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Netflix’s Jewish Matchmaking series highlights a topic long ignored by too many: the life of people who are not married in the general Jewish but...
We live in an age of plenty, Yeshivot, and Torah learning like the Jewish people have never seen before. And yet, while few will admit it, the...
I remember vividly walking down the streets of Jerusalem with my grandfather Rabbi Baruch Poupko and being amused at his amazement. He was born in...
Dear MP Žemaitaitis I recently met an older Jew in the synagogue who was originally from Poland. He was lovely, kind, and gracious. Despite what he...
If you have not been enjoying the public humiliation Israel and the Jewish people have been enjoying on the international stage since the various...
With the cool breeze of Jerusalem on our faces, sitting and talking with a supporter of Israel’s far-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir, we cut...
If there’s anything the events of the past few months teach us, it is that the greatest threat to Israel’s survival is not Palestinian nationalism...
Stories are the heart and soul of who were are as a people. From the stories of Creation, Noah, and the flood, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca,...
As an Orthodox American Jew, the story of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow is the most relatable of all Jewish Nobel Laureates. She, too, was an American...
When we speak of Jews who are Nobel laureates, we need to begin with talking about people like Elise Meitner – someone who did not receive a Nobel...
Bad things happen when good people remain silent. Recent judicial reforms and legislative blitzes in Israel are no longer a partisan dispute and a...
Nobel Laureate and Neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini is not only an inspiration for Jewish generations for her advances in science, politics, and...
Writing about Elie Wiesel is not only to speak about Elie, but it is also to write about the horrors of the Holocaust, how to remember, how to speak...
When Israel’s legendary Prime Minister Menachem Begin passed away in 1992, Israelis were shocked to find out Begin did not want to be buried in Mt....
“Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family....
There is a joke about a Jew in Soviet Russia who came to request a visa to move to Israel. Sitting in front of three KGB agents, he was asked: “Mr....
One Shabbat, walking outside the small town of Zlatopol, Ukraine, a town that no longer exists, Rabbi Nachman of Breslev told the person with him to...
It has been noted that about 40% of Nobel laurels in economics are Jewish. What is fascinating about the case of Professor Daniel Kahneman’s winning...
While many lives have been saved, and many deaths have been prevented by reducing the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus is still among us...
Einstein was by far the greatest scientist of the 21st century and history as a whole. Space travel, GPS, laser beams, nuclear energy, supercomputers,...
Since the Nobel prize’s inception, the presence of Jews among its leading recipients has been nothing short of an extraordinary miracle. The only...
Is what is legal always right, and is what is right always legal? When do practicality and survival override concerns of morality and justice, and...
“Jacob left Be’er Sheva, and headed to Charan.” The famous commentary of the Beit Halevi, Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik from Brisk, addressing...
While the politics of Naftali Bennett and Peter Beinart are very different, they met midway this week in the New York Times. Bennett, a...
On Thanksgiving morning, my Canadian wife and I, an Israeli, woke up and decided we would find an outdoor activity for the kids and us just to learn a...
The following stories, to me, capture the essence of Rabbi Sacks. Rabbi Sacks was asked to meet the Pope, but the only time a meeting was possible was...