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Noam RaucherThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
There is a reason a group like a new Jewish Defense League (JDL) can sound compelling right now. It has emerged in a moment when Jewish fear is not...
There is a certain kind of man our culture still knows how to applaud. He is bold. Unfiltered. A little dangerous. He says what others will not say,...
Passover is often framed as a story about freedom from oppression, and it is. But it is also a story about what happens after freedom is handed to...
If you saw someone moving through a dark house with a candle, searching for crumbs, it might look strange. On the night before Passover, though, that...
One of my favorite songs is Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You.” What makes it so good is that the song refuses to wait for a...
Two words name this double portion: Vayakhel–Pekudei. They don’t sound dramatic. They are. Vayakhel means and he gathered—not that Moses...
In Ki Tisa, the Torah interrupts big leadership with small, stubborn truths: you have worth before you produce, limits before you collapse, and...
Men are often met as uniforms before they are met as human beings. We read the “outside” first: the job title, the competence, the calm voice, the...
Men are starving for sanctuary—and many of us don’t know it until we try to rest and can’t. We live as if “safe” is a luxury item: a week...