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Our Jewish tradition warns against the character flaw of ingratitude. The Sages (in Midrash Shemot Rabbah) even point out that a person (like Pharaoh) who ignores or denies the good done for him by others will ultimately ignore and deny the…

This Shabbat we read the double portion of Vayakhel–Pekudei as part of the weekly Torah cycle. Because it is also the eve of the month of Nisan, we read an additional section from Exodus 12, known as Parashat HaChodesh, which introduces the…

We are living in historic times!

Who among us can have failed last week to recognise the stark truth of Ramban’s famous saying ma’aseh avot siman le-banim – “what happens to our ancestors is a signpost for [what will happen to] their…

President Trump on Thursday endorsed Brandon Herrera, the de facto GOP nominee for a Texas congressional district whose past comments about Nazis have drawn scrutiny.

“Brandon is strongly supported by many Highly…

There are two internationally important events each year in the publishing calendar: the Frankfurt Book Fair in the autumn and the London Book Fair in the spring. There are others but they’re also-rans: these are the two that matter most,…

When Bechor Chai Swid heard, on the morning of October seventh, that his friends were being slaughtered, he drove toward them immediately. It didn’t matter to him that the area was swarming with terrorists and he had no weapon

When commentators claim that Chabad is somehow orchestrating wars or dragging the United States into conflict, they are not offering serious analysis. They are repeating one of the oldest antisemitic tropes in history: the idea that Jews…

While the United States has established a “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza’s reconstruction, global headlines are almost entirely focused on the enormous sums expected to flow into Gaza from Western countries. Very little attention is…

Back in mid-February, while the security tensions between Washington and Tehran were still simmering, American kids started flooding TikTok with videos pleading to an all-powerful entity. They call him BIG YAHU; we know him as Bibi. One of…

This past week, the 20 millionth of the 21 million bitcoins that will ever exist was mined, leaving fewer than one million left to be mined over the coming decades. This milestone was reached while the digital asset market is in a daunting…