Kol Nidre. Recitation of the Haggadah. Shaking out hopes, harvest, and the lingering reflections of repentance with the lulav and etrog. There are certain moments in the year in which we embody a wish or tradition that holds time itself together….
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Can you get anything you want this Thanksgiving?
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How a Fake Nation Became a Global Obsession
The Lie That Became a Truth and Why Millions Believe It As a lifelong lover of Israel, a reader of history, and someone who has actually lived in the Middle East, I am always shocked, though no longer surprised, by how confidently people repeat…
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‘Inconceivable!’ Vayetze 5786
The human mind is a sort of laboratory, where cognition, perception, and meaning collide in ways that feel almost miraculous. Hassidism has long insisted that the architecture of the soul mirrors the structure of the cosmos, that the way we think…
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Divine Deeds: How People Claimed Land in God’s Name
Faith, Land, and the Meaning of Thanksgiving Every Thanksgiving, Americans rehearse a national memory of hospitality, peace, and shared abundance. Yet beneath our celebration lies a deeper, more unsettling theological question: Who has the right…
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Where Do We Go for Calm Within from Here?
Where do we go for calm within from here? To a place of stillness within ourselves. Enter the ineffable within breath, Given at birth by the Divine for life. No word, no noise, no distraction, We then find ourselves, when we lose ourselves,…
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Mamdani: A left-wing socialist — who is religious
Left-wing woke and socialism are ideologies which are generally considered secular. Which is why Mamdani seems to be such an anomaly. With strong Muslim beliefs, he believes in G-d — and, at the same time, he has socialist and left-wing…
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Why Is This Journey So Hard?
Near my home, along the path overlooking the Old City, lies a monument to the Zabib family—Jews from Yemen who walked on foot to the Land of Israel. They are part of the 850,000 Jews who were forced to leave the Arab countries, a story…
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Origins of Anti Semitism
The Torah tells us that Eisav was filled with rage, when he learned that he was outsmarted by Yakov, and the blessing was taken from him. The exact wording was וישטם עשו את יעקב. This was equivalent to saying that Eisav despised…
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Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, and the Future of the Hamas-Israel Conflict
The intense two years of fighting between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) came to a halt with a ceasefire brokered by President Trump on October 9, signed by Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey. The implications of these three signatories have not…
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Oct 7, and the Church that Forgot Its Own Story
October 7 did not just expose hatred. It exposed the church’s memory, and it revealed who no longer recognizes the story that formed them. The shock of October 7 did not only shake geopolitics, it cracked something open inside the global…
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