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Narratives, Media, and the Information Architecture of the Conflict

How Information Shapes Imagination, Fear, and the Possibility of Equality

Series Preface

Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel examines how law, belonging,…

Iran has crossed a line that should not even exist. The regime now charges families to retrieve the bodies of protesters it murdered—billing them for the bullets used to kill their sons and daughters. Death by receipt. Grief by invoice….

The biggest mistake Pharoah made in the entire story of the exodus from Egypt, was the question that he would deeply regret.

He arrogantly asked, “Who is Hashem that I should listen to Him and let this people go?” When someone asks such a…

From Sydney to San Francisco, London to Lagos, a generation is discovering that the dream of homeownership has become precisely that—a dream. Housing costs have decoupled from incomes so dramatically that even dual-professional households…

Sexual Violence isn’t selective, so why should belief be?

Sexual violence is not an apolitical issue or an issue that can be isolated. It’s probably the oldest crime, a weapon of war. A crime rooted as a tool of control and power, it also…

Trump’s Gaza Peace Council: Vanity Over Security

Donald Trump wants the world to believe he is building peace in Gaza. He wants headlines that frame him as a historic dealmaker, a global statesman, perhaps even a future Nobel Peace Prize…

In the wake of October 7, 2023, the Jewish world finds itself caught in a global “mishearing” of staggering proportions. Across the streets of world capitals, narratives of “occupation” and “resistance” are weaponized to drown out…

In this episode tempers rise at Kibbutz Teruah’s seder.

The Eternal Jew’s Tale
A Pesakh Montage, The Crystal Haggadah
Midrashbase

Kibbutz Teruah Midrashim, the Eretz, 1950 CE, Part 2

Aton keeps trying to interrupt but many ‘shush’s’…

Although this week we read Parsha Vayera,

I would like to share a thought connected to Vayechi.

Because Vayechi is not a parsha about a week —

it is a parsha about the time in which we are living.

Now, according to the Jewish calendar, it…

When people talk about Red Dead Redemption, they usually reach for familiar language: tragedy, redemption, the cost of violence, the end of the West. All of that is true—but incomplete. What makes John Marston endure is not that his story…