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A professor at the elite Macalester College is sparking backlash after a video of her at the annual Socialism Conference, which was held July 3rd...
Just before I stepped into a guest lecture for a master’s class on innovation and entrepreneurship at the College of Management Academic Studies in...
Our First Spiritual Task Is to Attach Like a Newborn We talk a lot about doing: mitzvot, chessed, prayer, fixing the world. But Torah starts with...
There was once a professor who taught a certain theory to his students. “But Professor,” said one student, “your theory doesn’t agree with the...
While all the attention is on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s trip to Washington, three domestic stories in the Israeli media yesterday point to a...
In September 2023 I finally got my British passport renewed. The only reason was that my daughter was taking an extended trip to Bali and, as an...
The recent powerful civil court ruling awarding NIS 500,000 (approximately $139,000) in damages to a young woman who was sexually assaulted while...
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently sat down with U.S. President Donald Trump, he presented a vision for Israeli-Palestinian...
“Death to the IDF.” “From the river to the sea.” “Globalise the Intifada.” These are not political slogans. They are not cries of...
Many pro-Palestinian supporters attempt to justify the October 7 terrorist attacks by arguing that they did not occur in a vacuum-that decades of...
Why do Gentiles lack the pride, motivation, love, and care to be proactive? Trigger warning: This rant may make non-Jews (and Jews) uncomfortable....
When seven rabbis endorse a candidate who refuses to affirm Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and minimizes his own antisemitic rhetoric,...
We need to start loving to win again. We have a historic opportunity to let Israel win for us. And more: to help Israel win for us and make it...
Before 10/7, I’d been writing more softly—songs and prose. Quiet hopes. Phrases meant to express something about love, about longing, about the...
A Jew as a poisonous mushroom PRAGUE — I stood today before gravestones so old their Hebrew letters are more memory than inscription. Some lie...
Every great moment in Jewish history has emerged from the broken ribs of disaster. This is not irony. This is not misfortune. This is not cruelty....
Perhaps the quintessential weekend convergence is Shabbat Hukkat, Fourth of July weekend and a birthday. Between the fireworks (in the sky, and...
It was just yesterday. A synagogue was nearly set alight. In Melbourne, protesters marched not with messages of peace, but with chants of “Death!...
She’s 97 and still apologizing for grieving. Sometimes, the bravest thing is to simply listen. It was Erev Shabbat. My husband’s grandmother...
Tammuz begins not with fire, but with a crack. It is the sound of walls breached, of defenses shattered. On the 17th of this month in the Jewish...
I got inspired by three completely different occurrences today, and each one spoke to my soul. Are you listening when your soul, emotions and...
After significantly reducing the external existential threat facing Israel, the time has come to remove the internal existential threat. Given the...
The Cartographer Long before satellites and drones, when empires rose on will and ambition, cartographers wielded kingly power. Their maps, etched...
Later today, when President Trump meets with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Washington, he will have a rare opportunity to not just to take a “victory...
Thousands of passengers were left stranded across Russia on Sunday after a wave of Ukrainian drones triggered emergency shutdowns at major...
Israel has given President Trump his best shot at becoming a hero of American history. It is the shot he has now at completely denuclearizing Iran,...
From Washington to Tel Aviv, the front line of national security is no longer defined by borders but by code, compute, intelligence, and...
The dual nature of light—both wave and particle—serves as a powerful metaphor for the mysterious and shifting boundaries of reality itself. In...
A city that was a center of culture, finance, and political power. with a large and thriving Jewish community elected an antisemitic mayor. The...
People rarely say it outright, but it’s there: for many, the debate isn’t about a one- or two-state solution—it’s about no Jewish state at...
“HATE IN OUR STREETS” declared the bold headline today, reporting on the recent attacks on a Melbourne Synagogue and a Miznon restaurant — both on...
As a death row inmate in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, arrested and sentenced to death because of the “crime” of converting to Christianity, I...
BBC’s Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf on July 5 noted that Hamas is saying that it “delivered positive response on US Gaza ceasefire plan”. ...
Jews, of all people, should know that bureaucratic categories rarely capture the truth of identity – not the Ashkenazim when asked to conditionally...
20 “Chen and Now: Forbidden Praise and Esav’s Paradox” Our Gemara on Amud Aleph rules that it is forbidden to praise an idolatrous gentile: “You...
The Yalkut makes a comment that needs explanation related to Moshe Rabbeinu’s hitting the rock. “The Holy One Blessed Be He said to Moshe, My...
“Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will give its water…” (Numbers 20:8 ) “And Moses raised his hand and struck the rock with his...
When the Moabites led by Balak turned to their mortal enemies the Midianites to ally with them against the impending threat of the Israelites, the...
In the early hours of October 7th, my phone pulsed with messages I’ll never forget. Just days beforehand I had been sitting in New York City with...