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War, Peace, and Life in Three Faiths

If you look at Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the three traditions most often pulled into debate, you find something striking. At their core, all three begin from the same uncomfortable truth. The world…

I have spent much of my career studying what happens when governments overleverage — when leaders borrow against institutional credibility, judicial tolerance, and public patience simultaneously, assuming the bill will never come due. I…

One of the most important problems confronting American civilization currently—one not getting the attention it should locally, nationally, and internationally—is nitrogen hypoxia.

Nitrogen hypoxia is an abominable method of execution…

It has become increasingly difficult to make sense of the current war in the Middle East and predict where events are heading. Beyond the debate over who is right or wrong, there are deeper questions about whether the conflict was inevitable,…

Professor Ioan Myrddin (I. M.) Lewis (1930–2014) was one of the most influential social anthropologists of the twentieth century and is widely regarded as the leading authority on Somali society. Over a career spanning more than five…

I had been watching the white, curved building rise on Meridian Avenue, waiting for the day it would finally open.

When it did, I found myself standing at a podium in Theater II, microphone in hand, speaking to 101-year-old Jack Waksal. On…

Every year, Hadassah chapters around the country hold a “Hadassah Shabbat.” Traditionally, it is held on Shabbat Zachor (the Sabbath of Remembrance) because it was around that time that Hadassah was founded in 1912 by Henrietta…

In June of 2024 during Pride Month, I was invited to Washington, D.C., as a Hadassah representative to a reception at Adas Israel Congregation, co-hosted by Michael Herzog, Israel’s Ambassador to the US, along with A Wider Bridge an…

And then that time comes.
The moment I’ve been quietly pushing to the back of my mind since the day my son was born.

“By then we won’t need an army- we’ll have peace.”

Hopeful thinking. Optimistic thinking. Peaceful thinking.
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In the leadup to Passover this will be a wide ranging column of my musings in the hope of reassuring some of you and your children when they see the new deployments of Toronto Police riot police bearing rifles and ‘counterterrorism’ units…