I still remember the first time I noticed something felt “off” with my payslip. It was a year when I’d changed jobs midway, picked up a small side role to cover rising living costs, and assumed the tax system would somehow balance it…
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The Blogs: Embracing the cycles | Judy Halper
The Times of Israel reported today: “New study shows that female hormones impact the body’s inner clocks.”
First of all – well duh! As the owner of a female body, I can tell you that we don’t need scientific research to explain this…
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The Blogs: For 250 years, US Jews have met prejudice with defiance | Austin Reid Albanese
JTA — In December 1778, as the American Revolution still raged, a Jewish writer in Charlestown opened a newspaper and saw Jews made into wartime scapegoats. An article in the local press claimed that Jews in Georgia had taken “every…
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The Blogs: A Safer Gaza Is Not a Concession — It’s a Strategy | Ed Gaskin
This column is part of a series exploring whether Gaza can be rebuilt in a way that produces lasting stability rather than recurring war. Inspired by Jonathan Feldstein’s provocative question—“Is Jesus the solution for Gaza?”—the…
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The Blogs: Will Trump fire? | Yoseph Janowski
He’s locked and loaded. But is he holding fire?
Reportedly Israel and Arab states told Trump to wait until there is more momentum.
Nobody knows what Trump will do. Meanwhile, Iranians are being massacred.
Is the Iranian regime outfoxing…
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The Blogs: When Ideology Overtakes Education | Steve Winston
A very recent incident at Bristol Brunel Academy has shone a harsh light on a troubling trend in British education. A Jewish Member of Parliament, Damien Egan, was prevented from visiting a secondary school in his own constituency after…
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The Blogs: ‘Each feels their own sorrow the most’ | Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden
This headline is the bottom line of the following story.
Just after returning from the horrors of the Holocaust, my mother met a non-Jewish woman who told her, ‘We too suffered a lot.’ ‘What did you suffer?’ my mother asked in her…
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The Blogs: Nouriel Roubini and AI | David Rosh Pina
Over the years of economic analysis, I learned to admire Nouriel Roubini, or Dr. Doom, as he was called in the early crypto years. He tends to get major economic calls right, not because he predicts short-term market movements, but because,…
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The Blogs: Autistic Barbie: Not Perfect, But I’ll Take It | Judah Koller
In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift toward greater representation of autistic and neurodivergent children in mainstream media. In 2015, Sesame Street introduced Julia, an autistic Muppet, as a way of helping young children…
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The Blogs: The Answer to Antisemitism Is More Semitism | Eliezer Simcha Weiss
Antisemitism is not about what Jews do. It is about who Jews are.
The classical definition describes antisemitism as “the dislike of the unlike.” It is hatred of difference itself. The Jew represents something different: a people who live…Continue Reading