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“וַיִּזְכֹּר אֱלֹהִים אֶת־נֹחַ” — “And God remembered Noah.”
Ons leef in die tyd van verskeur (We live in the time of tornness)
Men obsik yufik vol püki! — (Volapük: “Man again speaks many…

We live in a time of profound disconnection. But the way we care for the dead, and thereby each other, can teach us how to live with greater connection and compassion.

We don’t usually think of social change starting in the taharah room….

Last week, the police and the government had a chance to prove that promises on tackling antisemitism in the UK were not simply hollow words. It should come as no surprise that they failed. Based upon a decision from the city of…

October 23, 2025

I know that the war has just ended – less than a couple of weeks ago. I am aware that what I am writing here is coming before its time. It is clear that both Israelis and Palestinians have been deeply affected by trauma,…

Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) was a state sponsored terrorist action against Jewish people, businesses, homes, and synagogues, a pogrom planned and executed by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany, 9–10…

The next war won’t begin with rockets. It’ll begin with rhetoric.

Even before a shot is fired, the words are already in formation — settler violence, illegal outposts, West Bank resistance. The phrases are primed for deployment, the…

There is a way to tell the story of history that is not a chronology but a choreography. Time moves like a dancer drawing near, withdrawing, circling, and each age is the loosening of a veil that once kept eyes from meeting the Face. Not a…

Being a physician in 2025 means much more than keeping up with artificial intelligence or precision medicine. It means breaking out of the outdated notion that social media engagement is an act of populism or self-promotion. In reality, it…

We all know the saying, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” attributed to Edmund Burke. But as Dennis Prager points out, this means that for good to prevail, good people must also be…

Islamic traditions relate that before Prophet Muhammad, Allah sent 124,000 prophets to teach monotheism to all human beings. Prophets were sent to the whole of mankind in all different lands and at many different times. (Ibn Hanbal, Musnad,…