Most people treat birthdays as moments of celebration, but spiritually they work better as moments of accounting. A birthday marks the passing of another year, and none of us knows how many remain. This reality calls not for self-spotlighting but…
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A Birthday as a Spiritual Accounting
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How the Feed Shapes Young Christians and Their Views on Israel
As I continue the series on how Christians view Israel, and have dealt with various theological systems such as premillennialism, postmillennialism, amillennialism, covenantal, and dispensational views. I then addressed geography, looking at how…
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The Party’s Over
A call for Democrats to abandon Israel leaves me shaken but not shocked. Ben Rhodes, who served as a deputy national security adviser under President Obama, insists that “it is past time for Democrats to stop supporting this Israeli…
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IDF restructures tech divisions
As part of the lessons learned from the war, the Israel Defense Forces has established AI and Spectrum Divisions.
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Dear Students: We Failed You On Technology
Dear Students, Plato once warned that writing would break the minds of learners. He believed that if people relied on text instead of memory, they would lose something essential. Adults have been repeating his warning for more than two thousand…
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Planting Trees: Why Jewish Identity Is the Key to Our Future
Over the last year, I chaired the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver’s Antisemitism Task Force. Over that period, we heard and reviewed truly distressing accounts of violence and intimidation targeting the Jews of British Columbia. Visibly…
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Syria: The Battlefield Between Intentions and Interests
Syria: The Battlefield Between Intentions and Interests — Who Has Won, and Who Will Rule After the Collapse of the Shiite Axis? The campaign in Syria is no longer merely a struggle over regime change; it is a test of survival for an entire…
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Magen David, our Star, Our Shield
In today’s climate of animosity directed towards the State of Israel and, by inevitable extension, the Jewish people, a simple six-pointed star is often the target of scorn, ridicule and discrimination. In English, the colloquial term for this…
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The Epstein Files: A Test of Conscience for the US, Israel, and Beyond
Embed from Getty Images “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby” was Virginia Slims’ slogan during the Women’s Liberation era, marketed as a symbol of women’s progress. Looking back, calling women “Baby” carried a misogynistic undertone,…
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Inclusion is Not the Problem – It’s the Answer
This week, as we mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we are asked to look honestly at the mirror that Israeli society holds up to us. The vision of embracing every individual, as promoted through inclusion policies in…
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