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I was born a Jew and grew up surrounded by Jewish stories, traditions, and contradictions. I saw how our communities live both with the memory of the past and with the hope for the future. Some chose the path of strict Orthodoxy, others…

American sanctions on three Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the heart of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel may end up being the torpedo Pretoria didn’t see coming.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in…

Won’t happen.

Israel realized on October 7 that they should never again give away any land. It’s too dangerous.

So why were Macron and other leaders so eager to announce that they recognize a Palestinian state?

Well, for one thing, they…

E22/2025

Dedicated in the merit (zechus) of Ari Elan ben Rochel Gittel ארי אילן בן רחל גיטל  for a refuah sheleimah — a complete and speedy recovery.

On September 15, 1981—just two weeks before Rosh Hashanah—I…

Everyone’s favorite anti-circumcision duo is back — The New Yorker and Gary Shteyngart. Their latest collaboration is a video version of the author’s botched circumcision article from October 2021. If you thought it was difficult to…

For families affected by Huntington’s disease, each diagnosis has carried with it a heavy certainty — an inherited fault in a single gene triggering a relentless decline in memory, movement, and personality. For decades, medicine had…

Guido Crosetto, Italy’s cack-handed Defense Minister, has managed to outdo himself, even by the farcical standards of Italian politics, where buffoonery is not a bug but the system’s defining feature. Dispatching the Virginio Fasan—a…

This week’s parshat Vayelech begins with an intriguing statement from Moses;

Moses went (וַיֵּ֖לֶךְ) and spoke these things to all Israel. He said to them: I am now one…

I created this as a way to provide a teaching on Tashlich.

As the congregation gathered by the water’s edge for tashlich, one by one, people stepped forward to cast away their sins.

The first person reached into a bag and scattered bird…

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Original Sin

Our Gemara describes the offerings that the nesi’im brought when the Mishkan was inaugurated as Chattas Nachshon. Even though all the nesi’im brought this sacrifice, it was named after Nachshon, the Nasi of Shevet Yehuda Continue Reading