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The Alshich discusses three primary reasons why people turn away from Hashem and religious observance.

The first reason is that people rely too much on the superiority of their own intellect. They believe that they have the capacity to make…

I am not the political voice of my congregation. I am a spiritual voice. My calling is not to tell people how to vote, but to remind them that our prayers provide inspiration and meaning and that they tie us to a shared legacy and destiny. I…

These headlines have been bothering me for days. Reading them over and over again isn’t something I want to do, but I feel like I owe it to the people whose names are now part of these stories. There have been many stories in the news about…

After the Ceasefire: Israel on a Knife-Edge

The ceasefire in Gaza is overhyped if you think it marks the end of conflict. It does not. What Israel faces now is not peace—it’s a fragile pause, a brief lull in a storm that shows no mercy….

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Modern geopolitics is defined less by steady evolution than by sudden rupture. States that appear stable disintegrate overnight; alliances collapse after decades of endurance; markets, empires, and ideologies alike fracture in…

It is a litmus test for Egypt’s financial governance and a signal to the region and beyond.

A regulatory storm brewing in Cairo is reverberating far beyond Egypt’s borders — unsettling financial corridors from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai and…

On the first anniversary the pogrom of Amsterdam, one can only look back in dismay. Some can hardly believe that Western civilisations, with the Netherlands in particular, can have had such a collective breakdown in sanity. What is perhaps…

A rabbinic midrash on love, memory, and the breath of all living beings

by Rabbi Mikhail Salita

I first wrote this story many years ago—perhaps fifteen or twenty.

At that time, I wasn’t yet a rabbi. I was simply remembering my childhood…