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Since October 7, 2023, antisemitism has risen sharply and in well-documented ways around the world. From university campuses in the United States to the streets of London, Paris, and Berlin, anti-Jewish incidents have spiked – both online…

In global discussions about economic resilience, financial exclusion rarely gains sufficient focus. It seldom dominates headlines and almost never commands the urgency reserved for security or geopolitical threats. In Israel, however, access…

I must have read the Book of Esther (Megillah) hundreds of times. So it comes as a surprise that this year I discovered something that I had never seen before. The name “Mordechai” appears in the Megillah fifty-eight times. We all know…

As I write this on February 26, 2026, many of us in Israel are carrying the same unspoken weight: will a larger war engulf us in the coming days. We can look to this week’s Parsha for some inspiration.

The uncertainty is palpable. U.S….

Last week, the “Board of Peace” established by President Trump convened in Washington. The week before, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced Israel’s joining of the board (even though this decision is the purview of the entire…

Megillat Esther is the only adventure story in our Bible. It is fully self contained. It has a beginning, middle and end. It also neither references any other part of Tanach, nor relies on material elsewhere in Tanach. It also has a dramatic…

If part one examined the democratic deficits of the so called stakeholders, and part two exposed the strategic double games of regional powers, part three confronts the central question.

What are the consequences for Israel if this framework…

There is a fascinating meeting that took place in 1952, that had serious ramifications on the religious direction the young State of Israel was choosing.

The meeting was between Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and the “Visionary Man” of…

On Purim, the world turns upside down.

Our streets and synagogues transform into a vibrant chaos of superheroes and queens, clowns and beasts. It is a day where children delight in the shedding of their identities, and adults embrace the…

After he finishes his homework and various types of practice, and his younger brother is asleep, each night my 12 year old son and I watch an episode of Ted Lasso together. This is my first time watching it, I know I am a few years late to…