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Jacob is not an easy biblical character to like.

He is a deceiver, a thief, a manipulator — a man who schemes his way into birthright and blessing, leaving behind anger, rupture, and exile. Traditional readings tend to judge him harshly at…

The splitting of the sea is symbolic of any final release from exile. Be it on a large global scale or the tiniest issue one deals with in their life, when the enemy is drowned and the problem is washed away, the release of that claw is the…

The Middle East is entering a period in which long‑standing assumptions about alignment, deterrence, and regional order no longer hold. The emerging tension between the Israel–UAE axis and the loose Saudi–Turkey–Pakistan security…

Tony Burke Cancels Israeli Speaker’s Visa But Turns a Blind Eye to Radical Preachers

Within days of apologising to the Jewish community, an apology widely dismissed as empty words in the wake of the Bondi Hanukkah terrorist attack,…

This week, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama began his official visit to Israel, and later today he is set to address the Knesset, an appearance that carries both historic and symbolic weight. The leader of a predominantly Muslim country…

Overwhelmed or underwhelmed

When our brains get overstimulated or understimulated, we feel bored. Boredom seems more painful than the heaviest fear. People do anything to escape the feeling. Nature also helps us.

Asleep

After a good (amount…

There are three days of Holocaust remembrance on the Jewish and international calendars.

That seems like a lot.

Except, we need them all.

Why? Because we live in a moment of moral danger. Antisemitism surges with a demonic intensity….

On the evening of November 7, 2024, following a soccer match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, Amsterdam experienced a wave of antisemitic violence that Jewish organizations and public officials later described as unprecedented in postwar…

Songs of ABA: On Contingency and Choice

By Rabbi Moshe ben-Israel

Epigraph

The Torah is not among the sciences.

It stands above them.

The sciences do not stand above it.

They stand beneath it.

Introduction

On Order, Source, and Song

The world…

Two consecutive days, unfolding right now, have reminded me just how fragile the moment we are living in truly is.

January 26 marks Australia Day. The date commemorates the arrival of the “First Fleet” at Port Jackson in 1788—an event…