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Something remarkable is unfolding in Pakistan — quietly, deliberately, and against all historical precedent. For a country long defined by its hard-line approach, the recent trajectory suggests not merely a policy adjustment but a…

Despite the gut-wrenching trauma of October 7 and the many failures that led to it, the next general election is unlikely to bring about a political transformation. Even after the ceasefire, and the miraculous return home of the living…

When terror strikes the synagogue, too many of my fellow Christians sigh, grieve, and then scroll on. “Tragic,” they say, “but that’s their fight.” It isn’t. The same hate that slaughters on Shabbat doesn’t take a Sabbath rest….

Israel is approaching a defining election.
The next Knesset vote will not simply determine who sits in the Prime Minister’s Office — it will decide whether Israel remains a cohesive, democratic, and forward-looking society, or continues to…

On October 8, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti appeared on Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN and praised the people of Gaza for their “steadfastness and bravery.”

It sounded noble — dignified, even consoling — but it left me uneasy. What kind of…

By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the contradiction within Christianity had reached a breaking point. On one side, pro-slavery Christians bent theology to defend bondage with proof-texts and economic rationalizations. On the other,…

The Tower of Babel and the AI Boom: A Weekly Torah Reading for Our Tech Moment

Parashat Noach (Genesis 11:1–9) arrives just as the world rides a crest of AI exuberance. The Torah’s brief, piercing tale of a people unified in purpose and…

The future of assassination is here — and it is cheap, deniable, and flying over our heads. Drones are no longer toys. They are the new weapons of dictators and terrorists, designed to terrorize civilians, cripple infrastructure, and even…

Judy Maltz, a journalist for Haaretz, has just returned from a project involving American Jewish college kids; the object was to find out what October 7, 2023, means to them, has it changed their regard for Israel, etc. It’s a vast topic if…

A rabbi’s quiet mission to revive a forgotten breed from Jerusalem — and to remind us that compassion, too, is a form of Torah.

The weekly Torah portion Noah feels deeply personal to me. It is not only about survival, but about the sacred…