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The great love of the captive’s parents exists in each one of us 

The Jewish world was moved to the core Erev Yom Tov by the images of the hostages being reunited with their families. Indescribable intense emotions, that really have no…

Moses was raised in a royal household. He spent his life in a series of confrontations – with Pharaoh, with his own people, with God. He comes across as a fearless, savvy, and charismatic leader – a liberator, lawgiver, nation-builder,…

Rarely do I find myself wanting to compare the stories of the Torah to the stories of the idolatrous past, but I recently came across a New Yorker article that was reviewing the tantalizing but often flawed search for a key to all mythology….

As he often does these days, Wesleyan University president Michael Roth recently delivered a lecture on another campus outlining all the reasons why academia should be more forcefully standing up to President Trump’s…

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday said Republicans “roundly condemn” a leaked group chat in which Young Republican officials joked about gas chambers, praised Adolf Hitler and used racist, antisemitic and…

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A strange sensation has taken hold of me over the last few days. It took some time to identify it.

After we finished taking down the sukkah, putting away the serving platters, wiping down the counters and throwing in yet another load of…

Now that all the hostages have been released, it is important to analyze the phenomena that characterized how they were held and treated. Only then can we attempt to understand and evaluate the psychological effects of captivity—both in the…

In Adam’s fall, we sinned all.
In the new Adam’s rise, we shall all reach the skies.
— Henry David Thoreau

The First Fall

Perhaps no story in the Bible is more familiar—or more haunting—than the tale of Adam and Eve.

For many…

On my way home from the Knesset, where President Trump delivered a historic address on the peace agreement he brokered—not just for Israel, but for the entire Middle East and the world—I found myself reflecting on a simple truth: Continue Reading