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Puerto Ricans can yield a constitutionally eligible president of the United States, yet they still cannot vote for one. That is not a quirk. It is not an oversight. It is the clearest proof that Puerto Rico’s current status is a fraud…

Resilience Under Fire — What Parshat Tzav Teaches About Responsibility in an Unresolved World

We are living through a time of ceasefires—moments where the noise fades, the headlines shift, and the world moves on.

But what happens when the…

They can threaten the world’s economy by blocking oil tankers. But their leadership and military have been smashed.

Even as the US engages in talks, more US soldiers are being brought to the region.

Israel and the US continue to bomb. Arab…

The opening chapters of the Book of Vayikra map out the world of sacrifices offered on the altar. Sacrifices are not one-dimensional. Some sacrifices respond to failure and repair. Others express gratitude. Others are brought simply because a…

This Shabbat is the Greatest Shabbat or Shabbat HaGadol. Why? Nobody really knows. Much ink has flowed in the attempt to answer that question. I’ll use up some bytes in that same cause.

The starting point for most scholars who look into the…

As we know, Israel has always occupied a central place in our Jewish community’s existence.

Today, a growing number of our Jewish day schools and yeshivot promote, support and teach about Israel as an integral…

Lithuania’s favorite defense is chronological. The Germans came. The occupation began. The machinery of extermination followed. Therefore, whatever happened to the Jews in Lithuania, belongs to Germany. That defense collapses before the…

In this week’s parsha, we finish listing all of the sacrifices that could be brought in the Mishkan. The final offering is called shelamim, and can be brought for a number of reasons:

וְזֹאת תּוֹרַת זֶבַח…

In ancient times, when two opposing forces go to war, one would lose and the other would win. Why? Because physical weapons were the only means available. Not so is the case in the modern era where defeat in a battle does not automatically…

This essay argues that India’s analytical under-engagement with the ideological dimensions of Iranian statecraft is not a policy failure but a theoretical one: a structural consequence of what I term the “postcolonial materialism trap”:…