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Unfolding before our very eyes is a modern day tragic love story of Shakespearean proportion, our Israeli Romeo and Juliet. In scene 1 act 1, Noa and Avinatan enter the stage as our star-crossed lovers, their lives shattered just moments…

As antisemitism once again rises with alarming intensity across the globe, we must hold fast to a fundamental truth: those who threaten the Jewish people wield power only by the will of the Almighty.

This week’s Torah portion, Vayera,…

The Torah gives us a strange portrait.
 Two sons — born into fire, jealousy, exile, and promise — converge only once in their adult lives: בְּנֵי יִצְחָק וְיִשְׁמָעֵאל קָבְרוּ אֹתוֹ
“And Isaac…

In this episode we ride our cloud-chariots to the Caucasus and then to the Galilee.

The Eternal Jew’s Tale
A Pesakh Montage, The Crystal Haggadah
Mountain Jew and Kabbalistic seders

Mountain Jews Seder, Derbent, ~1300 CE

We, Juhuro, Mountain…

The first courtship and marriage in the Torah is that of Isaac and Rebecca. The negotiations were conducted between Betuel, Rebecca’s father, and Eliezer, Abraham’s trusted servant. Only after the families reached an agreement did the…

Every civilization runs on a hidden source—its deepest fear. What a people dreads most reveals what it worships. Once, the Heritage Foundation symbolized the moral voltage of principled conservatism. But in recent years, when confronted…

What happens when the person you love slowly becomes someone you barely recognize – and sometimes even a “They”? That question haunts me more than anything else about my condition. I think awareness of the issue may offer some help or…

I arrived in Shlomi on October 8, serving with my IDF reserve unit during the early days of the war. The town had been fully evacuated, and its streets, homes, and public spaces stood empty for what ultimately became 18 months. When I later…

Black theology today does not exist in a vacuum. It lives in dialogue—with history, with the wider church, with other religions, and with a fractured society still struggling with race, justice, and belonging. If earlier eras asked whether…

“(…) In the modern world the abstractions created by the human mind like money are more important than any real spectrum of survival, or passing the DNA for the future, or preserving the planet. (…) Maximisation of profit became the…