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When Service Does Not End and Listening Comes Too Late

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Stuart Katz

On Modernity and Irresponsibility

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Ofer Idels

No Communion for Candace Owens

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David Nekrutman

A Listening Heart: Guarding the Jewish Future

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Andy Blumenthal

Vayechi — The Friday Evening of History

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Mikhail Salita

The Language Classroom: Institutional Failure and Individual Courage

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Orly Lavi Travish

After Recognition, the Horn of Africa Enters a Decisive Phase

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Nolawi Engdayehu

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #204, Crystal Haggadah, 15

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Stephen Berer

There Are None So Blind as Those Who Do Not Wish to See

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Eliezer Simcha Weiss

John Marston, A Surprisingly Jewish Story

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Matthew Robin

The Media’s Blind Spot: Iran’s Killing Fields

Selective Outrage: Why Iran’s Dead Don’t Matter to the Media In the span of two weeks, an estimated 12,000 Iranian citizens were killed amid...

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Sabine Sterk

When Words Had Weight: Remembering the Age of the Typewriter

Last week, while rummaging through some old papers, I came across a document I had typed more than forty years ago. It was on onion-skin paper,...

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Michael Feldstein

From JD Vance to Rubio: ‘Trumproe’ Changed Power

From JD Vance to Rubio: ‘Trumproe’ Changed Power

JD Vance was the GOP’s signal flare — the up-from-nowhere firebrand poised to be the next president, the man who channeled MAGA’s angry base and...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Is AI Good for the Jews?

I began this blog in the weeks after October 7 to think in public about Jewish life, our safety, memory, identity, and politics. I posted unevenly,...

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Craig Frank

Coming Reckoning for Uncle Sam: Why America’s Next Debt Crisis Will Be Different

In July 2025, Congress narrowly avoided catastrophe by raising the debt ceiling to $41.1 trillion through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The...

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Vincent James Hooper

Treasure Trove: A Century of Israeli Beer – Mi’Brador l’Dor

100 years ago, the Rosenberg Brothers were brewing “Max Brau” Palestinian beer in Acre.  This advertisement appeared in a 1926 edition of...

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David Matlow

Fearing Islamism Is No Phobia

Fearing Islamism Is No Phobia

In April 1979, my professor, a bright, beautiful woman, came into the classroom with “exciting news!” It was official, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...

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Rachel Wahba

“Sorry, Mr. Chomsky, I No Longer Agree”: My Journey Out of Anti-Zionism

I was once an anti-Zionist. My political views were shaped by leftist academics during my time doing graduate work at Boston University. I had...

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Kile Jones

The Fragile Gift of Free Will by Menachem Mirski

I first met Menachem Mirski when I and my wife Judy went to Poland in the fall of 2010 to help in a Jewish revival. Mirski was not a Rabbi then. He...

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Allen S. Maller

Martin Luther King Day Is a Call, Not a Pause, for Maryland’s Youth

My dogs pulled forward toward the Howard Street Dog Park as we passed First and Franklin Presbyterian Church. Outside hung purple ribbons, each...

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Stephen Stern

Wrecking the Country from the Inside

What’s more dangerous for a country’s future: external attack or internal revolution? As a political scientist, I am not aware of any scholar who...

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Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Yajuj-Majuj vs. Hope, Prayer and Faith

Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a small fraction standing by the end of the century unless global...

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Allen S. Maller

From Mouth to God’s ‘Ears’

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Rivka Herzfeld

Purpose, Meaning, and the AI Disruption

As artificial intelligence threatens to displace vast numbers of jobs, most public discussion centers on economic remedies: retraining programs,...

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Mark Frankel

‘Hakarat Hatov’ and Entitlement

Parshat Va’era gives a description of the first seven of the Ten Plagues. There is a subtle but important message within this description. We learn...

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Kenneth Cohen

It is time to take responsibility for our image rather than blame everybody else

Last Friday, when I read Ben-Dror Yemini’s article in Yedioth Ahronoth, “The Covenant of the Bullies,” I felt a sense of déjà vu. He has been...

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Nadav Tamir

AI Is Reshaping Academia — and Forcing a Rethink of the University Mode

Image:78 years since the first transistor was developed at Bell Labs — a breakthrough that laid the foundation for modern computing and AI. Photo...

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Rafi Glick

Featured Post

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This morning, like every morning for the past two weeks, the first thing I did upon waking was search for news of Iran. Have the protests...

