A concerning change is occurring in Germany, subtle enough to be overlooked by those who aren’t paying attention, but clear to anyone observing closely. A society that once defined itself by its vigilance against antisemitism is slowly losing the…
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Germany Is Forgetting What ‘Never Again’ Means
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Maternal Impressions (Vayetze)
“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” -Henry Ward Beecher I recall, when we were expecting our first child, there was a popular trend of playing classical music for the fetus. The belief was that it somehow affected the unborn…
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Seven Days Out for Australia’s Hanson, None for Hate
How convenient that Pauline Hanson gets suspended from the Senate just as Black Friday sales kick off. Fingers crossed black kettles are on sale—never has Parliament served up such a textbook pot calling the kettle black moment. Hanson had…
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The Dream, The Love and the Struggle
Remember Godley & Creme?The two talented Jewish boys who helped shape the sound of 10cc — and who, in 1976, released a song called The Things We Do for Love. Why mention that song? Read on. Back in the mid-80s, my friend Eddie told me…
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Enoch’s Watchers, the Nephilim, and the B’Nei Elokhim of Genesis
Genesis 6:1–4 בראשית ו׳:א–ד וַיְהִי כִּי־הֵחֵל הָאָדָם לָרֹב עַל־פְּנֵי הָאֲדָמָה וּבָנוֹת יֻלְּדוּ לָהֶם׃ וַיִּרְאוּ בְנֵי־הָאֱלֹהִים…
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Rav Kook on Parshat Vayetzeh: The Home of Jacob’s Universal Mission
“וַיֵּצֵא יַעֲקֹב מִבְּאֵר שָׁבַע וַיֵּלֶךְ חָרָנָה׃ – Jacob left Beer-sheba, and set out for Haran” (Breishit 28:10) And so begins Yaakov’s journey into exile as he flees Esau’s wrath. In his…
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O JERUSALEM! Personal reflections on two mega-gatherings in the Holy City
Last month, I was privileged to be one of the thirtysomething delegates worldwide (two of us from Australia for the very first time) representing the Orthodox slate Eretz HaKodesh at the quinquennial World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, attended…
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Exodus in African & Jewish Liberation
(This is Article 3 of the seven-part series, “Bridges of Liberation: Jewish & African Paths to Freedom.” The full disclaimer regarding the author’s independent views is contained in the preceding article: Article 1: We Want You Back. We have…
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Settler Colonialism: Politicized, Ahistorical, Dangerous
Recently, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies imposed a policy mandating territorial land acknowledgements for academics wishing to submit articles to their journal, or participate in the annual conference, or who work or study at an…
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India Forged a New Kind of Power and Its Constitution Was the Engine
On 26 November, when the Preamble is spoken in Samvidhan Sadan and in schools from Kohima to Kochi, India is not recalling an old ceremony. It is reminding a distracted world that in 2025 the most serious conversation on constitutionalism is…
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