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Perfection is the enemy of growth.

That is a lesson I never expected to learn so deeply. For many years, I was too busy searching for myself to realize that growth often comes through imperfection.

When we are young, we often believe we can…

For two decades, one document stood between Iran and the bomb — at least in diplomatic terms. Ayatollah Khamenei’s fatwa against nuclear weapons was cited in international negotiations, referenced by Western analysts, and treated by some…

The late Bella Abzug aroused strong reactions. “She was loved and definitely hated,” says her daughter, Liz, in a succinct summation.

A brash and flamboyant American social activist and politician who served in the House of…

Over the last several posts, we have considered two principles questions or themes. The first was whether an individual can be Hispanic and Jewish. The second and third posts took us on a detour of sorts considering the matter of Jewish…

The strategic space linking the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean is increasingly operating as a single geopolitical theater in which maritime security, infrastructure connectivity, and supply-chain governance converge….

As a student activist in Sudan under Brotherhood rule, I learned what it meant to hold views the regime considered unforgivable. Calling for democracy, liberalism, and secularism carried the constant threat of imprisonment, torture, or death….

With diplomacy going nowhere, Iran’s delaying tactics exposed, and the ultimatums proposed by the United States ignored, Israel and the U.S. decided it was time to act against Iran – the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. Given the…

Words can betray us. I learnt this from the philosopher, Dr Tanya White, as she introduced her series on The Work of Becoming: Jewish Resilience through Biblical Narrative. 

We are blessed with language to create order from chaos, to express…

Our first child was born in early September 1972, just a few days after the Munich Olympic Village massacre of eleven Israeli athletes and coaches. The excitement and joy of our son’s birth was, to a degree, subdued knowing that once again…