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Alexander A. Winogradsky FrenkelThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
I was there not long after the explosion. Not in the first hours, when everything was still unnamed, when even those closest did not yet understood...
The day was not quiet – not outwardly, not inwardly. It is rarely on what is called Independence Day, יום־הצמאות, when the streets...
Meaningful, perhaps too meaningful: a friend of mine landed today at Ben Gurion Airport on Yom HaShoah, the day of the Hurban, and took a photograph...
We are strongly incited, in these years, to reflect on the way humankind will – or may not -survive in shaken, if not devastated ecological...
There are moments in the Jewish calendar when texts do not simply follow one another but begin to echo, overlap, and disturb each other, as if time...
This article, situated within the context of the Anglican Communion in the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, and the wider Commonwealth, continues a...
There are moments in history when geography ceases to be space and becomes experience. Not distance, but pressure. Not landscape, but passage. We...
In France, identity is contained.In the Middle East, identity is exposed. In France, between containment and exposure lies a discipline – a way of...
There are lives that do not belong to a person alone, but to a people, a language, a fragile continuity carried across centuries like a thin, unbroken...
The Third Sunday of Great Lent In the middle of Great Lent, when the body begins to feel the weight of fasting and the soul the slow descent toward...
There are places on earth where geography does not simply shape history but compresses it. The Strait of Hormuz is one of those places. Between the...
War, Self-Iconing, and the Eclipse of Discernment in the Days of Lent and Ramadan We are living through days of fasting. Christians have entered Great...
Victoria Amelina (1986–2023), Ukrainian writer who left her literary career to document war crimes and was killed in a missile strike in Kramatorsk...
There are moments when the fissure becomes visible. Not the superficial fractures that occupy headlines for a day and disappear, but the deeper...