Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network of parents, grandparents, and community members during a long period of childhood.
This extended period of growth has long been considered…
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The Blogs: A Whole Land Holding Its Breath | David Ross
United by Our Experience of Anxiety
There are few moments when we all come together — friends and foes, allies and enemies — not united by shared values or a vision for the future, but by a shared anxiety.Tonight feels like one of those…
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The Blogs: What’s in a Name? | Michael Feldstein
The yellow hostage pins that many of us have been wearing on our lapels for two years can be taken off. The silver hostage necklaces that many of us wore around our necks can be removed. The misheberach prayer for the hostages can be…
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The Blogs: Justice Deferred Or Double Standards – Choose Society’s Poison Carefully | Branko Miletic
In the long and grim annals of Australia’s legal history, few cases are as emblematic of miscarriage, prejudice, and institutional failure as that of the Croatian Six.
In 1981, six Croatian-Australians—recent migrants, many with little or…
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empathetic to hostages, seeks renewed ties with
Their relationship goes back many years, when Erdoğan sought “serious-minded” figures from academia to join his inner circle. He received glowing recommendations for “Dr. Kalin, the quiet scholar,” and soon brought him into the…
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The Blogs: Allah’s 6,000+ Planets Plus A Kabbalah Sufi Poem Grows Life | Allen S. Maller
The first planets beyond our solar system were discovered over three decades ago. Since then, 6,000 exoplanets have been confirmed in our galaxy; and astronomers have detected another 5,000 planetary candidates that need a second sighting to…
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The Blogs: Leading Change: How Persian and Jewish Diasporas Can Unite against Antisemitism | Alan Bostakian
Antisemitism in many democratic societies has entered a new and deeply concerning phase. It no longer hides behind coded language or quiet bias, and it stands louder and more public than before. Jewish immigrants in North America and Europe,…
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Caterpillar to Acquire Australia’s RPM Global for $730 Million
By David Winning
SYDNEY--Mining software company RPM Global said it has agreed to a takeover by U.S. giant Caterpillar that values its equity at some 1.12 billion Australian dollars (US$730 million).
RPM Global said Caterpillar is...
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While Rockets Fans Hope for Russell Westbrook Reunion, All Signs Point Elsewhere
As soon as Fred VanVleet went down for what is likely to be the entire 2025-26 NBA season with a torn ACL, panic set in among Houston Rockets fans. The team’s two-way floor general and veteran leader was a major part of their rise to relevance.
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The Blogs: Full hearts and empty chairs | Shira Pasternak Be’eri
Hours after the hostage deal between Israel and Hamas was signed, I understood the meaning of the psalmist’s words: “We were like dreamers.”
After a series of partial hostage releases over the course of two years, the “Trump Deal”…
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