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Is the Tower of Babel a Literal or Symbolic Story?

Michael Laitman

Pass the Gravy, Not the Grudges: Finding Unity in Disagreement on Thanksgiving

Pam Alcala

What Is It That Yaakov Did Not Know?

Mordechai Silverstein

The Oldest Person at My Family’s Thanksgiving Table? Me? How Did This Happen?

Lonye Debra Rasch

Is success our ruin?

Manny Behar

Hybrid Thinking: The Convergence of Human and AI Cognition

William Keenan

What Trump Gets Right That Even Liberals Can Agree

Rafael Zhansultanov

The West Bank is Burning, Where is the Outrage?

Joseph Hillyard

John Cleese, That’s No Excuse

Hayim Leiter

Erdogan’s Turkey poses an immediate strategic threat to Israel

Ely Karmon

So 51% of non-Orthodox rabbinical students identified as LGBTQ

Allen S. Maller

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Harry Katcher

Are We Against Something… or For Something?

David Sable

The Marked Collar

Monique Dietvorst

Triggering & Brilliant: Slam Frank

Hallel Silverman

Lebanon Has Been Too Slow To Disarm Hezbollah

Sheldon Kirshner

Israeli Democracy Under Strain

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Getting up to speed: The Abraham Accords – More relevant than ever

Ruth Lieberman

UNforgivable

Sarah Kendis

Let’s not slip from surge to slumber

Jay Tcath

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Ariana Mizrahi

It Ain’t Over

Carol Silver Elliott

Brown University – The Jewish Ivy?

Ellen Ginsberg Simon

If We Won the War, Why Don’t We Feel the Sweet Taste of Victory?

Joanna Landau

Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel – Part XIII

Ed Gaskin

The Hollywood History of Art by Christopher Frayling

Hannah Gal

Overcoming terrifying obstacles: A parable from the Baal Shem Tov

Ariel Galian

When the Ladder Meets the Tunnels: Parashat Vayetzei

Jay M. Stein

Toldot, a Tale as Old as Time (thanks to @Disney)

Karen Reiss Medwed

Ending an Unfinished Task in Middle East Security

Fred Saberi

Kais Saïed’s Mask: Tunisia’s Shift from Democratic Hope to Judicial Farce

Amine Ayoub

American History Through Yetzirah: Part 1

Matthew Robin

U.S. Conservatives Struggle With Antisemitism

Sheldon Kirshner

We Are Never Alone

Lazer Gurkow

Why Israel Stands Alone Again

Sabine Sterk

Four Entered Pardes: The Three Lights Of Tohu . . . And Rabbi Akiva: A Chiddush

Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Reform/Liberal /Progressive Judaism is alive and well in the USA and the UK

Ron Kronish

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #196, Crystal Haggadah, 7

Stephen Berer

Between Silence and Witness: A Gentile in a Jewish Room