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I often post messages and photos on Facebook and other social media from my time in Tel Aviv and elsewhere in Israel—moments shared with my wife, family, and friends. Sometimes I reuse the same simple caption: “It’s another beautiful…

Vice President JD Vance made a statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day that failed to mention either Jews or Nazis, igniting further Jewish criticism of the vice president from both sides of the aisle.

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About 8,000 years ago, a culture arose in Mesopotamia that would hunt, gather, farm, keep animals and produce extraordinary pottery. The time was one of transition from the Late Neolithic to the Early Chalcolithic, and the decorations painted on…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleged in comments on Tuesday that Israeli soldiers died during the war in Gaza because of a Biden-era “embargo” on weaponry.

“We paid a very heavy price in the war,”…

As adolescents in Chicago’s Jewish high school in the 1950s we were taught the Constitution. I along with some classmates were overwhelmed by its moral force and lucidity. I asked my Talmud teacher, a Holocaust survivor, who knew that…

Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

Said Ruth to Naomi, her Judean mother-in-law. The biblical Book of Ruth tells the story of  Ruth, who converted and joined the Jewish people

These words describe unconditional loyalty and…

Of all the things we cannot control, one stands unmistakably beyond our reach: the weather. When half of the United States is snowed in, and here in Israel winter shows its own fierce face, we are reminded that part of being human is…

How African Medical Knowledge Preceded and Surpassed Europe’s for Centuries

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History is often taught as if progress follows a single European path—moving from classical antiquity through the Renaissance and into…

Remembering with love our six million Jewish brothers and sisters so cruelly murdered during the Holocaust. May their memory eternally be a blessing.

There is growing debate about the purpose and effectiveness of Holocaust Education. Decades…

A World Where Contradiction Has No Price

Notes on the New Threshold Politics

The problem is no longer “lying.” The problem is that the price of contradiction is being abolished. A lie still needs truth the way a parasite needs a host: it…