Dr Shakshuka, Forgiveness, and the Jewish Search for Belonging In my ongoing reflections on faith, desistance, and belonging, I’ve found that redemption stories often appear where we least expect them. This time, it came as a restaurant…
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Acceptance Test
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Shifting Sands
Whatever may happen to the state of American democracy, a Democratic or a Republican administration might abandon the deference to Israeli fears which have largely governed American policy since 1967. Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Why Don’t We All Just Go?
Why don’t we all just go? Not a few hundred idealists or retirees, not the ones between jobs or on gap year visas, but all of us—American Jews, nearly half the world’s Jewish population. Pack up, say thank you to America for the chapter it…
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The Lost Boys Right: How Disconnected Young Men Are Rebirthing an Ancient Hate
Something dark is stirring among the young men of the West. They are intelligent, online, and angry, and the first generation to inherit both limitless information and limitless disillusionment. They scroll through irony and grievance until those…
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Hebron, Sovereignty, and the Divine Reset
This Week’s Parsha Debunks the Lie “And Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver… four hundred shekels of silver, accepted by merchants. So the field of Ephron in Machpelah… and the cave within it were established to Abraham as a…
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Palestine: From an Inclusive Geographic Term to an Exclusively Arab National Designation
HISTORY MATTERS BECAUSE FACTS MATTER Palestine: From an Inclusive Geographic Term to an Exclusively Arab National Designation The term “Palestinian” underwent a gradual but far-reaching transformation from an inclusive geographic designation to…
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A Comeback Story
Last Sunday, I ran in Yad Leah’s Dash for Dignity 5K charity run. The organization provides clothing to Israeli families in need. The community-wide event featured families and dogs of all ages. It also had music, raffles and two hype guys. But…
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Mamdani’s Masks: The Left’s War in Puerto Rico
Forget the polite headlines and photo ops about “diversity.” Unquestionably, Zohran Mamdani’s trip to Puerto Rico was not cultural diplomacy — it was ideological warfare. The self-proclaimed “socialist from New York” did not fly to…
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Blessed moments
The evening sky shimmers, back lit by the last rays of sun light, coloring it a soft iridescent rose. It spreads above like an ancient tapestry, its color gradually fading into the deep dark as night falls. And so it goes. Time’s steady pace…
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Language — and the courage to humanize — matters.
A few hours ago, I found myself in a brief but revealing exchange with a friend — someone I’ve known for years — who has grown deeply passionate, and one might say fully one-sided, about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. What began as a…
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