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Meat, Wine and Divine Intentions (Emor)

yesterday 10

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Ben-Tzion Spitz

‘Death and Taxes’ Parashat Emor 5785

yesterday 10

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Ari Sacher

Interview of Ferhat Mehenni – President of Kabylie

yesterday 10

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Laurent Cudkowicz

Israel’s Broken Social Contract

yesterday 8

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Ilai Z. Saltzman

Confessions Of A Nazi Spy

yesterday 10

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Sheldon Kirshner

Raids Targeting Brit Milah in Belgium Should Prompt Reflection—Not Just Outrage

yesterday 10

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Rebecca Wald

The Narcissist and Her Forgotten Son

yesterday 10

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Steve Rodan

Who needs Ansar Allah?

yesterday 10

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Jonathan Shavit

Iran is crumbling: The Final Days Are upon Us

yesterday 10

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Daniel Rosen

The Quantum You: How Observation Shapes Your Identity

yesterday 10

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Dotan Rousso

My Memories of Yom Yerushalayim, 1967

On June 7, 1967, the Jewish people knew that they had witnessed a miracle. On that day, the ancient walled city of Jerusalem, with its holy sites,...

previous day 10

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Patricia Levinson

An unanswered question

The eighth biblical portion of Leviticus, Emor, 21:1-24:23, the thirty-first of fifty-four portions, contains some enlightening and humane rules....

previous day 10

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Israel Drazin

What We Lose When We Refuse to See

I’ve been thinking a lot about perspective lately. Not the kind you gain from stepping back, but the kind you earn — painfully, sometimes — by...

previous day 10

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Danielle Sobkin

“Cause I’m Leavin’ on a jet plane”

As he so artfully does, President Trump, nemesis of Democrats, dropped another salvo by announcing the gift of a $400 million dollar Qatar owned...

previous day 10

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Elaine Rosenberg Miller

Peace Begins Within: Healing Ourselves and Each Other

In her landmark work, The New Peoplemaking, family therapist Virginia Satir offered a timeless truth: the foundation of peace in the world is peace...

previous day 10

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Seth Eisenberg

Netanyahu on the Way to a Plea Deal

The President Launches a Public Campaign for a Deal — and Netanyahu Stays Silent My Take: Likud’s Silence Points to Coordination with Herzog —...

previous day 10

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Shimon Sheves

Trump Plane Fiasco Exposes Media Hypocrisy on Qatar

The concept of a US president being open to accepting a plane from the Qatari government should be shocking. Unfortunately, Trump’s behaviors have...

previous day 10

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Josh Levs

The Everyday, Reclaimed

At this exact moment, the notification that we have been praying and begging for the past 584 days just popped up on my phone- “Hostage Golani Lone...

previous day 10

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Ilanit Zakowski

Older Americans Month

I read, with both a bit of astonishment and more than a bit of distress, that there is now a “movement” around the language that caregivers use...

previous day 20

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Carol Silver Elliott

Waiting for Trump Won’t Bring Them Home

Yesterday was a day to celebrate. Edan Alexander – home. Alive. Freed from Hamas captivity. For a moment, there was something to exhale about,...

previous day 20

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Aron Schoenfeld

Pro Palestinians are …

The people at such “pro Palestine” protests that say they are “pro Palestine” and support Hamas, PIJ, etc., are actually anti Palestine,...

monday 10

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Yasha Harari

My friend’s learn Tanach!

My friends, learn Tanach!   Baruch Hashem, we live in a generation in which there has been a tremendous resurgence in Torah study. From young to...

monday 7

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Ariel Galian

Jews are not a race or religion, don’t run the world, and don’t commit genocide

Those assuming that Jews are evil, are they culpable for hating Jews? If Jews, Israelis, Netanyahu are evil, you should hate them. And if women are...

monday 40

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

The harm of criticism

I am convinced that judging others harms us. Judging others means criticizing them or complaining about them. It is a serious crime. It is the...

monday 40

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Israel Drazin

Israel’s Complex Relationship With Qatar

Israel’s already complex relationship with Qatar has grown more complicated. Qatar, one of three Arab states U.S. President Donald Trump is due to...

monday 30

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Sheldon Kirshner

‘May he rot in hell’

  Justice (noun) /ˈdʒʌstɪs/ They all call it justice. The grieving families of victims, their voices cracking with pain, stand before the cameras,...

monday 40

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Claudine Clark

A few Jews bring the Ivy League down to earth

Jews like Elise Stefanik, Shabbos Kestenbaum, Rabbi David Wolpe, and others judged institutions of higher learning, and found them sorely wanting....

monday 40

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Yoseph Janowski

Why Is There Antisemitism in Countries Where There Are Not Even That Many Jews?

