship), Zichronot (Remembrance), and Shofrot (Revelation)....
Lithuania’s Culture Ministry Says Holocaust History Cannot Be Erased. It Erases the Killers. “We cannot erase it and have no right to keep...
1. Divine Kingship (Malchut) vs. Human Ego The Breslov Insight: Since the original sin in the Garden of Eden, humanity has struggled with...
“Not Dead Yet,” the caption above a black cat on a sticker I saw recently proclaims. Lately that has taken on greater and greater meaning. The end...
When changing patterns of Jewish participation collide with an ancient rabbinic prohibition A lively discussion recently broke out among some of my...
What Does Somalia Mean by Unity? For years, I have argued that Somaliland should make an argument that is both historical and deeply political: if...
Rosh Hashanah asks us to pause, to look back at the year that was and investigate honestly where we fell short. It is a moment of renewal and...
Last Friday night at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, 80,000 people came to see Ed Sheeran. What they encountered first was Macklemore, wearing a...
I am just days away from reciting Yizkor, the prayer of Remembrance, on Yom Kippur for the first time for both of my parents. Losing my Dad a few...
It has always struck me that the Torah and Haftarah readings for Rosh HaShannah place the heroines of our biblical story at their center. Sarah,...
Continued from Tuesday’s blog Yanky tells Rabbi HaLevy: “Even though I wasn’t really interested in speaking to the man, I could see he was so...
The Houthi advance toward Bab el-Mandeb tests the Makkah Pact, exposes Djibouti and strengthens President Irro’s case in Washington The fall of...
Although some cultures did practice human sacrifices throughout history, the lore surrounding virginal sacrifices into active volcanoes is outright...
There are dates that belong to history, and then there are dates that belong to memory. September 11 is both. Twenty-five years ago, America...
He doesn’t believe in G-d. He married a non-Jew. And he is sanctioning Jewish settlements in Israel. At the beginning of his speech, Ed Miliband...
The sound of the shofar is extraordinary. It does not speak in words, yet it communicates with a power that words often cannot match. Perhaps that is...
Before the 1979 Revolution, Iran under the Pahlavi dynasty was undergoing a rapid process of modernization. On the one hand, this process rested on...
Kosovo, South Sudan, and Somaliland reveal why legal statehood is only the first hurdle. What makes a country a country? International law points to...
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