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One of those curious ‘coincidences’ of our calendar is that Purim, the festival where vesture plays such a prominent role, is usually enwrapped by two sidrot devoted to descriptions of apparel. In Tetsave the sacred Kohanic garments were…

To Inspire OUR Instant National, Political, Social, and Cultural Maturation – Recall: Yosef, Moshe, and Esther → each in their historic moment ⇒ saved ALL Israel. So what did these National Saviors have in common? [1] They each had very…

Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Treaty Law, and the Elastic Standard Spain Cannot Contain

Gibraltar is not a peripheral anomaly. It is the cleanest stress test of modern recognition doctrine.

When European states—including…

The Board of Hypocrisy Part 2

If part one exposed the contradiction of empowering states that do not even recognize Israel, part two examines a different layer of the same problem. Countries that claim strategic relevance, regional influence,…

The Mamluks did not come to Jerusalem to Daven.

They came with horses and steel and the discipline of men who had once been owned. Slave-soldiers who rose high enough to overcome their task masters and rule an empire.

And yet, they…

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing Light of your own Being.”
                                             ~Hafez 

We were sitting at a low table during free play, the kind…

Today, Narendra Modi will become the first Indian prime minister to address the Knesset. The coverage will likely focus on high-level symbolism: two democracies, a warm personal rapport between leaders, a shared suspicion of political Islam….

We are now in the year 5786 after creation. We believe that we can prove by way of the Torah and Talmud, that this number is accurate.

If we were to add up the number of years from Adam to Avraham Avinu, we would find that he was born in the…

Some sentences look simple but smuggle in whole philosophies of life. Take what linguists call a counterfactual conditional: a sentence that talks about something that did not happen, in the form “If X had happened, Y would have…

What does Judaism say about space aliens?

While the question might seem like the beginning of a Purim joke, the truth is that rabbis in every generation are asked to wrestle with traditional Jewish teachings in light of modern discoveries and…