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Parashat Yitro contains the peak moment of the book of Exodus. So much happens in such rapid succession leading up this moment. We witness the birth of Moses and his fragile survival on the Nile. We endure the plagues, taste liberation from…

At a press conference last week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made a comment about U.S. military support, or lack thereof, for Israel’s war effort against Hamas under the Biden administration.  The withholding of weaponry costs IDF…

Each February, Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM) is a powerful reminder of our collective obligation to honor the full diversity of the Jewish people. But for me — and for countless disabled Jews — JDAIM isn’t a…

Words matter. They are the vessels that carry moral meaning across generations. When they are stretched beyond recognition, they do not become more powerful; they become useless.

That is why the recent spectacle surrounding Immigration and…

Comparing Israel and Somaliland is a fascinating exercise in geopolitics. While they exist in quite different geographic and cultural spheres, they share a striking number of “underdog” characteristics, particularly regarding their…

Zohran Mamdani officially has picked his antisemitism czar — and he’s chosen the leader of a progressive Jewish group that, unlike him, supports Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.

Phylisa Wisdom, who has led…

For forty years the Israelites

had peace, and only minor fights

with foes, although most other nations

much disapproved, and lost their patience

in councils of security,

deploring the impurity

of Hebrews who abuse their trust

by winning wars…

In the Talmud (Shabbat 129a), when firewood was nowhere to be found, students once smashed and burned precious furniture to provide warmth for their dangerously ill teachers.

When critics challenged: “Didn’t you violate Bal…

Mohammed bin Issa Al Jaber did not emerge from Iraq wealthier. He emerged with his thesis intact.

In the crowded arena of Middle Eastern power politics, where ideology is often a veneer for commercial ambition, Sheikh Mohammed bin Issa Al…

“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,”

– Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray (1751)

I know madness; I know it intimately.

I spent a half-century confronting it in my office, as well as at Bellevue, and other…