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In this week’s Parsha, the Chasam Sofer points out an interesting shift in the language:

כי אני הכבדתי את לבו וגו’ למען שיתי אותותי אלה בקרבו וגו’ ולמען תספר וגו’ ולקמן…

Dear Israel, if you really feel you must enter into a relationship with Donald Trump, please go with your eyes wide open and maintain your dignity.  And accept these suggestions.

Putting Trump on a pedestal is no way to build a healthy…

I came to Judaism through the Zohar—through Kabbalah, mysticism, and metaphysics. I came through symbols, emanations, hidden worlds, and layered cosmologies. In other words, I came through a channel that often rejects embodiment.

This is not…

Sometimes one has to undergo a catharsis – a moment of emotional release and intellectual reckoning – to purge illusions, confront uncomfortable truths, and make sense of collective disappointment.

As the title suggests, my catharsis will…

A source close to President Emmanuel Macron told Le Monde that France is unlikely to join the proposed Board of Peace at this stage, citing concerns that the initiative’s anticipated scope far exceeds the limited, Gaza-specific framework…

I respectfully urge the Government of Japan to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state within its 1960 borders.

The Republic of Somaliland is in the Horn of Africa, along the southern coast of the…

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, one passage from I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (The day before he was assainated) deserves renewed attention—not the soaring rhetoric, but the constitutional clarity.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was…

When I was asked to step into the role of president of Hadassah Long Beach / Orange County, my first response was not certainty. It was reflection.

Taking on leadership in Hadassah is often most about…

One day in Hebrew School, when I was eight, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, was the topic – what it meant and how it impacted each and every one of us. I was so excited to find out that we, the Jewish people, had two New Year’s…