Rebecca’s painful pregnancy led her to consult a prophet, who revealed she carried twin ‘giants’ (ge’im) as the Torah describes them. From these two, the sages prophesied, would emerge two brilliant gems: Rebbe and Antoninus (Talmud, Avodah…
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Inviting G-d To Dinner
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The Cavalry Of Righteousness: The Tzaddikim & The Zohar’s “Horses Of Might”
Iyov / Job 39:19–25: הֲתִתֵּן לַסּוּס גְּבוּרָה הֲתַלְבִּישׁ צַוָּארוֹ רַעְמָה הֲתַרְעִישֶׁנּוּ כָּאַרְבֶּה הוֹד נַחְרֹו אֵימָה יַחְפְּרוּ…
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How Institutional Bias Is Undermining the BBC’s Credibility
In November 2025, both BBC Director-General Tim Davie and News Director Deborah Turness resigned after the public revelation that the broadcaster had manipulated excerpts of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech in a Panorama documentary….
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What Ireland Better Learn from Israel—and Quickly
Few countries on Earth are under siege like Israel and Ireland, the former having fought off coalition after coalition of enemies attacking relentlessly for the last three-quarters of a century, with the latter now wilting under a different yet…
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Cooking: life, fire, necessity
The Human Verb There is hardly a more universal verb than “to cook.” Long before cultures invented philosophies or liturgies, they discovered fire. And before they discovered fire, they learned hunger. The Hebrew bašalבשל captures this…
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Munther Isaac, Jack Sara, and the Rise of Respectable Antisemitism
A new form of antisemitism is taking root inside global Christianity, and its danger lies in how quietly it moves. It does not rely on old slurs or medieval caricatures; instead, it adopts the vocabulary of empathy and justice. This version does…
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About the West’s Selective Priggishness and Neo-Orientalism
In an era when light reflects across the political desert of the Middle East, the illusion of a moral mirage rises again and again. From afar it appears as conscience, justice, compassion. But as one draws closer and the dust settles, it becomes…
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Jews Will Not Abandon New York — Jews Will Redeem It
By Dr. Shmuel Legesse Upcoming author of Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World: Inspired by the Vision of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks When fear rises, courage must rise higher. Some Jews in New York whisper about leaving, moving to other U.S. cities or…
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Some radical consequences of God being beyond time
Fasten your seat belts G^d created Space and Time. He’s not just eternal or of all time. He’s beyond or above them. We can’t really imagine it. We only know He’s not confined by spacetime. That means that He can reward us before we…
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They Could Have Resisted, but Roberts and Heritage Chose the Schacht Route
There are moments in public life when the fog clears and the stakes become unmistakable. These are the moments when institutions can no longer hide behind white papers, messaging, or legislative agendas, because the real question is not about…
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