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If we stop and think about it, the opening verses of Parshat Ki Tisa (Shemot/Exodus 30: 11-13) don’t quite add up.

וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהֹוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר׃

כִּ֣י תִשָּׂ֞א…

When the Mossad launched a Farsi-language Telegram channel on Saturday morning – hours into Operation Roaring Lion – and addressed Iranians as “our brothers and sisters,” promising that “together we will return Iran to its glorious…

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In the middle of a war against an enemy that has been threatening to destroy us for the last 47 years, what would one think is the most important issue of the day?

• Whether we will make it to the shelter before the rocket hits?
• Is our shelter…

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Purim is not my religious story. I am a Christian, but living in Israel it is impossible to ignore Purim’s themes. The Book of Esther describes a Jewish community in exile facing a state-backed threat of genocide inside the Persian Empire….

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