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Shabbat Is Not About Rest — It Is About Knowing When to Stop

Shabbat Is Not About Rest — It Is About Knowing When to Stop
22.01.2026 64

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Richard Diamond

From Sacrifice to Prayer: Why Judaism Must Civilize Prayer

19.01.2026 14

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Antisemitism, Demystified: It Starts with an Instinct

13.01.2026 32

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What Happened to “WE”?

20.12.2025 7

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From Program to Agent: How AI Reframes Judaism as a Governance System (Part 1)

16.12.2025 8

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The Haredi Chain Reaction — How an Agent Model Can Break Israel

15.12.2025 6

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Trump’s Ukraine ‘Peace Plan’ Shows He Has No Red Lines

11.12.2025 5

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How Inviting Outsiders Into Polarized Jewish State Led to the Diaspora 

10.12.2025 40

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Why Trump Cannot Make Peace if One Party Just Says NO!

04.12.2025 35

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Why Won’t Bibi “Man Up” Like Golda Did? And Now Wants A Pardon!!

02.12.2025 72

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‘Lousy Like Usual’ Is No Longer a Jewish Option

29.11.2025 65

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The Jewish Problem With Donald Trump

27.11.2025 18

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The Day After Ukraine: A Warning for Israel

23.11.2025 52

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Where Are Israel’s Shepherds to Save Us from the Wolves?

22.11.2025 13

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What Would Moses Say About ‘the Will of the People’?

06.11.2025 13

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The First Lesson After the Covenant – Build a Just Society

03.11.2025 16

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The One Inescapable Lesson of This War

31.10.2025 12

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The Tower of Babel and the AI Boom: A Weekly Torah Reading for Our Tech Moment

25.10.2025 49

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One Day of Truth: Yom Kippur as an Override Manual

03.10.2025 13

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Aseret Yemei Teshuvah (Ten Days of Repentance) — the Critical Turning Point

27.09.2025 56

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The Selfishness of Rosh Hashanah

25.09.2025 17

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Performative Statehood: When Recognition Becomes Costume-Play

23.09.2025 20

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When Words Become Weapons: The Magnified Responsibility of Influence

19.09.2025 18

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Israel No Longer a ‘Light Unto the Nations’

06.09.2025 20

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Returning to Covenant for Survival – Beyond Reward and Punishment:

05.09.2025 21

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Is It Time for American Jews to Plan an Exit Strategy?

03.09.2025 27

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Living as Jews in an Incurable World of Antisemitism

30.08.2025 18

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The Luxury of Distance: Observers Versus Participants in a War for Survival

23.08.2025 51

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The Haredi Path Is Unsustainable—And Netanyahu Is Making It Worse

07.08.2025 23

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Richard Diamond