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Dennis Coyle stepped off the plane in Texas this week after 421 days in Taliban captivity. The 64-year-old Christian linguist from Pueblo, Colorado, had worked legally in Afghanistan for nearly twenty years developing language resources for…

The University of Cape Town (UCT) a formerly venerable university in South Africa, respected worldwide, has announced that it will be awarding an honorary doctorate to Dr Imtiaz Sooliman at its graduation ceremonies in March/April 2026.

The…

A six-year-old child recently described the Seder’s four children like this. “There’s one who’s good. One who’s naughty. And two more who listen.” I love this take on the simple and un-asking children. It actually got me to listen…

Why sacrifices? To be sure, they have not been part of the life of Judaism since the destruction of the Second Temple, almost two thousand years ago. But why, if they are a means to an end, did God choose this end? This is, of course, one of…

How small businesses are using automation to survive April’s filing chaos

Every year, the same scene plays out in thousands of Israeli offices: stacks of receipts, frantic WhatsApp messages to accountants, missing invoices discovered at the…

In the weeks following October 7, Israeli society did what democracies do under pressure. It argued. Families of hostages stood in front of cameras and demanded answers. Military analysts questioned timing and strategy. Former officials spoke…

When the Fire No Longer Depends on You

The fire was already there — before Aharon, before the gesture, before the song. It burned. Not because someone deserved it, not because someone felt it. It burned because it had been given. And now…

The climax of the Passover story and of the ten plagues is the visit of the Mashchit (the destroyer) to the Egyptian houses to slay their first born. This force, often attributed to the direct intervention of G-d, has occupied my mind during…

On the 47th anniversary of the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, it is easy to forget how much the gamble taken by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat was considered a dangerous, almost delusional, fantasy.

Today, as we examine…

Winston Churchill’s defeat in the first parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom after World War II still raises eyebrows: how could the British fail to support the man who had effectively saved their country—and later much of…