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Our Gemara on Amud Beis mentions an oft-quoted rabbinic principle: “The Torah is careful to spare the money of the Jewish people.”

Why is such a principle operative? On a simple level, we…

We were never the sum of what we know.

One of modernity’s deepest illusions was the belief that human beings govern themselves through knowledge, as if political life rested, in the end, on informed judgment, durable memory, and the slow…

Paul Ehrlich passed away this week. He was arguably the most influential ecological thinker of his generation. Paul was a towering human being and intellectual presence, driven by insatiable curiosity, a boundless reservoir of ideas, and an…

At the ADL’s Never Is Now summit, the American Zionist Movement is drawing a line in the sand — and asking every proud Jew to stand behind it.

I sat down with Mark Levenson, President of the American Zionist Movement, and Herbert Block,…

Peter Apps’ bullish call on Operation Epic Fury mistakes a mid-trade snapshot for a final settlement

Reuters’ global defence commentator Peter Apps has declared on The Telegraph’s “Iran: The Latest” podcast that “this has been a…

When Moses arrived in Egypt after sixty years of exile, claiming that the G-d of their ancestors had summoned him to liberate the Hebrews, a remarkable thing happened: the people believed him. This was a nation crushed by centuries of…

Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of pain around a similar theme.

People here in Israel feel like others don’t really understand what life looks like right now. And that lack of understanding can feel isolating.

I’ve also heard the…

This week’s Parsha is Parshat Vayikra. It starts out with וַיִּקְרָ֖א אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֑ה-And He called to Moshe.

Its appearance in a Sefer Torah at the beginning of Vayikra (the “small aleph”) is almost invisible. Do…

In Tehran and across Iran, as the skies over the capital and major cities fill with the sound of explosions and missiles, a significant portion of Iranian society is not only unafraid, but is in fact greeting these attacks with a sense of…

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I’ll start from the end:  This is a real war.  People are getting killed.  People are getting injured.  Businesses are suffering.  Reservists are called up and leaving their families with no school and the…