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Claire R. BrightThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Law, judgement, and what comes after the process Shavuot has just passed. The cheesecake has been eaten, the flowers on synagogue bimahs are beginning...
Last week, I wrote my blog from Basel in Switzerland, the city where Theodor Herzl imagined a national home for the Jewish people. We were in transit,...
On Zionism, DES, and the Discipline of Staying Together Standing in Basel, it is difficult not to feel the weight of ideas. In this elegant Swiss...
There is a particular kind of inheritance that does not appear on any manifest. It is not declared at borders. It is not wrapped in cloth or tucked...
I went home last week. Or at least, I went to the place that used to be home. Newcastle in early light. Streets that remember me more clearly than I...
(London, Spring 2026) In recent months, I have seen a sentiment expressed more than once. A person writes that they are grateful their parents are no...
The Presence of Absence We live in a time of relentless information. Everything is immediate, searchable, visible. And yet, some of the most important...
After a short pause in writing —a pause that did not feel optional —I return not to theory, but to a table. Pesach this year arrived carrying more...
(Season Two continues) This week’s parsha, תְּצַוֶּה, does something unusual. Moshe’s name disappears. For the only time from his birth...
This last Shabbat we read Mishpatim. The shift is abrupt. We move from the narrative drama of Exodus — with stories that can and do fill West...