Navigating Deception and Favoritism: Mediation Lessons from Parshah Toldot The weekly Torah portion Toldot is one of the most instructive texts for conflict-resolution practitioners. It is filled with interpersonal tensions, hidden agendas, and…
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Parshah through the Mediator’s Lens: Toldot
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How Music Brought Me Closer to Israel
In the years leading up to October 7, I became a little bit closer to Judaism. As the conflict intensified, I did more research, trying to find out what exactly was happening in Israel. And the result was my hardening commitment to Judaism. For…
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Jewish group revives religious charter school fight in Oklahoma, months after test case stalled at Supreme Court
Months after a Supreme Court deadlock blocked an attempt by a Catholic church to create the nation’s first openly religious, publicly funded charter school, a Jewish group is now advancing a similar plan — one designed…
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Where Are Israel’s Shepherds to Save Us from the Wolves?
Israel needs leaders who guard the flock of Klal Yisrael, not wolves worried only about their next meal. From the very beginning of our story, the Bible insists on a strange qualification for leadership: shepherding. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob all…
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Israel Must Redefine Its Red Lines with Washington and Riyadh
Peace at the Price of Air Superiority? Israel Must Redefine Its Red Lines with Washington and Riyadh Trump’s trillion-dollar deal with Saudi Arabia revives the debate over F-35 sales to the Kingdom — and forces Israel to decide what it must…
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Beware Those Who Denounce Antisemitism
In 1919, Vladimir Lenin delivered a speech titled “On Anti-Jewish Pogroms,” in which he declared that “antisemitism means spreading enmity towards the Jews.” On the surface, this sounds unequivocally condemnatory. Yet once one reads the…
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Peace Anxiety: Why Israelis Flinch at the Word ‘Peace’
If national neuroses were an olympic sport, Israel would medal every time. Our relationship with peace is like a decades-long situationship: we chase it, panic when it gets close, swear it’ll never work, and then dream about it anyway. But…
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Emigration? It’s Not the Missiles
Israelis are leaving, but not because of missiles or terror. External threats have always been part of our reality, and Israelis have always risen to meet them. What drives this exodus is not war: it is the sense that Israeli society is fraying…
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Hamas is operating in Europe and authorities must take action
The recent law enforcement operation that led to the arrest of Muhammad Naim, a UK resident who is the son of Bassem Naim, a Hamas political bureau leader and spokesman, highlights the danger posed by Hamas on European soil, thus demolishing the…
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Clash of Philosophies
The Alshich described the clash that existed between Eisav and Yakov. It was not merely the clash between a Tzaddik and a Rasha, but it represented two world views. We see from Eisav’s willingness to sell his birthright for a bowl of lentil…
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