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As an intermittent user of dating apps, I’ve learned that the world of digital romance reveals far more than personal taste. Scrolling through profiles, I began to notice a recurring dealbreaker: If you voted for Trump, swipe…

The name Palestine occupies an extraordinarily politicized position in the study of Near Eastern ethnonyms and toponyms. Its contested etymology has long ceased to be a matter of neutral philology; it has become a cipher for competing claims…

In Parshas Lech Lecha, Avraham starts his journey, which is really our journey to Eretz Yisrael. Eretz Yisrael is a central point in the entire Torah with a tremendous amount of depth and meaning. I’d like to focus on one topic and see how…

Today’s massive demonstration here in Jerusalem against the draft of their eligible men by Israel’s Haredi community is the height of chutzpah on a number of counts.

As a Matter of Principle

The fact that the Haredi community is…

Fatima Bhutto — novelist, columnist, and daughter of Mir Murtaza Bhutto — recently took to social media to express what she called “shame” over Pakistan’s current direction. Reacting to my article Pakistan’s Pragmatic Turn: The…

Trump was a long-expected beloved prince in Japan. The eagerness of people to see him, the tight security, and the environment of the city all signaled that someone important was coming to Tokyo.

When Donald Trump’s Air Force One landed in…

Zohar (Bereshit):

Many government employees are familiar with that dreaded moment when their personal beliefs are compromised by policy directives imposed by their superiors. What should they do when their red lines are violated?

All too often the challenged…

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (19th-century Germany) found symbolic meaning in the colors of the rainbow:

Each color— remember Mr. “ROY G. BIV” — represents a different kind of being. The outermost ring, red, closest to the heavens, is…

If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you.” (The Kotzker Rebbe)

What defines us at our…