My father and I were deep into our math study session. My younger siblings were long asleep, and I kept shifting my legs on the kitchen chair. The contents of my Hello Kitty pencil case were spread out, and my father’s glass of tea rattled…
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Numbers Don’t Make Sense
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Are the Laws of Physics Eternal Truths or Evolving Rules in a Changing Cosmos?
There is something reassuring about the way physics is usually presented. The laws of nature arrive as eternal pronouncements, etched into the very fabric of the universe. Newton’s laws, Maxwell’s equations, Einstein’s field…
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Embracing the Bride: The Sacred Union of Grafting into Israel
The imagery of grafting, a branch tenderly joined to the sturdy rootstock of an olive tree, offers a profound metaphor for spiritual union. It echoes the ancient text of Romans 11:17-24, where the cultivated olive tree of Israel welcomes new…
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Elbit Systems reports $25b orders backlog
The third quarter figure does not include the major contract announced yesterday. Earnings per share handily beat analysts’ estimates.
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Emperor Julian and the Western Wall
I first set foot in Jerusalem in 1971. I was an agricultural volunteer on a kibbutz and with my modest pay, took a bus to Jerusalem, stayed in a youth hostel, and toured the new city and the old city, mostly on foot. I walked…
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Truth Needs Receipts, Not Hallucinations: Inside the Emet Protocol
In the Israel information war, speed is free. Truth still costs something. Truth Flows Faster Than Ever — And So Does Misinformation The battlefield of public perception has changed. Narratives spread before evidence. Claims outrun…
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World Jewry’s voice was heard at the Zionist Congress
The recent World Zionist Congress was indeed a raucous one, marked by at times fierce debates and difficult political machinations. When all was said and done, however, the outcome was clear: when the Jewish world in Israel and the Diaspora comes…
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Do Not Disturb This Fragile Peace: Zionism is not a movement of destruction
By Rabbi Reuven Kahane author of upcoming novel, Amerikan Holocaust and Dr. Shmuel Legesse Upcoming author of Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World: Inspired by the Vision of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Israel has just emerged from one of the most painful…
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Belonging After Exile
Belonging After Exile – What it means to return when your exile has more than one name. Today, on the last day of my trip to Washington, I walked through the Museum of the Bible — a building that feels like a spiritual archive of exile….
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Everyone Expects a Spanish Inquisition
Late last night, Yariv Levin, Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, Orit Strock and five other ministers who held government ministries on October 7, 2023 tasked themselves with establishing a government panel of inquiry into the atrocities Hamas…
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