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Mijal Bitton

How Torah Teaches Us to Kill an Impulse

There is a moment in Red Dead Redemption 2 that is easy to miss and difficult to forget. John Marston is trying — awkwardly, imperfectly — to live...

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Matthew Robin

Is Halting Executions in Iran Good Enough?

On January 16, 1979, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was forced to flee Iran along with his family due to the US and European countries withdrawing...

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Jonathan Feldstein

I Am Who I Am and the Reflectivity of Prayer

The telos of tefillah, the Hebrew word for prayer, is not to be reflective about one’s heart’s software. It’s willingness to be subjected to...

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Gershon Hepner

The best day ever

The Best Day Ever By Eden Gabay   You know these days when nothing goes right? When waking up is already a fight? Your shower is cold, you can’t...

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Ariel Galian

‘Protective Parent as Alienator

In recent years, the concept of parental alienation (PA) has become one of the most contested issues in family law and child psychology. Few...

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Monique Dietvorst

‘Thy Neighbor’s Blood’: Alarming Assault Weapons

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined;” – First Annual Address to Congress, George Washington (January 8, 1790) Every time I...

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Why Middle Eastern States Oppose US Military Intervention in Iran

In early 2026, the strategic landscape of the Middle East is shaped by a striking convergence: while many regional governments remain deeply...

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William Keenan

‘In the Beginning’/Tzedeck

‘In the Beginning’/Tzedeck

B”H 1/15/2026 26 Tevet 5786 Reynah and the Golem Chapter One “Can I stay here forever?” She thought as she gazed into his beautiful light hazel...

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Hadassah Chavivah Zeltzer

United We Stand – Divided We Fail (Again)

The Urgent Need for Opposition Unity in Israel Israel’s opposition faces a moment of truth: unite or lose – again. As the next election approaches,...

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Alan P. Gross

From Budapest to Tehran: When the United States Encourages Revolt—and Walks Away

When Iranians flooded the streets chanting “Woman, Life, Freedom,” many believed the Islamic Republic was facing its most serious challenge since...

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Yehuda Lukacs

From Cyrus to the Future: Can Iran and Israel Rekindle an Ancient Bond?

“I think there are only two countries on this planet that can claim to have a biblical relationship: Iran and Israel. This goes back 25 centuries....

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Ralph Buntyn

Donald Trump, Terrorism and Trauma

As an American citizen I am terrified to be in the United States right now. There I said it. Everyone can read my words. I don’t have to keep it a...

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Vicki Polin

The Advantage of Torah Thinking

My article “A Torah with 70 Different Faces” has been read by more than a dozen academics including Luca Arcari Università degli Studi di Napoli “...

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Allen S. Maller

Israel’s Latest Death Penalty Bill Fails the Litmus Test for Civilized Humanity

Israel’s Latest Death Penalty Bill Fails the Litmus Test for Civilized Humanity

Any nation that engages in the blatant human rights violation that is capital punishment inherently fails the litmus test for a civilized society....

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Michael Zoosman

Facing Down Antisemitism

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded Israel to kill and kidnap as many Israelis as it could, and to destroy the country if possible. Immediately there...

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Paul Burstein

Saudi–Pakistan–Turkey–Egypt Defense Pact, crisis in West Asia

The prospect of a coordinated defense pact involving Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt would represent a profound shift in the security...

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Sergio Restelli

Not Just Missing, But Abandoned by the System

Two years ago, I arrived at the absorption center on Tzahal Street 9 in Tzfat, northern Israel. It was the holiday of Purim, at the very beginning...

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Tomer Adela

Moses, Modesty, and Moral Leadership: Parshat Vaera

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Naomi Graetz

More Jewish Children, Not Another Campus

More Jewish Children, Not Another Campus

The news that investor Alon Abadi donated a reported $100 million campus to Chabad was met with admiration and gratitude, and rightly so. Any act...

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Joe Bergovoy

President Cirro Meets with 7 Former Foreign Ministers to Leave No Stone Unturned

Somaliland’s Historic Advisory Meeting with Former Foreign Ministers Abstract On January 13, 2026, Somaliland’s President Abdirahman Mohamed...

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Mustafe Jambir

Somaliland’s Banking Act: A Nation’s Signature on the Global Stage

Somaliland’s International Banking Act: A Nation’s Signature on the Global Stage Somaliland has stood for more than three decades as a beacon of...

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Mustafe Jambir

Plagues – Why Ten? Why These?

The Ten Plagues are among the most iconic miracles in the Torah – right alongside the splitting of the Red Sea. But two questions naturally arise:...

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Ben Lazarus