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I recently ate a small family-owned and very special restaurant in the Baka area of Jerusalem. It stands out in its creativity and had the vibe both in the kinds of food one would think would be destination Michelin-style restaurants, while…

What is so special about Chanukah? Why has it become such a central holiday to our national culture? It’s not the latkes or doughnuts. On Chanukah we celebrate the time that we, Am Yisrael, chose Hashem en masse. It was the harder choice by…

In this episode, kisses and rejections, drashes and derisions at Isaac Luria’s seder.

The Eternal Jew’s Tale
A Pesakh Montage, The Crystal Haggadah
Midrashbase

Lurianic Seder Midrashim, Tsfat, 1570 CE

Now here presented is a summary of the…

Better late than never.

This aphorism applies to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

As he now admits, just a few days after two Muslim terrorists killed 15 people at a Chanukah celebration at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, his…

These polls should be printed in the comics section

In all the years I’ve been in Israel, I never read anyone who trashed the polls here like I have already done more than a dozen times. Am I mistaken? Is anyone paying attention? Does…

Some individuals have indicated that it is poor timing to advocate against the death penalty in the wake of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre. L’chaim members feel otherwise. On the contrary, there is no more appropriate time than now to…

A year after the fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, has Syria truly become a thriving utopia of peace, prosperity, freedom of expression, and tolerance under a one-hundred-percent Islamic democratic rule? This is the question…

Alleged Threats Against Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi: Separatist Factions, Failed Plots, and the Fight for Iran’s Unity

Recent reports, based on information provided by activists inside Iran who requested their reporting be published, have…

Pictures. Collective. Personal. One image superimposed on another. Tears. One over another. Receding into other pictures.

Bondi Beach, Sydney – a massacre with the lighting of the first candle of Chanuka. The news flash interrupts a radio…

Last week, the New York Times ran a lengthy op-ed by Ben Rhodes titled “This Is the Story of How the Democrats View It on Gaza.” Rhodes is no random pundit. He was Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser for “strategic…