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The Children of Israel offered a lesson in proper behavior, 3,300 years ago, to today’s President of the United States.

The Torah portion of Bo, which will be read in synagogue next Shabbat, describes the reluctance of the freed slaves, who…

Vaerá 2026 — The era of the hardened heart

We do not live in a time of ignorance.
We live in a time of hardening.
That is the brutal turn that defines our age.

For centuries the human being could excuse himself by saying: “I didn’t…

The Trump administration’s newly unveiled “Board of Peace” for postwar Gaza was meant to signal resolve and vision. Instead, it has laid bare a widening rift with Israel — and, more troublingly, a fundamental contradiction within the…

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What Difference Does It Make as Long as You Get There?

Our Gemara on Amud Beis discusses the parallels of the sacrificial rituals of an animal versus a mincha. For example, the handful of flour that is taken from the mincha for the altar…

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….

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,…

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…