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If you live or work near an airport, you’ve probably noticed that airplane engines don’t always sound the same. Sometimes their roar shakes the windows and vibrates in your chest, and other times it blends into the background of city…

For many past generations Jewish peoplehood meant something very clear. It meant a shared history, a shared destiny, and a bond that stretched across the world. Whether a Jewish person lived in Israel, the US or anywhere else, they felt they…

How Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch Anticipated Jung and Quantum Physics: The Hidden Unity Behind Everything.

Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritch (circa 1700–1772), the Maggid of Mezritch, once shared a Torah teaching beginning with V’shavta ad Havayeh…

The Sabbath of (Re)Turning Within

This Shabbat is called “Shabbat Shuva” named after the prophetic reading in which the prophet Hosea calls on the Israelites to “return to God” (Hosea 14:2). If the way of God might be defined as…

In honor of the 15th Yuhrzeit of my mother

How do you explain the importance of Rosh ha Shana and Yom Kippur to a young child?

Leave it to my late mother, she always found a way.

“You know what Hashem is doing right now?”
She would ask…

Pakistan has long flirted with Islamist rhetoric, but under Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir its posture has hardened into open hostility toward Israel. Islamabad today is not merely pro-Palestinian — it is pro-Hamas. Its parliament passes…

Donald Trump returned to the United Nations General Assembly stage this week with trademark bravado. He mocked the U.N. as a place of “empty words,” urged nations to slam their borders shut, and presented his worldview as if it were the…

We stand today at a precipice, not merely of a conflict, but of a historical moment that will define the next century. We have been tested by fire, by treachery, and by the cold indifference of a world often quick to judge but slow to…

When Yom Kippur asks us to forgive others, what about forgiving ourselves? Why is that the more painful act?

Can I forgive myself for being a tender person in a very, cruel, cold world? Can I forgive myself for carrying shame for being…

The Ganges River, a lifeline for 600 million people in India and neighboring countries is experiencing its worst drying period in 1,300 years. Using a combination of historical data, paleoclimate records and hydrological models, researchers…