In a post that has been circulating online, the author explains the concept of pedigree collapse – the idea that, although the math suggests each generation doubles our number of ancestors, human communities historically overlapped so much that…
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The Names History Forgot: Why I Won’t Let My Ancestors Die a Third Time
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The new face of Jewish philanthropy demands accountability and purpose
How much would you pay to save a Jewish life? What about hundreds—or thousands—of lives? When most people think about supporting higher-education institutions, they picture classrooms, textbooks, and graduation ceremonies. Yet in Israel,…
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Trump’s Power Brokers Behind the Curtains
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were never supposed to be the central axis of Trump’s second-term foreign policy. Yet here they are — two unelected power brokers who have managed, once again, to dominate some of the world’s most volatile…
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Finding Light: Hanukkah Reflections
Last Hanukkah, as I lit the menorah in my New York apartment, I felt a flicker of both warmth and grief. The soft glow of the candles reflected against the window, and for a moment, the world outside felt still. But behind that quiet was…
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Where did Yehuda go?
After Yosef was sold, we read about Yehuda going down from Dotan to Adullam (Breisheet 38:1): It was at that time that Yehuda went down from his brothers and camped near an Adullamite named Hira. Rashi comments that this narrative is placed here…
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I Finally Made It to Israel and It was a Life-changing Adventure
This is the second column of a three-part series about the author’s recent trip to Israel. I want to begin by happily saying, ”I made it to Israel for the Evolve Hadassah Paced to Please trip! Unfortunately, due to flight cancelations, I…
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Queueing for Auschwitz
On the first morning of a seminar at the Auschwitz Memorial, I stepped out of the guesthouse to get breakfast and found myself staring at something my mind simply refused to process: a queue. Not a small line, not a manageable cluster of early…
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I Beg My Pardon
For many years, when allegations against Netanyahu surfaced for ill-judged behaviour, corrupt conduct and bribery, Netanyahu repeated the mantra: There was nothing. There is nothing. There will be nothing. Netanyahu stopped repeating the mantra…
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Israel’s Liver Cancer Fight Gets More Urgent
As CEO of an Israeli biotech startup focused on liver cancer treatment, I’ve spent years studying the global landscape of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) — the most common form of liver cancer and one of the world’s deadliest malignancies….
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The many faces of Israel
The feelings about Israel range from seething hatred to absolute devotion, and they include many other feelings in between. There are probably not many entities on the planet that inspire such a complex and extreme range of emotions, and it’s…
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