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The expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) has officially ended fifty years of binding limits on the world’s nuclear superpowers. But while the world’s eyes are fixed on the silos of the Great Powers, a more…

As an American Jew, it’s impossible to look upon our Israeli brothers and sisters and not sense that they are, in many ways, a breed apart. The difference is not one of genetics or theology, but of experience—a spirit forged by the daily…

How African Societies Preserved Law, Science, and Memory Long Before Europe Achieved Archival Continuity

Series Introduction

History is often taught as if libraries, archives, and the preservation of knowledge followed a single European…

The protests against Illegal immigration enforcement, the Black Lives Matter movement, Occupy Wall Street, ANTIFA, and the demonstrations against Israel’s right to exist are all branches of the same ideological tree. These protests are not…

When reading Mishpatim, one discovers that the Torah’s laws are less about rules than about shaping how we treat one another—and ourselves. Law after law, case after case, it insists that how we behave toward others is inseparable from…

Introduction

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently claimed that Jeffrey Epstein’s “unusual close relationship” with former prime minister Ehud Barak proves Epstein was not an Israeli intelligence asset. Writing on X, Netanyahu…

( Reflections on the Haftorah to Mishpatim)

( Jeremiah 34:8 -22, 33:25-26)

“To proclaim liberty throughout the land

Unto all the inhabitants thereof”

Is the essence of being born free,

For each human being to choose life’s…

When one person injures another, the Bible states that the damager must pay “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth…” (Ex. 21:24). Of course, the rabbis teach (Bava Kamma 83b-84a) that this does not refer to any sort of actual bodily…

Stories about indigenous groups claiming descent from the Lost Tribes of Israel surface across the globe. In some cases – most notably the Lemba of Southern Africa – genetic evidence has supported those claims. In other cases, there is no…

Why Šnipiškės Is the Church’s Responsibility

The Holocaust in Lithuania did not occur at the margins of society. It unfolded inside one of the most deeply Catholic countries in Europe, within a moral order shaped by Catholic authority,…