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This Week, as Pharaoh Reappears, It’s Worth Naming Trump’s Pathology

This week’s Torah reading reintroduces Pharaoh—not as a cartoon villain, but as a ruler who has become trapped inside his own compulsions. That framing, powerfully…

Remarks by Steven Goldstein for Shabbat services at United Synagogue of Hoboken in New Jersey, Friday, January 23, 2026:

Shabbat shalom.

If someone other than your extraordinary rabbi, Rob Scheinberg, asked me to speak tonight, I’d have said…

PARASHAH BO — Freedom born in darkness

History doesn’t always move forward in light. Sometimes it moves in the dark — the kind of dark where you feel stupid even hoping. Bo lives there. That second before dawn when the night gets so…

“And when your child will ask tomorrow, saying, ‘What is this?’ you shall tell him: with a strong hand did the Lord bring us out of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

And every firstborn of My children I shall redeem.” (Shemot…

Ancient Greek tragedy repeated a specific kind of collapse: not the absence of information, but the misuse of it. The hero hears the warning and still walks forward, because he treats knowledge as something to confirm his course rather than…

When a “neutral” agency starts acting like a terror accessory,
don’t be shocked when neutrality loses its office space.

The Outrage Arrives Before the Facts

The bulldozers hadn’t even cooled before the outrage achieved full operating…

Eight months ago, on May 22, 2025 I received the initial notification from the Ministry of Transportation that my drivers’ license would expire on November 18^th and it was time to initiate the renewal process.  I finally received it in the…

Why Olim, Women, and the Working Poor Are Judged Instead of Supported

By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS

Walk through the streets of Israel’s major cities and the impression is unmistakable: prosperity. Cafés are full at all hours. Designer…

In recent days, senior Eastern Christian leaders in Israel and Jerusalem released a public statement sharply criticizing Christian Zionism. The language was forceful, and the reaction beyond the region was swift. Among Western Christians who…