“Israel were made by the Creator, the heart of the whole world. And so are Israel among the nations, like a heart among the organs. And as the...

monday 40

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Michael Laitman

The Mountain Within: Blooming Through Clarity

Reaching levels of greatness is a task everyone can reach. A person I ran into over the weekend asked me what I do. After giving him a short...

monday 2

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David Lemmer

Humanity Struggles to Conceive a World Without a Beginning

It is commonly asserted that an atheist is someone who has rejected belief in the existence of a divine entity. The prefix “a-” denotes negation or...

monday 40

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Yigal Bin-Nun

The power of a women’s collective, driving change

For many years, advocates for women in the Jewish community focused on securing them executive opportunities and a voice at the table, on a panel,...

monday 4

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Melanie Roth Gorelick

Trump’s Middle Eastern Opportunity

Trump’s first trip abroad during his second presidency (aside from attending the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome) is crucial for Trump and for us...

monday 10

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Nadav Tamir

Here We Go Again (HaShem Imachem)

Once again, Israel is calling up thousands of IDF reservists in preparation for “Gideon’s Chariots” –  another long and difficult anticipated grind...

monday 10

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Chaim Y. Botwinick

Reality Check on Artificial Intelligence

It’s become, for the most part, inescapable. A day hardly goes by when somewhere in either the print or digital media a newly introduced and...

monday 10

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Barry Newman

When Push comes to shove will ‘Unity Shape Love’

                 Screenshot from Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign website Political controversy is not new to the Eurovision. So far, in...

monday 2

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Louis Hemmings

American Jews Need a Wake-Up Call — Before It’s Too Late

Israel has a growing problem with America — and American Jews need to confront it honestly. The horrors of October 7th should have awakened a sense...

monday 10

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Juda Engelmayer

When non-Jews help Jews

I posted yesterday about a few Jews saving the day. I included Elise Stefanik. And then I read a comment on the post, that she’s not Jewish. A...

monday 10

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Yoseph Janowski

The PIE Paradigm

Introduction: Where Are Your Thoughts Right Now? Before we talk about the future, pause with me — just for a moment. Ask yourself: Where are your...

monday 10

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Sharon Gal Or

Open letter to MBS, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia

Jerusalem, May 12, 2025 Dear Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, I am writing this letter, through the pages of The Times of Israel, hoping that your...

monday 10

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Arie M. Kacowicz

An After #613 Enigma

Counting the Omer ( these days ) got me ‘thinking’ about numbers, specifically about Six-Hundred-Thirteen ( TaRYaG ): the number of Mitzvot in...

monday 9

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Chaim Meyer Scheff

Rudy Giuliani Has No Right to Speak for Iranians

Rudy Giuliani has once again interfered in the affairs of the Iranian people — and once again, he has done so by publicly aligning himself with one...

11.05.2025 30

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Shabnam Assadollahi

To Understand Israel, Look to Taiwan

Despite being separated by more than 8,300 kilometers, Israel and Taiwan stand as pivotal centers of global geopolitics. Each strives to safeguard...

11.05.2025 2

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Andy Blumenthal

L’dor V’dor: Honoring Life and Land on a Jewish Farm

Seven months ago, my daughter shared news that brought joy to my heart—she was expecting her first child. My baby is about to become a mother. As...

11.05.2025 1

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Orly Benaroch Light

When Human Rights Are Used to Harm Israel: Selective Outrage in The Hague

In early May, Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp — formerly ambassador to Israel — sent a letter to EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas urging...

11.05.2025 50

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Amanda Kluveld

Dry Bones

When I learned Yaacov Kirschen had passed away, I was deeply saddened. Yaacov’s Dry Bones comics were my favorites. I loved reading the strip in...

11.05.2025 40

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Mort Laitner

New Business Careers for an Age of Volatility: A MENA–India Perspective

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, together with India, is navigating one of the most transformative—and volatile—periods in recent...

11.05.2025 30

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Vincent James Hooper

School Committee Takes a Stand Against Union’s Antisemitic Materials

Never underestimate the power of the word. Since October 7, 2023, many words have been written to support, to encourage, to criticize, and to...

11.05.2025 20

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Jesse Hefter

Fourteen billion years ago there was No Universe; then YHVH-Allah…

All the energy and the matter that has ever been and that will ever be were created during the Big Bang. No new material or energy has been created...

11.05.2025 3

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Allen S. Maller

After Death-Holy

The Parshiot of Acharei Mot-Kedoshim, are usually read together. Some say that the names together reflect an attitude we have about people. Acharei...

11.05.2025 20

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Kenneth Cohen

When the Soul is Bound to G-d

On Friday, May 16, Jews around the world will celebrate Lag Ba’omer. Lag Ba’omer is a joyous day. In Israel, thousands flock to Miron, the burial...

11.05.2025 30

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Lazer Gurkow