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Every morning, at 4:30 AM, it wakes me.  Like clockwork. It’s a high-pitched ringing in my left ear. The advertised dietary supplements don’t work & I’m terrible about using the high-tech wrist device that allegedly helps make it go…

When I look at Israel and Sudan side by side, I see a comparison that many people refuse to acknowledge.

In Sudan, large-scale Arab colonialism reshaped the demographic and cultural landscape over centuries, often at the expense of indigenous…

The Middle East is a region marked by the predominance of Islam. Israel occupies only 0.3% of the total area, with about 22,000 km² of territory.

In contrast, the Middle East covers approximately 7 million km², of which 90% of the…

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL

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The Safed-Jerusalem Shemittah Controversy of 1504:
A Community Divided

In 1504, twelve years after the Spanish Expulsion, a halachic controversy over calculating the Sabbatical year erupted between…

To say that last February 20 was a dark day would be the understatement of the year.

It was a dark day that we could see coming, facing inevitable heartbreak that we could try to intellectually imagine yet still not emotionally prepare for,…

As I listen to the last few Prakim of the Nach Yomi cycle, a sense of fulfillment encompasses my soul.
I am on the East Coast and the freezing cold does not penetrate my body or mind.

It is as if a protective layer of holiness wraps itself…

Introduction

The Abraham Accords are a series of landmark diplomatic agreements, initiated in 2020, that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab nations, facilitated by the United States. These agreements marked the first…

How stable societies make cultural survival possible

A stable natural foundation does more than sustain ecosystems or economies. It shapes the conditions under which human cultures endure.

Throughout history, the survival of peoples has…

An Illinois congresswoman who is running for U.S. Senate said during a debate Thursday night that she believed Israel committed a genocide in Gaza, in the latest sign of a sea change in Democratic sentiment about Israel.

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