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I wonder whether the angels in heaven above recited Hallel (the collection of joyous Psalms 113–118, generally said on holidays) this morning in...
The battlefield has changed. Tanks, fighter jets, intelligence operations, and missile defense systems remain essential, but they are no longer...
When I first watched Rahm Emanuel’s speech in Israel, I was struck by the boldness of his proposal. My immediate reaction was that I liked the...
In the late 1960s or early 1970s, when Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof – the most prolific author of responsa in the American Reform movement – was asked...
There is a sound every Jewish parent knows. It is not the shofar. It is not the clink of kiddush cups. It is not the sound of a child asking why this...
The opening verses of Sefer Devarim contain a detail that seems almost incidental: אחד עשר יום מחורב דרך הר שעיר עד קדש...
Last week, the Israeli government crossed another dangerous rubicon by announcing that it does not intend to comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling....
Recent developments point to a renewed and calculated effort by the Islamic Republic—the occupying regime in Iran—to restore diplomatic and...
The State That Consumes Its Society “If one question must be asked without end, not because we do not know the answer, but because the answer has...
Europe is banning cloth again, and this season it is a continental fashion. France went first in 2010 and remains the champion: no niqab on the...
It is no mere liturgical coincidence that Parshat Devarim always falls on the Shabbat preceding Tisha b’Av, the day that marks the destruction of...
It is now 11:15 p.m. here in Israel. Five minutes ago, I was getting ready to go to sleep, trying to wind down from the day. And then I saw the latest...
We’ve become great at categorizing people. We’ve become horrific at just seeing people. We see a political position, a religious label, a social...
I invited journalist Celia Bensadon to share with us a remarkable chapter of Jewish culture in Northern Brazil. Through her words, we are guided into...
The dictatorship that ran East Germany, with its notorious Stasi secret police — rumoured to have a spy in every apartment building — was a...
When I heard that Senator Lindsey Graham had passed away, I felt a sorrow unlike the grief of losing a martyr, yet it was sorrow all the same. Graham...
The danger is not in the vote in Brussels. It is in how compliance departments will implement it. As the European Commission prepares to lay out trade...
Rabbi Allen Maller, who served as a Rabbi at Temple Akiba in Culver City, CA for 39 years, has always encouraged non-Jews who are interested in...
Located in Aurora, approximately 37 miles west of Chicago, Temple B’nai Israel serves Illinois’s second-largest city. The congregation was...
If I ever thought I knew everything there was to know about my spouse, Torah and Talmud study forced me to toss that assumption out the window. The...
There was a time when the list of the world’s largest companies read like an inventory of things, oil, steel, automobiles, commodities that weighed,...
For many Jews living outside Israel, the Law of Return represents something deeply personal. It is a legal right, certainly, but it is also a bridge...
A viral claim says consciousness flows from the quantum vacuum. Here is what the physics actually permits, and what it forbids. A post circulated on...
The Death of Lindsey Graham Leaves Israel and Ukraine Without One of Their Most Powerful Voices in Washington The sudden death of Senator Lindsey...
In January 2023, I wrote about “The Undeniable Link Between Antisemitism and America’s Decline”. I described a convergence between the radical...
Last week marked the one thousandth day since the massacre of 10/7, the greatest single tragedy in Israel’s history. What is so striking about...
Being inside a field and sitting at the table where that field’s rules get written are not the same thing. Bourdieu’s distinction is simple but...
The Meme That Started My Thinking A few years ago, I came across one of those ubiquitous internet memes: Hard times create strong men. Strong men...
From college campuses across North America, Let’s Do Something has built its reputation by defending free speech, confronting antisemitism, and...
In recent days, articles in the Washington Post and in The Guardian make claims about rampant anti-Catholic actions in the West Bank and Old City led...
Antisemitism has never been static. Throughout history, it has adapted to different societies, political movements, and historical periods,...
A hidden child’s First Communion card revealed a private message between two Jewish sisters hiding as Catholic girls. The card is small enough to...
Yesterday, Science Daily reported on a breakthrough in research to create an mRNA cancer vaccine: “Researchers found that mRNA cancer vaccines can...
There was a time when Hollywood understood that great storytelling wasn’t about checking ideological boxes. It was about creating characters...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was recently in Jeddah to drum up business with Saudi Arabia, a wealthy and influential Arab state. He was the...
“How am I feeling?” I asked my watch. This morning I was in the middle of a CrossFit class, sweating, heart pounding, and I glanced at my...
Those who want to annex Judea and Samaria and those who want to conjure a Palestinian state there agree on nothing except the premise that decides...
A colleague recently told me about a conversation she had with her daughter at the beginning of the summer vacation. Her daughter came into the...
Not long ago, Tucker Carlson’s political identity seemed easy to define: Republican, MAGA, America First, pro-capitalism, pro-life, pro-Israel, and...
Shabbat Hazon, named for the opening word of this week’s haftarah – hazon, meaning “vision” – is read on the final Shabbat before Tisha...
I write in the shadow, pain and continuing trauma of the unspeakable mass atrocities of October 7 – on the 1,000th day following the worst day in...
For more than six decades, my Jewish home has been within Reform Judaism. I grew up in its youth movement and summer camps. I received my rabbinical...
Parashat Devarim and why the most powerful battles are fought over the stories we choose to tell. Every family tells stories. Some are hilarious....
The renewed confrontation between the United States and Iran has demonstrated that the Strait of Hormuz remains one of the world’s most...
The Abraham Accords promised normalisation. My lungs have lodged a formal objection. Tomorrow, I am flying to Australia through Dubai. It will be my...
Kant went out for his walk at half past three in the afternoon with such exactness that the neighbors of Königsberg set their clocks by his passing....
A History of Christian Social Action, Social Justice, and Political Power The Great Commission Was Never Only About Evangelism The command to make...
In his essay “Who Needs American Jewry? We All Do,” Rabbi Dov Linzer attempts to construct a justification for the permanence of the Diaspora....
China and I are not friends. I first realized that long ago when, passing through one of its many airports, an unsmiling immigration officer...
There is no question that organized crime in Israel’s Arab society has become one of the gravest domestic crises the country has ever faced....
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