A complex legal dispute unfolding in a US federal court as well as in Swiss jurisdiction over the global titanium trade is beginning to intersect with broader regional dynamics – including Israel’s growing economic alignment with Bahrain…
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The Blogs: Mishpatim and the Refusal of Permanent Exile | Claire R. Bright
Welcome to Series 2!
This last Shabbat we read Mishpatim. The shift is abrupt. We move from the narrative drama of Exodus — with stories that can and do fill West End/Broadway stages — into pages of laws: damages, restitution,…
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The Blogs: Trump doubles down | Yoseph Janowski
Now it looks like Trump is ready to attack Iran, as reportedly talks are at an impasse, and many armaments are being sent to the region.
There now seems to be a momentum.
These are wondrous times. Monumental events. Spectacular and…
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The Blogs: Hamas Is Not Going Anywhere and Will Remain Armed | Kerry Landon-Lane
Once this reality sinks in, improvements can begin. Critically, President Trump can stop the drift to an ugly status quo for Gaza
Trump’s stage one of peace in Gaza has essentially been achieved as the last hostage’s body has been…
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The Blogs: The Campaign Against AIPAC | Michael J. Lewis
It’s impossible to be on social media these days and not be confronted with a slew of posts and articles vitriolically attacking Israel and American supporters of Israel, including very-much so, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee…
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The Blogs: ‘The Curtain Falls’ Parashat Teruma 5786 | Ari Sacher
The Tabernacle (Mishkan) accompanied the Jewish people from shortly after the Exodus until it was replaced by the Holy Temple (Beit HaMikdash) built by King Solomon, nearly five hundred years later. Solomon’s Temple was destroyed by the…
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The Blogs: Concentrated Divine Presence (Terumah) | Ben-Tzion Spitz
“The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me then another is the quantity of heart I find in it.” -Jane Welsh Carlyle
Man is often likened to a universe onto himself. Ibn Ezra relates to this theme often and states that by…
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Redated Skulls in China Suggest Homo Erectus Spread Faster or Earlier Than Thought
Three somewhat distorted skulls found in Yunxian, central China, thought to be 800,000 to a million years old, have been redated to 1.77 million years in age, profoundly changing our understanding of the expansion of early humanity in Eurasia.
We…
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The Blogs: The Jewess Patriot
The latest virus killing the Jewish population isn’t assimilation or antisemitism, it’s the unspoken disease of single life.
She’s gorgeous, he is rich. You would think they were to follow the “bill of goods” of that “American…
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The Blogs: A Day in the Life – seeing the patient as a person | Ben Lazarus
Have you ever been on a Zoom call where the screen freezes. Well yesterday the person on the call with me thought the screen had frozen but in fact it was me!
I am aware that there are not many people with an advancing terminal disease who are…
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