There has been so much shared of survivors’ accounts of the atrocities they lived through in the Holocaust, but not nearly enough of the trauma they’ve passed onto their children, their children’s children and what future generations may…
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Survivor And Inherited Trauma – The Shoah and 10/7
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Self and Selves
Just when I think I have something to say about a certain issue (as there are oh, so many to choose), something else comes along and demands my attention. Strangely, what I have settled on is not new, nor is it ignored by others. Actually,…
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Jew Means Thanksgiving
The word Jew comes from Yehudi, a descendant of Yehuda. Yehuda is best known as the name of an ancient tribe and of the land of Judea, but the name itself, יְהוּדָה, comes from a Hebrew verb that means to give thanks. The name appears…
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The Late Shah of Iran Built a Nation. We Can’t Even Build a Backbone.
A rare video from Iran under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi is circulating online — and it is explosive. The video reveals Iran as it once was — orderly, modern, ambitious — and exposes the lies, fake accounts, and fear that keep today’s…
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The Quantum, The Jungian, and The Kabbalist. Physics, Psychology, and Mysticism.
The human experience is fundamentally a search for coherence. We navigate a world that often appears chaotic, fragmented, and indifferent. Nonetheless, we possess an innate desire to find a unifying thread connecting our inner world, soul,…
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Aramaic – A Living Semitic Memory
In an age of global mobility and dispersal, the phrase Christians of the East evokes both immediacy and distance. It gestures toward regions where the great monotheistic traditions emerged – Sumer, Assyria, ancient Israel – and toward communities…
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Tripoli for Golan? The New Middle East Power Play
Everyone’s celebrating or panicking over the wrong story. The real shockwave is this: Al-Sharaa is positioning himself to take Tripoli (Lebanon), a move that could shrink Hezbollah’s map and hand Israel a strategic win nobody saw coming. And…
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Sharp Edged Simcha
One of the quirkiest things about the Torah is the uneven flow of time from chapter to chapter. Some parshiyot are chock-full of action, and some feel like in the live-action movie of the Torah those scenes wouldn’t make the theatrical-release…
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Jewish moderate Julie Menin claims victory as next City Council speaker
Julie Menin, a Jewish New York City Councilwoman in Manhattan, declared victory on Wednesday in the race for council speaker, positioning herself as a potential moderating influence on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s…
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The ‘Common Sense’ Ideology
According to the Merriam–Webster Dictionary, common sense is defined as “sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts.” I am 69 years old. Age alone does not guarantee wisdom, but it does provide the…
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