When I was in grade school, my oldest sister was involved in a foreign exchange student club called AFS while she was in high school. I will never forget this one weekend that students involved with the AFS program from around the globe came to…
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Munther Isaac and the Theology of Moral Certainty
Western Christianity today listens most closely to voices that speak with moral certainty. This is what attracted so many to Charlie Kirk. Every podcast I can think of displays rhetoric marked by absolute confidence. This is not because those…
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Eritrea: The Silent Dictatorship
The Dictatorship Nobody Talks About: Eritrea’s Silent Crisis Most people have never heard of Eritrea.It’s a small country on the Horn of Africa, next to Ethiopia and Sudan, with a population smaller than some major cities. And yet, it is home…
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Moroccan Hebrew: Empire’s Living Bridge
Moroccan Jewry, the largest in the Islamic world before 1948, maintained a rare fusion of Hebrew and Maghrebi Arabic that functioned as a linguistic bridge across centuries. Unlike European Jewry, which confined Hebrew to prayer, Moroccan Jews…
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The Eight Nights of Hanukkah, Dateline 5786
How fast the earth spins! How quickly children grow! How furiously the cold wind blows during this chilly and dark month of Kislev. In other words, it’s time to ramp up my annual what-I-want-the-Hanukkah-Man-to-Bring-Me list. Newsflash. There…
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When We Look Away from the Victim: A Prosecutor’s Trial and the World’s Memory
My last trial as a prosecutor in the Family Violence Bureau has stayed with me like a shadow. The defendant faced charges of aggravated assault—domestic violence through strangulation. Anyone who has handled one of these cases knows what I knew…
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Publicizing the Miracle, Illuminating Our Future
On the first night of Chanukah, millions of Jews around the world draw back their curtains and place a menorah on their windowsill for all to see. Passersby witness this quiet yet powerful broadcast of faith and hope—an expression woven deeply…
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At Hanukkah, We Cannot Let Our Elders Sit In Darkness
This Hanukkah, We Cannot Let Our Elders Sit In Darkness Alone Hanukkah always brings me home. Not physically — but emotionally. It’s the holiday that weaves together memory, family, ritual, and the quiet reassurance of sitting together around…
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This is how I see Free Will
My reactions to the newest Thoughts to Ponder by Rabbi Cardozo My friend and teacher sent around important words on Volition. My take is different from everyone’s. Read his post to know what I’m reacting to. Only philosophers see a paradox…
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Into the Fray: Strange Bedfellows in Hate: From Carlson to the Caucasus
Why are my tax dollars being used to murder Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh – to murder Armenian Christians? – Tucker Carlson, November 8, 2025 One of the issues causing grave concern for the future of the GOP is the troubling rise of antisemitism…
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