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The word Terumah was inherited from the Torah. In the Torah, Terumah is the name of a parashah, and it refers to giving a portion as a gift. The root of the word is ר–ו–ם (resh–vav–mem), which means “to elevate” or “to raise…

Why Israel Has Become the World’s Moral Battleground

Walk through Europe today and you see magnificent churches — soaring ceilings, stained glass, stone that has endured for centuries. You visit great synagogues too, some restored, some…

The high-stakes diplomacy unfolding in Algiers this week marks a decisive pivot in the battle for Africa’s energy future. General Abdourahamane Tiani, the leader of Niger’s military government, met with Algerian President Abdelmadjid…

An article by my friend Thane Rosenbaum should be read by and circulated to all those ostrich-like political conservatives who ignore, deny or trivialize present-day antisemitism in their midst.

“The antisemitic fervor and hatred of Israel…

Next week is the annual convention for the major organization in my field, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). I have been a NASP member since the late 1990s and have rarely missed this conference. The conference is…

In August 2012, President Barack Obama warned that if the Syrian government under Bashar al-Assad used or moved chemical weapons, it would mark a “game-changer”—the crossing of a red line that could shift U.S. policy toward military…

Ramadan begins today. Across the Muslim world, nearly two billion people will turn toward Mecca in the predawn darkness, whisper the niyyah of fasting, and enter the most sacred month of the Islamic calendar – the month in which the Quran…

When One Intelligence Is No Longer Enough

We were building a local voice assistant.

Not a cloud chatbot, but a real system running on Linux: a microphone capturing audio in real time, an offline transcription engine processing speech, and an…

There was a time when the fog of war allowed confusion to masquerade as certainty.

That time has passed.

The fighting in Gaza has largely wound down. The hostages have been released. Large-scale offensives have stopped. Claims have been…

Europe loves lecturing the world about “values.” Meanwhile, power is being consolidated in the shadows—far from Brussels, beyond the EU’s moral pageantry, and increasingly outside its grasp.

One of the most telling examples? The quiet…