Parashas Vayishlach — Gid HaNasheh and Taking Personal Initiative For the past two years, the Jewish people have been facing danger from every direction. Even now, after a fragile period of calm, the threat has not disappeared. We are still…
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Vayishlach — Gid HaNasheh and Personal Initiative
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Men Who Wrestle and Do Not Let Go
Angels in Heaven, Angels on the Ground Earlier this week in our Tanach study, we came across an oddity in that the word “Malachim” (מלאכים -spelled with an aleph-was translated by all the different translations we could find as…
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UNIFIL: Hezbollah’s UN Spy Network
Let’s be honest: UNIFIL does not monitor Hezbollah—it feeds it. Every Israeli movement, every patrol shift, every camera wired along the northern border is logged by blue helmets and funneled—through the joke they call “local…
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What Is Your Name?
────────────────────────────── Dedicated in loving memory of my Safta, Sara bat Chana, who gave me my name and whose strength and kindness continue to guide me. With thanks to my Aunt…
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Islam And Judaism On Fate Or Free Will In Our Lives
The Qur’an and the Torah agree that human beings are subject to both fate and freedom, but there are some differences in emphasis between Islam and Judaism on the issue. A Pew Research study indicated that 88-93% of Muslims around the world…
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Score Card: The Jewish Institutional Wars and What They Represent
A new power configuration has reshaped the American Jewish communal order. Money, power, and ego have contributed to this new Jewish institutional paradigm. During an earlier period (1967-1985), communal consensus around Israel, American…
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If the US Can Normalize Sharaa in Syria, Is Barghouti Next?
The global letter released this week—signed by Sting, Richard Branson, Benedict Cumberbatch, and more than 200 cultural figures—should not be dismissed as celebrity theatrics. It signals a shift. As the Trump peace architecture enters its…
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When Memory Becomes Action
I had been recording it since she passed away in 2016. “For what?”, I would sometimes ask myself? It was on a google doc, unedited, sloppy, with random facts and memories occasionally thrown in when a strong memory popped into my head. But…
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Jewish Hidden Voices Taught at NYC Public Schools
Untold Jewish Stories in American History, Finally Brought to Light I’ve known Natalia Mehlman professor at The New School and served as Lead Scholar on Hidden Voices: Jewish Americans in United States History. Hidden Voices is a nearly…
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Remember Ahead of the Upcoming Elections: Beware of the ‘Hendels’
According to the chairman of the “Reservists’ Party,” the deputy director of Rambam Hospital—who has treated wounded soldiers for years—is somehow unfit to sit at the decision-making table. Yoaz Hendel brings nothing but a pleasant…
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