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Until his brother, the former hostage Eli Sharabi, was released from Hamas’s hell in Gaza, we saw his younger brother Sharon almost every day at the Families’ Headquarters. Together with other family members, volunteers, and…

In the midst of Avram’s story, the Torah recounts an epic battle between two great alliances of kings in the Valley of Siddim, near the Dead Sea. In a final confrontation, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah rebelled against the more powerful…

It is one thing to weather a famine in the land of Canaan that was not heavier than the one that Jacob’s Israelite clan would experience (Gen 43:1), and it is another thing to opt to relocate to Egypt, where food was available, which is…

We are in the midst of a renaissance of music biopics. Last year brought us A Complete Unknown, featuring Timothée Chalamet’s electrifying performance as a young Bob Dylan. And this week, Jeremy Allen White channels a 31-year-old Bruce…

The real danger lies in the architecture, not the words — a response to Stephen Witt’s NYT article

When The New York Times published Stephen Witt’s “The AI Prompt That Could End the World” (October 10, 2025), it sounded like the…

In the beginning, before bewilderment and brilliance braided themselves into one story, the family of Terach stood whole. Terach fathers three sons: Avram, Nahor, and Haran. From Haran come three children: Lot, Milcah, and Yiscah; the sages…

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Why Israel’s art world is afraid of honest criticism

The Walk through Jerusalem

The artist talk had ended, but the air in the gallery still felt crowded—with words, with certainty, with…

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL

How the continuous Jewish presence in the Land of Israel has shaped the Jewish experience worldwide to this day

Jews today are often challenged on the historical connection of the Jewish People with the…

The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less than 24 hours, climate scientists said. Melissa is currently a Category 5 storm, the highest category, with sustained wind…

Seven years have passed since that terrible morning in Pittsburgh when a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue and murdered eleven Jews at prayer, the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. For those of us in the Jewish…