A rare video from Iran under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi is circulating online — and it is explosive. The video reveals Iran as it once was — orderly, modern, ambitious — and exposes the lies, fake accounts, and fear that keep today’s…
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The Late Shah of Iran Built a Nation. We Can’t Even Build a Backbone.
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The Quantum, The Jungian, and The Kabbalist. Physics, Psychology, and Mysticism.
The human experience is fundamentally a search for coherence. We navigate a world that often appears chaotic, fragmented, and indifferent. Nonetheless, we possess an innate desire to find a unifying thread connecting our inner world, soul,…
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Aramaic – A Living Semitic Memory
In an age of global mobility and dispersal, the phrase Christians of the East evokes both immediacy and distance. It gestures toward regions where the great monotheistic traditions emerged – Sumer, Assyria, ancient Israel – and toward communities…
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Tripoli for Golan? The New Middle East Power Play
Everyone’s celebrating or panicking over the wrong story. The real shockwave is this: Al-Sharaa is positioning himself to take Tripoli (Lebanon), a move that could shrink Hezbollah’s map and hand Israel a strategic win nobody saw coming. And…
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Sharp Edged Simcha
One of the quirkiest things about the Torah is the uneven flow of time from chapter to chapter. Some parshiyot are chock-full of action, and some feel like in the live-action movie of the Torah those scenes wouldn’t make the theatrical-release…
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Jewish moderate Julie Menin claims victory as next City Council speaker
Julie Menin, a Jewish New York City Councilwoman in Manhattan, declared victory on Wednesday in the race for council speaker, positioning herself as a potential moderating influence on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s…
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The ‘Common Sense’ Ideology
According to the Merriam–Webster Dictionary, common sense is defined as “sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts.” I am 69 years old. Age alone does not guarantee wisdom, but it does provide the…
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Laban: A Tragedy of Loss—Parshat Vayetzei
In a previous blog, I addressed the widespread demonization of Laban, the Aramean often portrayed as a swindler, whose ethnicity in Jewish tradition—arami—was twisted into the label ramai, “cheater.” This week, I want to explore him from…
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Why Thanksgiving Requires Supporting Israel
Thanksgiving has always struck me as America’s most sacred civic ritual—a national moment in which we acknowledge that a people, fleeing persecution, crossed an ocean to claim their right to live freely on the land where they believed God had…
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The Jewish Problem With Donald Trump
The Jewish Problem With Donald Trump What the Talmud asks of us that politics does not There is no serious doubt that Israel has benefitted from Donald Trump’s approach to the region. He moved the US embassy to Jerusalem and formally recognized…
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