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I described the longing I feel walking through Jerusalem in my last piece, being among the stones without ever quite arriving at the city itself. Six...
In the tight-knit Jewish neighborhoods of New York, humor has always been our primary armor against hardship. Growing up, I remember neighbors joking...
Chulin 93 — “The Torah of Your Mother: Discipline, Guidance, and Self-Care” In our Gemara on Amud Beis Rabbi Yochanan instructs Rav Shaman Bar...
In my previous article, The Nuclear Option for Pickaxe Mountain, I concluded that a nuclear strike cannot solve the facility. The limitation extends...
There is no evidence that Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the visionary of the State of Israel and the founder of the Zionist movement, knew anything about...
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. Before the...
We all take for granted that food nourishes the body and keeps us alive. But let me ask a simpleton’s question: why does physical food keeps the...
Thursday afternoon, a Jew walking home from Tisha B’Av services was stabbed a few blocks from here. By itself, an act like that is so disturbing and...
Every time I come home from another round of reserve duty, I hear the same question: “When are they finally going to draft the Haredim?” The...
My doctor made a house call! Don’t get excited. He did not arrive carrying a black leather bag. There was no knock at the door, no stethoscope...
On the dry hillsides of northern Israel grows a flower that, like me, has almost nothing to offer the world. They call it the black iris. It is dark...
Presented by TUCCA – Association for Children and Adolescents with Cancer, the concert series that has raised funds for medical care since 2000...
My soldier son was home for this past Shabbat. It was really nice to have him home and I was looking forward to lively Shabbat meals and shmoozing. ...
For more than a century, Congregation Degel Israel has been a cornerstone of Orthodox Jewish life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As the city’s Orthodox...
On October 20, 1991 – the 12th day in the Hebrew month of MarCheshvan – during the Rebbe’s weekly distribution of dollars for charity at 770...
British Jews are increasingly asked to prove their loyalty to Israel by suspending judgment of the Israeli state. This demand is presented as...
On the occasion of Marc Bloch’s induction into the Panthéon, a remark by historian Patrick Boucheron on France Culture reignited a debate that...
Thomas Friedman’s New York Times column comparing Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin is forcefully written, but it is built around...
The labels change. The verdict doesn’t. A week ago, I published an essay called Bad Jew. The title was deliberate. The image was deliberate. It...
Buried, Filmed, Denied: Jedwabne of 10 July 1941, October 7, and the Assault on Historical Truth The Jedwabne massacre, of 10 July 1941, of its...
A recurring theme of my conversations here over the past three years has been the options for living somewhere more normal. When I met my girls’...
This morning, I found myself crying while staring at my son. So unaware of the weight of the world he was born into. You will grow up in a country...
Since October 7, 2023, the Middle East’s underlying fault lines have sharpened into two broad camps. On one side are the Islamist fundamentalist...
Dear reader, if you are interested in the development of artificial intelligence, particularly in its potential to improve people’s quality of life,...
The rise and fall of Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is a story for the ages. Not just because the most powerful...
Photo caption: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (right) and Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin...
Words matter. They can cut like a knife. And they can rally gullible, foolish, addle-brained, TikTok minions to join the already vile radical Islamic...
Like many Jews, I have used the words “synagogue” and “temple” interchangeably. That all changed a number of years ago when a close friend of...
The conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia is often described as a dispute over a dam, but it is really a struggle over water security, historical power,...
Every time a bullet is fired, it does not only take a life; it also destroys a part of humanity’s belief that people can live together. Every time a...
National security is the first responsibility of government. The Kamleh case asks whether Australia is living up to that principle. A government’s...
As US-Israeli tensions deepen, the hastily announced meeting planned for Tuesday at the White House between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime...
In June 2025, while the Pentagon debated whether GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators could crack Fordow, two defense officials admitted a deep...
On July 23, 2026, the United States announced a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. The Department of Energy’s own release did...
How One Forbidden Animal Became the Symbol of Kashrut This article continues the series: Fins and Scales, Hooves and Cud Kashrut Through the Lens of...
The Innocence Was Manufactured – The evidence produced culpability. The courts produced exemption. Part I set out the documentary record: the...
Can Chabad Become the New Leader of American Jewry? Rabbi Anchelle Perl of Chabad Mineola Responds to the Jerusalem Post Opinion Article by Lev Stesin...
I have spent more hours than I care to admit watching travel vlogs from Israel and Palestine – those breezy, handheld, parasocially intimate videos...
“You shall love Hashem your G‑D with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might.” Not the agreeable portion of the heart...
I am writing this from Thailand. It is summer vacation, and I am here with my family, thousands of kilometers away from Israel and the Netherlands....
Chulin 91 — “Friend or Foe: The Angel Who Could Have Been a Sage” Our Gemara on Amud Aleph discusses the circumstances under which Yaakov first...
In this article, we are joined by Daniela Levy, one of the most respected voices in Brazil when it comes to the history of the Inquisition. Daniela...
The headlines of today often echo the conflicts and questions of the past. War, terrorism, antisemitism, and political division continue to shape...
Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on promises that anyone familiar with government recognized as crude populism in attractive...
H.R. 9328 has coasted through Congress so far as one of the easiest votes placed before it during one of the most tumultuous periods in modern US...
Each morning starts the same. I head down to the kitchen at 6:30 am, put a corn muffin in the toaster and make a cup of coffee. Drinking my coffee, I...
Long before Daesh (Islamic State) began murdering thousands of woman and children in order to establish God’s right order in the world, Pope Gregory...
More than a month has passed since the signing of the newest ceasefire agreement between the United States, its mediators, and Islamic Republic regime...
Bircat Hamazon, or Grace After Meals, is so familiar to some people that it is easy to overlook how extraordinary it is. We finish eating, reach for a...
Robert Brym and Rhonda Lenton open their new study with a sentence that should stop every Canadian Jew cold: the golden age of Canadian Jewry ran from...
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