D’VAR TORAH Parshat VaYetze Over the course of my life, I have “left home” multiple times. Fortunately for me, each time I have left a place I called home it has been a positive choice. Like Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 12, I have been…
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The challenge of being a child of Israel and Jacob
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3I/ATLAS Is Shaping the New World Order — And the Next UN/IAWN Planetary Defense
3I/ATLAS Is Shaping the New World Order — And the Future of UN/IAWN Planetary Defense The presence of 3I/ATLAS now shadows every discussion about our shifting world order — and every debate about the future of planetary defense. The ducks…
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Preventive Pardon for Netanyahu?
Preventive Pardon for Netanyahu? The proposal of a preventive pardon for a sitting Prime Minister—whether stated openly or suggested quietly—confronts Israel with a question that reaches far beyond the immediate political moment. Does the…
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An Added Dimension: Tom Stoppard. In Memoriam
The HEIGHTS OF FREEDOM and the PIERCING HEART Bright Star From the start of my professional career as a theatre dramatist, the name of Tom Stoppard was our brightest star – also because he was living and highly productive playwright, and was…
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Mr. President The World Is Not A Business
Almost 50 years ago the movie Network (1976) was released. The film is best known for the anchorman rant scene that features Howard Beale’s: “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” But it is also known for another…
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Israel: The Middle East’s Only Indigenous Outsider
A neighborhood that forgets everything insists the one nation that forgets nothing must defend its right to exist. It would border on comedy if it weren’t built on amnesia— and it would be mere amnesia if it weren’t repeated every…
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Israel needs to wipe out Hamas, regardless…
On Saturday evening, during a demonstration at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv attended by hundreds of people, Itzik Gvili, father of Ran, one of the hostages murdered by Hamas, made a very clear and indisputable point, as reported by The Times of…
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Ireland’s Herzog Park Moment: When the Colonized Learn to Erase
צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף זָכוֹר אַל תִּשְׁכַּח Ireland’s Herzog Park Moment: When the Colonized Learn to Erase The controversy around a small park in Rathgar is almost painfully symbolic. A Dublin City Council…
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Canada’s Qatar Visa Decision Reveals a Serious Policy Blind Spot
Canada’s decision on November 25, 2025, to lift visa requirements for Qatari citizens was announced quietly and without public explanation. While presented as an administrative update, the move carries wider implications for national security…
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What Palestinians Really Want (Part II): Beyond the Headlines
Why anger isn’t antisemitism — and what the data actually shows. In this post I would like to address and sharpen issues not addressed in the previous post. The question of the importance of antisemitism understanding the difference between…
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