This week’s Torah reading marks the beginning of a new stage in the growth of our ancestral family founded by Avraham Avinu. With his marriage to Rivka, Yitzchak became the new director of the developing tribe. Then Ya’akov was sent back to…
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Sartorial Splendor
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A Christian at Islamic College London: What I Saw Beneath the Surface
I never set out to become a witness to the West’s unraveling. I was just a minister seeking to show God’s love to people. In short, I simply loved Muslims—deeply and sincerely—and believed that the surest way to honor that calling was to…
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A Turn-Up: For The Books!
The banning and censorship of sacred Jewish texts especially the Talmud by external authorities, notoriously the Catholic church, is a well-known blight in Jewish history. From the mid-13th century onwards in all countries where Catholicism held…
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Next Mission of Israel’s 180 Ambassadors: Moral Diplomacy in a Fractured World
FM Gideon Saar-speaks to journalists as Israeli Amba to the UN Danny Danon looks on ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the hostages and the Gaza war at the UN hq on August 5 2025 in NYC Photo by Angela Weiss/ Shmuel Legesse…
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Khosrow Alikordi: A Regime Tried to Silence a Lawyer—and Instead Exposed Itself
The Islamic Republic has always feared one kind of Iranian above all: a citizen who stands upright, refuses intimidation, and defends the truth without compromise. Khosrow Alikordi was exactly that Iranian — and the regime knew him well. A…
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Our Kids Should be in Shul
A version of this post appeared in Lindsey Bodner’s Substack newsletter, The Intentional Jewish Family. Most Orthodox parents want to raise children who are Jewishly literate and attached to the values and practices that define observant Jewish…
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Faces we must not walk past
Stop and read them! Read what? Those small remembrance pictures glued onto the giant columns in railway stations, bus stations, or any wall you pass by. It’s a relatively new phenomenon since October 7. Young, beautiful faces beaming with…
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The FBI Misreports Hate Crimes Against Jews
Jews were the victims of most religion-based hate crimes in 2024 according to a recently released FBI report (https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#). This distressing statistic, reported year after year, grabs attention but it is misleading….
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Part Three of a Three-Week Odyssey
For those of you who are still with me in reading my reflections on my recent journey to Israel, you’ve now come to what might be the best part of all. Let me explain….
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Pakistan’s Human Rights Reckoning Cannot Be Deferred Any Longer
A new layer of international pressure emerged on December 4, 2025, when 44 US lawmakers urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to impose Global Magnitsky sanctions on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief General Asim Munir. Led by…
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