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How African States Monetized Trust, Governed Revenue, and Stabilized Markets While Europe Struggled to Standardize Money

Series Introduction

Public finance is where governance becomes real.

It is easy for a society to proclaim authority. It…

In recent weeks, it seems the entire world has been watching a familiar performance: the United States and Iran trading threats, belligerent statements, and carefully planted “leaks from senior officials,” with each side insisting it…

We are raising children in an era of unprecedented complexity. Our children are growing up in a world of constant comparison, instant gratification, social pressure, global uncertainty, and emotional overload. Anxiety and fragility have…

There’s a moment in Frankenstein when Victor finally understands what he has done — the creature he assembled, indulged, and failed to restrain is no longer wandering the world. It’s coming for him.

Human Rights Watch is living…

While serving in the Israeli cabinet and especially in the final years of his presidency, while the international community sat transfixed by the spinning centrifuges in Natanz, Shimon Peres turned the world’s gaze elsewhere. While…

A Hadith states; “There are Muslims who fast and get nothing from their fast except hunger, and there are those who pray and get nothing from their prayer but a sleepless night.” Prophet Muhammad.

Millions of people spend billions of…

A warning message by an Iranian dissident opposed to the Islamic Republic

From inside Iran, one learns early that antisemitism is never accidental. It is taught, enforced, and exported. Under the Islamic Republic, hatred of Jews is not a side…

I recently initiated a poll in my WhatsApp group for Hebrew educators, asking a simple question: “Does the Super Bowl belong in a Hebrew lesson?” The results were telling. The majority of my colleagues felt there was no connection, but as…

The Ten Commandments appear twice in the Torah. It is found in Parshat Yitro in the Book of Shemot, and again in Parshat Va’etchanan in the Book of Devarim.
There are some differences in the texts in each Parsha. The most glaring difference…

Towards the end of Parshat Mishpatim, God informs the children of Israel that He has assigned an angel to lead them on their future sojourn:

“Look, I am about to send a messenger before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place…