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Throughout the Scroll of Esther, Mordechai (Mordecai) — the lead male hero of the story — is known by the name Mordechai. The Talmud (Chullin 139b) famously asks where we find an allusion to the name Mordechai in the Torah, before…

Language influences the way we relate to each other and ultimately defines our culture. When it comes to words of affection, English is missing out.

The words we have at our disposal shape the way we connect. In English, terms of endearment…

Athens on a Sunday night. Street after street, Palestine flags spray-painted on the walls. Half a block from my hotel, I stumble into Palestina Meze Bar.

A corrugated shopfront reads: Zionist Not Welcome Here.

Zionist, singular? Just one?…

In June 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before cameras and declared that Israel would become a “global communications centre.” The plan was elegant in its simplicity: lay a 254-kilometre fibre-optic cable along the existing…

Designing Editorial Freedom in the Age of AI

Everything began one afternoon, not with a breakthrough, but with a quiet realisation. I had just finished a collection of five books I wanted to publish — nearly two years of continuous work,…

I’ve been listening to an audiobook called The Man Who Stopped the Sultan, a vivid chronicle of the 15th‑century struggles within the various fiefdoms of Western Europe and also with the Ottoman Empire. What resonates most is not merely…

The weekend briefing that looks, at first blush, like dry diplomatic housekeeping is actually a historic indictment of the government: Benjamin Netanyahu’s long refusal to plan for Gaza’s “day after” has been exposed for what it was…

If Europe made itself the future, what followed was not immediate conquest, but something subtler.

When sequence becomes hierarchy, hierarchy begins to normalize replacement.

In the previous column, we saw how a growing strand of European…