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On Language, Limit, and Responsibility

Before artificial intelligence crossed technical thresholds we still cannot name with precision, language was already running ahead of experience.

This text was written before the engine—not in the…

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said negotiations with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) over forming the Kurdistan Region’s tenth cabinet remain inconclusive, insisting that no administration can be established without PUK…

There’s some interesting statements in the midrash regarding Yosef being blessed by Yaakov in this week’s parsha.

בֵּן פֹּרָת יוֹסֵף בֵּן פֹּרָת עֲלֵי־עָיִן בָּנוֹת צָעֲדָה…

Back in April of 2025 The University of Birmingham elected student Antonia Listrat to be the next head of the Guild of Students. She was democratically elected by the students to represent them to the University. Students who attend the…

Over the weekend, Israel made history, becoming the first country in the world to re-recognize Somaliland as an independent state. 

Unexpectedly, this decision was met with criticism by Somalia’s Middle Eastern Partners. However, rejecting…

“The world was unformed and chaotic, there was darkness across the surface of the deep. . . And on that day, all the fountains of the great deep burst apart, and the floodgates of the sky broke open. . .” (Genesis 1:2 and 7:11)

This past…

We are living in an age that demands false choices from Jews.

Choose Israel or the Diaspora.
Choose power or conscience.
Choose belonging or responsibility to the world.

Judaism has never spoken this language. Ours is the grammar of and.

We are…

The Islamic Republic occupying Iran is collapsing. The rial has plummeted, wiping out savings. Families struggle for food and medicine. The regime responds with terror: Christians, dissidents, and anti-regime activists are arrested en masse….

One of the quiet dangers of living through repeated waves of terror is how quickly yesterday’s victims fade from public memory. Headlines move on. News cycles reset. Even sincere mourning gives way to the next crisis.

Over the past week,…

Israel’s formal recognition of Somaliland ought not to be filed away as a diplomatic oddity — a little curio for the aficionados of flags, maps, and the peculiar theatre of international paperwork. Nor is it some whimsical detour from the…