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The theme of Pesach is the prohibition of eating Chametz. Specifically, this refers to the dough rising and turning into leaven. Matza is referred to...
Harachaman, May the Merciful One send Elijah, the prophet, to announce good news about redemption and comfort, just as You promised. (the prayer for...
The story of the Israelites’ exodus from slavery in Egypt bequeathed to us, their descendants, a moral principle repeated dozens of times in the...
“It was wildly celebratory and the most memorable Seder of our lives.” Those were the words sent to me by a dear friend from our Hyde Park...
When the war began, Washington’s calculation was that it would last about two to four weeks to topple the regime in Iran. Now the war is entering...
The war is here. The Strait is closed. Who is paying the price—and how? Since 28 February, when the United States and Israel launched strikes...
The PM is gambling with Israeli lives in his last-ditch efforts to cling to power; Israel must reverse course, sooner rather than later. Just before...
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...
On the eve of Easter 2026, a person dressed in black placed an explosive device at the entrance of the Israel Centre in Nijkerk, Netherlands. The...
What is becoming visible across different countries today does not return in the shape of classical fascism. It does not necessarily march in...
Our lovely hosts, on the second night of Passover, were troubled at the thought of once again lamenting the historic saga of Jewish deliverance from...
As Jews are pushed, pulled, and misread across the political spectrum, the Seder restored the story that refuses to break This Passover many American...
Since Prophet Muhammad’s ancestry can be traced back to Prophet Ishmael, the son of Prophet Abraham, doesn’t that make Prophet Muhammad...
Growing up, I was told that Clark was an “Ellis Island name.” The story went like this: when my great-grandparents arrived in New York from...
In our previous blog post on Vayikra, we discussed the valuable role Aharon fills in providing the laws of the Mishkin (and the entire Torah) to the...
Lithuania does not need to prosecute everyone. It only needs to prosecute one person visibly enough that everyone else understands the price of...
There’s something deeply unsettling about a moment where bombs are falling across parts of the Muslim world—and at the same time, Donald Trump is...
Some of my earliest recollections of any topic in Jewish history come from coffee table books. You know – the large, glossy photo collections about...
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. “There will be nothing...
Nineteen states filed at the ICJ to defend self-determination. Zimbabwe is destroying it. They have nothing to say. Nineteen states filed formal...
Well intended ideals for declaring wars have a way of seducing nations into believing they will be short, decisive, and neatly concluded. History...
This is not our finest hour visually, emotionally, or otherwise. Still, within minutes of piling into a concrete room, something shifts. No one cares...
We are trained to manage risk carefully. But in moments of rapid change, the greatest risk may not be acting too quickly, it may be failing to act at...
Two days ago – that is, on 3rd April – Al Jazeera, the mouthpiece of Qatar and all Iranian proxies, carried an article about the legitimacy of...
Introduction: The Essay as Its Own Evidence This essay began as something else. An earlier draft existed. It was competent, organized, philosophically...
I unintentionally introduced a modicum of controversy into the familial Seder when discussing the true implications of freedom or lack thereof. I had...
I still remember the weight of the pen in my hand. It didn’t feel like signing a consent form. It felt like signing something far more final, far...
History does not repeat. No moment is a carbon copy of another. Yet history does recur—not in events, but in situations that test judgment in...
The war between Israel, the United States, and the Islamic Regime of Iran has triggered a new phase in Middle Eastern politics. Yet behind the...
Every year the Jewish people spend one night discussing our famous departure from Egypt. We eat the same matzah, drink the same amount of wine, and...
The death penalty law adopted last week by a bare majority of 62 Knesset members is a discriminatory abomination that would subject West Bank...
As I just landed in Israel on Thursday, March 19th on one of the very few flights arriving for the Passover Holiday, words can not describe the...
There are objects that tell the story of an entire period. Not through declarations, but through the roles they come to play. In recent years in...
One of the hypocrisies in Israeli political discourse is that many Israelis look outward and criticize other countries for allowing adversaries to sit...
When the United States and Israel jointly went to war with Iran on February 28, President Donald Trump predicted that the conflict would last from...
Nothing is the same anymore. Or is it? Over one hundred years ago, in 1923, David Lloyd George (1863-1945), Prime Minister of the UK, said: “Of all...
Early in April 2026 the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in South Africa posted on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter)...
In a world where headlines are dominated by conflict, crisis, and competition, some stories remain quietly powerful unnoticed, yet deeply significant....
The Artemis II around-the-moon shot has evoked nostalgic moments for me. In 1972, the last time anyone, man or woman, went to the moon, I was a...
In this essay, we discuss six different words that mean “wet” in Hebrew: lach, ratuv, ra’anan, rutfash, tofeach, and mefulam. While on the...
The ‘moderate’ Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas recently provided yet another reason to distrust the PA. The PA has recently...
In New York, people adjust their behavior before companies adjust their policies. After October 7, I started seeing it in the people I work with....
14 years ago today, single at age 34, with two elderly cats, I took the biggest leap of faith of my life. Unlike many other stories I had heard, I...
As my grandchildren recited the Four Questions, my thoughts drifted—unexpectedly—to Punch the Monkey. Yes, Punch-kun, the Japanese macaque. That...
I have mixed feelings about ChatGPT. We were introduced at my job, where admittedly, it took me some time to get acquainted. Although I had...
When Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke denies visas to Israelis, he likes to insist that Australia will not “import hate.” Yet how does that square...
ToI’s choice of stories to cover, its reporting angle and its editorial opinion are relentlessly progressive. Here I will try to provide an...
At the same time, a sustained air campaign has struck more than 12,000 military targets, dismantling missile production, weakening air defenses, and...
The horrific events of October 7 and the strategic consequences for Israel continued when the Netanyahu government steadfastly ignored the need to...
The philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz is renowned for downplaying the religious significance of God’s miracles. He argued that miracles, in and of...
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