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What is a proper Jewish understanding of a prime minister’s request for a pardon for acts of corruption against the state? One would think that you could turn to Jewish law experts for an answer, or to a populist response coming from the…

Since Sunday school, when I molded clay dreidels that immediately collapsed and painted slightly crooked murals on the walls of my synagogue, I’ve expressed my Jewish identity through art. I didn’t think of it that way at the time. It was…

There is only one recorded incident of someone joining the Jewish People as they travel through the desert. In this week’s parasha, the Jews are visited by a guest. Yitro, Moshe’s father in law, one of the most thoughtful characters in…

Jewish characters on television are often written as symbols — of suffering, politics or cultural anxiety. What sets HBO’s medical drama The Pitt apart is that its Jewish lead physician, Dr. Michael “Robby” Rabinavitch, is portrayed…

What could be worse than two masked men, breaking and entering into a house in the silent darkness of the early morning hours, alarming a big dog who barks to warn her household?

A woman wakes and grabs her phone, enters the lounge half…

The sixth annual International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit took place from February 2–4 in Washington, D.C., and it wrapped up with a powerful message: the global fight for the freedom to believe is heating up just as repression is on…

In 1991, Somaliland regained its independence, which had been lost in 1960. The unification was achieved not through formal discussions or widely shared intellectual perspectives, but rather through the determination and love of the Somali…

This book by Jan Brokken, originally published in Dutch and translated into English by David McKay, describes the almost accidental process by which thousands of Jews were able to receive…

In this polarized, 24/7 news feed cycle society in which we live today, we are regularly bombarded by lies, half-truths, politicians publicly dissing people with whom they disagree as well as flat-out disinformation. Recognizing that this is…

Thiel, Thunberg, Yudkowsky, and the End of Argument

A Narrow Claim, A Public Test

If you admire Peter Thiel, supported Trump, or believe Western institutions are paralyzed by bureaucracy, this essay is not a moral indictment of your position….