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A Theology of Social Action and Justice – Part IV A congregation may teach its members to pray, read Scripture, avoid personal immorality, share...
As I wait for my son to return home from Camp Hatikvah in the Okanagan, I find myself thinking about the families living beneath the smoke. Here in...
NEW HAVEN, CT, UNITED STATES – As I return to Yale University for another year of summer teaching, I have continued to explore the intersection of...
From Port Sanitation to Public Health: Medicine and Disease Control in British Somaliland, 1884–1960 The development of public health in the British...
In this world, filled with science and intuition, sometimes the counterintuitive idea is the most important, and frequently the most logical. In...
Note: The blogs build on one another, like a story. Therefore, if you are new to these blogs please consider starting with the first blog. We all like...
On August 16, 1943, the Jews of the Bialystok Ghetto rose up against the Nazis. Eighty-three years later, we remember not only the extraordinary...
A new US State Department report has raised an uncomfortable question about Pakistan. If the country is a parliamentary democracy, why are its elected...
JTA — About a month before the October 7, 2023, massacres, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, or IMEC, was unveiled at the G20 summit...
Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy and son-in-law, is making his first trip to Israel since January, where he is expected...
Artur Fridman did not enter an empty courtroom. Lithuania spent 15 years building the criminal-law boundary now applied to his Facebook post. Artur...
In the summer of 2012, Shane Meadows pointed his camera at seventy five thousand people in Manchester’s Heaton Park and let William Burroughs...
As an American Muslim, I am sounding the alarm over S.2134. Massachusetts is considering a permanent government commission specifically for Muslims....
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu operate from the same political playbook: charismatic, far right populist leadership that personalizes power,...
Becoming an American citizen ten years ago was one of the most exciting and proud days in my life. It was not simply because I had fled Iran – the...
I have loved Pink Floyd since I was ten years old. At 56, I remain a devotee, especially of the frisson-and-trance-inducing body of work they produced...
A century-old organization, present on five continents, expands its presence in Brazil and connects Brazilian philanthropy to one of the world’s...
The Jewish Museum in New York City is a renowned art and cultural institution located on the Upper East Side’s Museum Mile. It houses one of the...
Trump’s threats against Iran already run near the ceiling of what a president can say out loud. In April, hours before a deadline he had set for...
Who Gets to Be a Political Subject? Netanyahu reportedly called violent settler extremism a “metastasizing cancer.” It is an unusually brutal...
A political moment in Michigan exposes the myth that Jews care about only one issue — and why that myth threatens our community more than any...
“The dead ask very little. Only that the ground be permitted to receive them.” The Zentralfriedhof is enormous, and the Jewish sections are at the...
Every election season, I find myself facing the same question: How much politics belongs on the pulpit? My instinct has always been clear: very...
It is a cliché that prediction is dangerous, especially about the future, but here goes: Israel has probably entered an extended period of stagnation...
For years, much of the Western left spoke about Israel and the Palestinians through the language of peace. Its members called for negotiations,...
In 1973, Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan wrote a line for Stealers Wheel that seems strangely appropriate for American politics today. For Jewish...
Prophecy as the Living Connection to HaShem After Moshe Rabbeinu The moment of Revelation at Har Sinai stands as the singular climax of human history....
My memories of being sick as a child go way back to our first apartment, where the telephone was a wall unit in the entry hall. “Dr. Weizer, the...
In the final section of Parshat Shoftim, the Torah describes a strange ceremony called the Eglah Arufah, which was a procedure done if a dead body was...
Chulin 108 — “What Milk in Meat Teaches About Peer Influence” Our Gemara on this daf discusses the halachic dynamics of a drop of milk that...
When the Shofar Is Silent, Shabbos Speaks There is something striking about entering shul on the first day of Rosh Hashanah and not hearing the...
I am late to this – partly because I was away on summer vacation, but also deliberately so, because the sheer density of bad analysis,...
Two ways of seeing Israel—and one unfinished conversation. A few weeks ago, a friend told me about a conversation he had with his twenty-something...
The Justice That Sustains the Path Shoftim opens with three words that have echoed through history like few others: Tzedek, tzedek tirdof — Justice,...
It is a tradition to take a shabbas schluff – a small nap in the early afternoon on Saturday. I used to try to avoid falling asleep, tried to stay...
On August 8, a day after Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan announced the formation of a joint defence pact, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif...
Over the past weekend, a dramatic diplomatic ceremony unfolded at Al-Safa Palace in Mecca. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President...
Israel was the first UN member state to recognize Somaliland since 1991. The next test is whether recognition can become an equal, practical...
To call Israel an apartheid state is absurd as saying that there are equal rights to all peoples in any of the countries surrounding Israel. To call...
A Pew Poll released on June 22, 2021 found that the proportion of respondents identifying as Jewish today, and say that they did not have a Jewish...
Judge Stearns found no plausibly alleged continuing Title VI violation. He did not absolve Harvard of its conduct after October 7. A federal judge...
JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL Kefar Yasif: A New Agricultural Settlement Around 1740, a group of families renewed a Jewish presence in Kefar...
Tomorrow in synagogues worldwide the Torah potion of Shoftim (Judges) will be read. The portion opens with the following words from Deuteronomy,...
The Secret of the Small Details What Do War, Tefillin, and Vacation Have in Common? There are times when a person needs words of great encouragement....
A little more than a year ago luxury residential towers, one of them 43 stories high, in north Tel-Aviv were hit directly by Iranian ballistic...
THE TORAH OF EDEN: IN HONOR OF RAV KOOK ZT’L’s 91ST YAHRZEIT “The news reaches me from a distant world full of illuminations, The suns there...
What President Trump appears to underestimate is that Iran and its terrorist proxies—Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis—are not negotiating in good...
The Jewish Council and other tokenistic Jews vs the real Jewish Left: It’s a re-run of the famous clash between Trotsky and the Jewish Labour Bund...
When the Community of Nations Makes a Bad Decision All of the British efforts to establish a single state in which the rights of the two major...
“It’s like talking to Americans about personal freedom,” Haviv Rettig Gur says when he’s describing Israel’s spirit of solidarity. More...
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