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A signing ceremony took place last month on the loading docks of northwestern Libya that was framed by the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) as a milestone in the nation’s economic recovery. Surrounded by senior officials…

ECHOES OF SEPHARAD

Hidden in a Bookbinding:
The Faro Talmud and the Afterlife of a Lost Portuguese Printing

In 1908, conservators in Leiden peeled back the binding of a 1557 Italian Hebrew book and unexpectedly exposed fragments of a forgotten…

Picture this: a nation reborn from the ashes of history, now launching its gaze to the stars. As NASA prepares for Artemis II this month, a historic orbit around the Moon, Israelis have every reason to look up in awe. From humble beginnings…

While attending last week’s annual conference against antisemitism, I was brought to attention by a recurring argument that surfaced across panels and discussions. Articulated in different ways, it challenged the instinct to confront…

*Tu Bishvat and the Tree That Sweetened the Waters*

In last week’s parsha, Parshas Beshalach, we read about the moment in Yetzias Mitzrayim when the pressure reached its height and Krias Yam Suf took place. Bnei Yisrael were trapped,…

The modern history of statehood is often defined by the tension between the sanctity of existing borders and the moral weight of self-determination. Within this geopolitical theater, the Republic of Somaliland and the Republic of Lithuania…

The Jewish Alibi Market in American Politics

In Times of Israel you can’t write from “nowhere.” So I’m writing from the only place that is honest: my own name. The topic is not “the community as One,” but the way Jewish signs are…

One evening last April, an arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion, not long after Governor Josh Shapiro and his family finished their seder celebrating the first night of Passover. The seder is one of the most common ways…

After massacre, there is a powerful temptation in every society: to seal itself morally as well as militarily.

Not to hear nuance.
Not to hear critique.
Not to hear complexity.
Not to hear pain outside your own.

That instinct is understandable….

On Friday, January 30, I went to the all-day “Independent Journalism Conference: The Struggle for Truth in the Age of Social Media” held at Beit Ariella, the main Tel Aviv municipal library. I thought I would just stay for a while, but in…