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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Cooking: life, fire, necessity
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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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Palestinian Hostility Toward Kurds
On 16 March 1988… That day, in northern Iraq, children woke up to the smell of apples and followed that scent straight into death. On that dark day, later known as the Halabja Massacre, Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against the Kurdish…
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The tragic tale of Saul, king of Israel
Saul, the first king of Israel, was a tall, strapping fellow, altogether a fine figure of a man, kaynenhora’. But he suffered from a few serious psychological ailments which should have ruled him out of the job before it even came to the…
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There is No Ceasefire in the Narrative War
As Israel’s public image has gone into free fall, we’ve now crossed a threshold where it is considered socially and politically acceptable to publicly call for the destruction of Israel and her inhabitants. This mega-shift in public opinion…
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Avraham’s Mourning For Sara
We learn a great deal from the Torah’s description of Abraham’s mourning over his beloved wife, Sara. Our Rabbis tell us that the death of one’s first wife is as traumatic as the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash. The Alshich commented on…
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