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As an advocate for Israel, I believe I have to change how I think about Israel’s opponents. I have set this out in an infographic below. Over the...
To my surprise, and perhaps yours, the last time Pinchas appears in Tanach, he is not holding a spear. During the civil war against the tribe of...
Twenty years in, I still find myself appreciating benefits I never imagined before making Aliyah. When people discuss Aliyah, they rightly focus on...
What happens when someone is in pain but can no longer tell us? A week of nerve pain has forced me to confront that question. For most of the last six...
Of all the role models in this series, Aharon may be the one I admire most without reservation. A man of peace. A man of integrity. For forty years,...
My children completely disagree with me about the ‘Role Model’ this week, and it has sparked a great deal of discussion in the house. How could I...
I have written four books, with a fifth now underway. Yet strangely, the piece of work that has affected me most is not one of the larger projects. It...
Sometimes role models are famous saints and heroes. Sometimes they are gritty, unknown and deeply flawed. This week’s role models are exactly that:...
If repetition alone made something true, then Jews have committed blood libels, secretly ruled the world, and caused the bubonic plague. There is a...
The first in a new weekly series, Real Role Models: Wisdom from the Torah, G-d willing and health permitting, exploring the Torah’s most compelling...
At first glance, Shavuot appears to stand apart from the other pilgrimage festivals. Pesach and Sukkot are expansive, physical, and highly structured....
I almost never give universal advice. It’s not my place, and quite frankly I recoil when other people do it to me. But today I’m going to abandon...
October 7 changed everything. So why are we heading into an election as if it didn’t? I am not naïve enough to believe this will influence any...
Something is being taken from you. Maybe gradually, maybe suddenly, but if you work in law, consulting, finance, journalism, or any field where...
What does it mean to be religious when Jews are not just a community but a country – and when the word itself has become a label that divides? On...
On Mourning, Dancing, and the Jewish Refusal to Choose Between Them Many have written about us. Twain. Churchill. Lincoln. Hitler. Each found us worth...
Israel at 78 — I must start with a declaration. I make no apology for loving this country. On Shabbat, I read an interview with a widow. Her husband...
Listening and being comfortable with silence have never been my strongest skills. They may need to be. I move fast. I speak quickly. I say what I...
Until I became the patient, I never truly understood the Mitzvah of Bikkur Cholim – visiting the sick. I had always thought of it as clearly a very...
This is not a funny time. People have been injured. People have been killed. We are at war. And yet somehow there is a strange humor, a strange...
In the spirit of Pesach — a night shaped by the number four: four questions, four children, four cups — this piece offers one question and four...
I’ve just published my fourth book in four months. This one is different, because it didn’t begin as a book at all. It grew here on the Times of...
I will not equivocate: I prefer a strong Israel to a weak one. Millions of lives depend on it, and in our neighbourhood, it is a matter of life and...
Pesach is usually about what we clean, prepare, and eat. This year, for me, it begins with something simpler: gratitude to G-d, for being alive, for...
I have many friends who are Kohanim, and if you ask them, they will tell you that it is not a role that comes with many obvious benefits today, living...
There is a great deal to unpack in the book of Vayikra, with its focus on sacrifices. It is not always an easy topic to relate to, and for many of us...
Faith and integrity are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they are deeply connected. The rituals we keep and the ethics we uphold form a single fabric...
I am not ready for this in the wake of the tragedy that has befallen us the last three years and the murderous rocket attack in Bet Shemesh which...
As I write this on February 26, 2026, many of us in Israel are carrying the same unspoken weight: will a larger war engulf us in the coming days. We...
I’ve been listening to an audiobook called The Man Who Stopped the Sultan, a vivid chronicle of the 15th‑century struggles within the various...
When Hashem instructs Moshe to build the Sanctuary in which His Shekhina (Divine Presence) will dwell, the Torah describes many components that are...
Have you ever been on a Zoom call where the screen freezes. Well yesterday the person on the call with me thought the screen had frozen but in fact it...
Adar is meant to be a month of joy for the Jewish people — a time to dress up, to celebrate, and to remember how we were saved from a threat that...
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