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Trying to pin down a single “Israeli personality” is a bit like trying to capture lightning in a bottle—it is high-energy, multifaceted, and deeply rooted in a blend of Middle Eastern warmth and European grit. The most common term you…

When studying the laws of damages in Parshat Mishpatim, we come across the dangers of an open pit (Shmot 21:33-34):

If a man uncovers a pit (bor) or if a man digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey falls into it, the owner of…

Eric Hoffer, an American longshoreman, philosopher and a gentile, was able to tell our Jewish story succinctly and to the point by writing only a couple lines which, when I read it the first time, gave me goosebumps and caused to sit…

I studied Anita’s ring finger, wrapped in a blood-soaked brown paper towel. Then I glanced at her face, twisted into a grimace.

“Do you want to go to urgent care?” I asked.

“No thanks. It’ll coagulate and stop bleeding.”

As she…

Christianity’s central promise is not a rulebook. It is a revolution of the heart: radical love — of God, of neighbor, even of enemy. Yet across much of Christian history, that promise has been hollowed out by a persistent, theologically…

Since last Wednesday, the crisis between Iran and the United States has felt like watching a multi-screen film: in each arena, a different version of the same drama is projected, tailored primarily to domestic audiences and the political…

As AI enters Jewish organizations, many leaders are asking how to stay “human first.” The harder truth: technology doesn’t test our values it reveals whether we ever practiced them.

The phrase “human first” is everywhere right now.

We are living in the most religiously crowded and spiritually leaderless era in Orthodox Jewish history.

There are more rabbis than ever, more roshei yeshiva than ever, more kollelim, more batei medrash, more seforim, more shiurim, more…

If you’re anything like me, you probably belong to more WhatsApp groups than you can count — organized around hobbies, causes, schools, neighborhoods, shuls, and everything in between.

Most of us join these groups mainly to read what…

As a rule, you do not repatriate to a country you plan to work against or acquire its citizenship. Yet this is exactly what Andrey Khrzhanovskiy Jr., the son and grandson of influential Russian filmmakers Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Andrey…