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When oil prices spike, collective economic memory plays tricks on us. As crude surged past $100 per barrel amid escalating tensions with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, familiar warnings quickly resurfaced: the 1970s are back,…

What if the most powerful tool for your healing wasn’t found in a pharmacy, but within the vast landscape of your own mind?

As a mind-body therapist and Logotherapist (from the teachings of Dr Viktor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for…

The summer Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 presented West Germany with a golden opportunity to welcome visitors to the “new” Germany. A quarter of a century after the fall of Adolf Hitler’s genocidal Nazi regime, which persecuted and…

There are moments when sport collides so completely with politics and morality that pretending otherwise becomes untenable. FIFA, for decades, has insisted on its neutrality – a governing body above geopolitics, guided only by the…

Passover preparations have begun everywhere. Every family has its own traditions — the recipes passed down without written measurements, the songs sung slightly off-key but with great conviction, and the family games (Jeopardy!) that have…

Larry Olschwanger is in a reflective mood. The current chair of the Israel Bonds National Campaign Advisory Council, Olschwanger’s three-year term has spanned what has arguably been the most tumultuous – and harrowing – phase in…

Why the world must take the threat to undersea cables seriously

In moments of tension in the Gulf, the world’s instinct is to watch oil. Tanker routes, prices, and supply disruptions dominate headlines. This focus is understandable; for…

Betrayal with Excellent Manners

There is a specific kind of Jewish failure that war exposes very quickly.

It is not the primitive failure of blind loyalty: loud, defensive, allergic to self-criticism. That one is easy to recognize. The more…

Parashiyot Vayikra and Tzav present a detailed catalogue of nearly all the sacrifices that are not tied to the calendar. A significant number of these offerings function as atonement for various infractions and sins. In Parashat Tzav, after…