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The Left’s Convenient Amnesia

The academic left did not critique the Enlightenment. It declared it morally tainted and beyond repair. That declaration has become ritualized. It is repeated often enough to feel settled. It is neither…

In 2021, Rabbi Gilad Kariv was elected to the Knesset, becoming the first Reform rabbi to serve in Israel’s parliament. Elected as part of the Labor Party’s slate, Kariv now represents the Democratic Party (a merging of Labor and…

A Name Should Continue the Golden Chain

This past Shabbos, my granddaughters went to receive a bracha from a Tzedeket. The person asked them a simple but profound question: what are your names, and what do your names mean? For her, a shem was…

Principle as branding: a lecture with missing targets

Professor Jeffrey Sachs came to the Security Council with a familiar performance: an oration on the sanctity of the UN Charter, delivered with pious optimism and a practiced air of…

I’ve decided, I am like Israel.

In my younger years I stayed quiet. I adapted to abusive treatment. I made excuses- oh people are just like that, oh everyone has to deal with weird stuff, oh that’s just part of life, oh people don’t…

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Long before Scofield: Three centuries of pre-dispensational Zionism

Critics often (wrongly) claim that Christian Zionism began with 19th-century dispensationalists like John Nelson Darby or the…

The incorporation of artificial intelligence into the workforce has been accompanied by optimism and fear in equal measure. Today, emerging use cases in Israel show that AI and HR can not only coexist but also thrive on the global stage. 

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Estate planning is easy to put off. It can feel uncomfortable, complex, and distant from our daily concerns. Yet in Jewish tradition, preparing for what comes after us is not something to fear. It is an act of meaning and responsibility. A…

If Israeli lawmakers sign the death penalty bill that National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is proposing, they will be enshrining Israel with the international pariah status not only of executioner, but also – by definition – of…

Across the world, democracies continue to make the same mistake. We ask voters to choose their leaders based on speeches, slogans, and campaign storytelling, then act surprised when those leaders fail to deliver. Elections have become…