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Yaakov Avinu’s last words recover a maternal and conservative ethic of guidance, inheritance, and restraint.

Parshas Vayechi is not a loud parsha. It does not announce itself with fire or spectacle. There are no miracles that suspend…

When you see your boyfriend in a blonde wig, wearing your grandmother’s bra stuffed to capacity, you know he’s the one.

A few months earlier, a new guy had moved into my friends’ kosher apartment at law school after his former roommate…

I just finished writing ADIR’s first impact report. For someone whose ADD is both an ace card and, at times, genuinely hard to live with for me and those around me, completing a 26-page document that required synthesizing two years of work…

In his brief time in the House, freshman Jewish Congressman Randy Fine has built a reputation for combative outbursts — particularly about Muslims.

But the Florida Republican ignited a new round of controversy earlier…

Hold the champagne, at least for a moment. As we mark the beginning of a new year, let us also think of all those the world over who are not in a celebratory mood, whose mindset is one of trepidation, anguish and pain rather than joy.

I write…

The current debate in the Israeli Knesset regarding the proposed death penalty bill for convicted terrorists is one of the most consequential human rights discussions before that esteemed legislative body in the twenty-first century. Its…

On Saturday, December 27, the Italian State Police and the Financial Guard arrested seven Palestinians suspected of collecting millions of euros in support of Hamas. The Italian authorities also issued international arrests for two others,…

You know you have something good when the entire cast and crew are in tears during a rehearsal. Not tears of frustration (though there can be plenty of those in a production of any scale!), but emotion pouring out on faces as two cast…