We tend to believe that our brains change gradually, as we age – like our bodies. But this seems not to be the case. Science Daily * recounts that “Researchers have identified five major transitions in brain structure that shape how we…
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From Lab to Life: How Our Brains Change Over the Life Cycle
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“Shortcut” Vayishlach 5786
Darkness falls on a fleeing Jacob and he stops for the night. The Torah [Bereishit 28:11] tells us that he “encountered the place and stopped for the night because the sun had set.” The Talmud in Tractate Hullin [91b] explains that this was…
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The High Cost of No Unity
For more than eleven years, Time To Stand Up For Israel (TTSUFI) has worked day and night, often literally 24/7, to defend Israel, educate the public, correct misinformation, and give a platform to survivors whose voices deserve global respect….
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Do we really need the IDF Chief of Staff?
An army needs many different people doing many different things. Each department helps the general effort. Each person’s individual role is instrumental for the success of the whole army. When people say, “Let’s stop the scholars from…
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Shockeling During Davening
According to the holy Baal Shem Tov all good Jews shockel their bodies when enthusiastically they daven, thus imitating how unshamefully they shockel shmockels like hallah that their kallah places in a heated oven. Those people laughing at them…
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The Fire Extinguisher and the Mirror: Poland’s Braun Problem
Poland’s Braun Problem: A Century of Antisemitism That Never Ended When the Polish government summons the Israeli ambassador because Yad Vashem wrote that “Poland was the first country where Jews were forced to wear identifying marks,”…
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Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel – Part XXI
Ritual, Religion, and the Spiritual Practices of Shared Life Sacred Memory, Moral Imagination, and the Work of Daily Peace Series Preface Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel examines how law, belonging, dignity, and justice…
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Understanding Galut
There is a certain reality that needs to be clarified. We often write about the Galut, the exile, but its real meaning may not be clearly understood. There is a positive aspect of modern day Jewish History. I am referring to the fact that most…
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Sexy Soldiers, Ignored Warnings: How Gender-Bias Fueled Oct. 7th Massacre
In the pre-dawn haze of October 7, 2023, the young women of Nahal Oz—Israel’s “eyes on the border”—watched their worst fears unfold. Stationed at the Gaza frontier as part of IDF Unit 414, these all-female surveillance soldiers, known as…
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The Difficult Hug
On Parashat Vayishlach and the Courage to Stop Running A few weeks ago my daughter and I were working on Chumash homework. The assignment was uneventful: read several pesukim and then draft a question on what we had read. As we worked through the…
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