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Financial markets do not fear headlines; they fear sustained changes to cash flows, discount rates, and systemic stability. The emotionally charged question of whether markets should fear war in Israel or debt in the United States more is…

If there is only one God why are there so many religions? A good question that I as a Rabbi have often been asked; and this is my answer.

The Qur’an declares that Allah could have made all of us monotheists, a single religious community, but…

Looking away from the news just enough to pick up my phone, I texted my dad.

“Do you think Shiri is maybe still alive? I know they weren’t actually taken by Hamas but by a different terrorist group, like Arbel was.”

Swiping out of my…

I attended the Congregação Israelita Paulista (CIP) for a Solemn Act in Memory of the victims of the Holocaust. The ceremony honored the six million Jews murdered, as well as all other victims of the Nazi regime.

Among those present, the…

Perhaps the first antisemitic joke in my life directed at me personally was about me being mixed rather than simply Jewish. A classmate learned that I had both Jewish and German ancestry and exclaimed, “I’ve just discovered the cause of…

Jewish day schools are at a pivotal moment in their work to support diverse learners. More students are entering classrooms with a wide range of learning profiles, while educators and school leaders are working, often in isolation, to build…

Seeing clearly changes what can be ignored.

In the previous part, the mechanism was named and the possibility it reveals became clearer. Once such a possibility is recognized, attention naturally shifts from diagnosis to responsibility —…

I remember well that when I was studying at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, we went to classes in the neighboring music school. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas had made a prodigious donation to the University…

Dear Doctors Without Borders Morals,

Thanks to you, to your brave honesty, now we know.

Last week you announced that you are unable to operate in Gaza because of the presence of Hamas forces and facilities in hospitals. And so, now we all…