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Sep 5, 2024, 3:57 PM

‘Finally, finally, finally, you’re free’

Memorial service for Hersh Goldberg-Polin in Jerusalem on Sunday. Photo by Stephen Daniel Arnoff.

Having spent the month writing twenty thousand words of a new book during my mini-Sabbatical, it makes sense that I would be at a loss for more words to share. But it's not the work on that book that...

Jul 4, 2024, 2:14 PM

The world according to John Irving in Jerusalem

The author with John Irving in Jerusalem. Photo by Stephen Daniel Arnoff. Used by permission.

Last night I met the man who made me a reader, and on a good day, a writer: John Irving. He's in Jerusalem to complete the final chapter of his next novel, and shared anecdotes from a life of...

Jun 6, 2024, 11:08 AM

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Hope is mandatory

This Passover, learn from Rachel Goldberg-Polin's conviction, for our destiny depends on the capacity for profound and rapid change for the better

Mar 28, 2024, 5:21 AM

Faith in a Taxi

Taxi drivers in the two cities where I have lived most in my adult life used to be legendary. In New York, you had the cabbie with the hundreds of stuffed animals front seat to back, seatbelt-free early-morning marauders...

Mar 21, 2024, 9:35 AM

Purim Is No Joke

A friend reminded me of an old joke this week: Do you know the difference between a pessimist and an optimist? The pessimist says, 'It can't possibly get any worse than this.' The optimist says, 'Of course it can!' How do we...

Mar 14, 2024, 11:14 AM

Empathy or sympathy?

My friend Michael “Mickey” Berman was the first person I reached out to for help on October 8th after the shock of the day before had subsided slightly. A group of people had huddled around Rachel Goldberg and Jon...

Mar 7, 2024, 3:33 PM

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Is it the end of a Jewish Golden Age?

A star of David carved into a rock wall window on the grounds of the Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem. (iStock)

I refuse to believe that we are destined to slip down the ladder and into the abyss rung by rung – a response to Franklin Foer

Jan 25, 2024, 8:36 AM

Like a Diamond in the Dark

Sigmund Freud said that as painful as depression may be, it is also a clear sign that something important taking shape inside of a person. “Another day of anger, bitterness, and doubt,” mystic master Bob Dylan sings, I know how it...

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Dr. Stephen Daniel Arnoff is the CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center and author of the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan.

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