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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…

In the digital age, the reach of a microphone can extend further than the acoustics of any cathedral. But for a public figure who professes a Catholic identity—often with a crucifix positioned prominently in her studio—Candace Owens has…

The dissonance between campus protests against Israel and the academic silence surrounding the killing of protesters in Iran exposes a sharp—and painful—paradox: the growing aversion of significant segments of Western academia to Western…

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland closed a long-running diplomatic debate but opened a more consequential question: what follows recognition in a region where power rarely waits for process? In the Horn of Africa, political decisions not…

In the world of language education, we talk endlessly about cultural competence, building bridges, and social justice. These beautiful concepts fill our mission statements and professional guidelines, yet since the events of October 7th, a…

Today, under the open sky at the funeral of Josh Boone z”l, I stood among those who came to honor a man who gave so much of himself to Israel. Josh was not born here. He came from the quiet, wide-open landscapes of…

There Are None So Blind as Those Who Do Not Wish to See — A Message from Parshat Bo

It is a hard truth, but one that is often ignored: there is something people do not want to see or speak about.

A blindness is spreading through the…