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Jan 8, 2026, 2:16 PM

How Antisemitism Escalates: Exposing Egyptian Jew-Hatred

Pharaoh ordering the midwives, the casting of the male children into the Nile (Passover Haggadah, 14th century via Wikimedia)

The opening of Shemot reads like a case study in antisemitism. Pharaoh feels no allegiance to Yosef or the Jews. He casts the minority’s growth as suspect and forecasts a catastrophic future for the country. Thinkers such as Michael Walzer...

Nov 28, 2024, 4:59 PM

Leah’s Thanksgiving: Finding Blessing in Brokenness

This year, expressing gratitude feels more challenging than ever. In a time of uncertainty and fragility – when even ceasefires create new anxieties – it’s natural to wonder how we can feel thankful when so much remains unresolved. Yet...

Nov 12, 2024, 3:38 AM

Trump, masculinity, and the Jewish alternative

The rabbinic solution doesn't erase men’s unique traits or glorify their most destructive instincts, it offers a constructive path

Jan 3, 2024, 5:05 PM

How Moshe and the TikTok generation became our heroes

Countless Israelis have remarked on the bravery and leadership demonstrated by the soldiers currently serving in Gaza. Since October 7, the rise of a new generation of heroes has offered a glimmer of hope for the future of Israel...

Dec 10, 2023, 11:49 AM

The Vulgarity of the United Nations – and Hanukkah’s Hellenists

As we celebrate Hanukkah, the United Nations predictably excoriates Israel and downplays Hamas’ evil at every step. But beyond the recent US veto at the Security Council, Israel itself has begun to turn the tables. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli...

Mar 3, 2021, 1:30 AM

The Jewish muscleman who likely inspired the creators of Superman

Sigmund Breitbart, who performed feats of strength a hundred years ago, wasn't just very strong, he was also a very proud Jew...and a very sweet guy

Oct 30, 2017, 3:33 AM

To begin confronting sexual abuse, we need more male voices

Mayim Bialik’s now-famous New York Times piece apparently linking immodesty to sexual assault, for which she subsequently apologized, has generated endless controversy over the past two weeks. The animated discourse inadvertently has also underscored a separate, but crucial, point:...

Aug 21, 2017, 8:31 PM

A Disgraceful Week

It ought to go without saying -- but, unfortunately, it no longer does -- that the events of last week were utterly disgraceful. That the president of the United States would draw an equivalency between neo-Nazis and their opposition,...

Mar 1, 2017, 5:35 PM

Fake news and Purim

A holiday known for hilarity and inebriation celebrates events that heralded an era of unusually rational analysis and literacy

Jan 3, 2016, 6:42 AM

Spotlight: Earning the Trust of Our Community

My wife and I try and see at least one movie each year. Earlier this week we "heretically" chose to forego the new Star Wars movie and see Spotlight instead. As it turns out, we did not regret our...

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About Me

Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Sinensky is director of the Lamm Legacy digital archive and director of Judaic Studies at Main Line Classical Academy. A member of the inaugural cohort of Sacks Scholars, he has edited over fifty books. He also publishes Reasonable Judaism on Substack and hosts a daily WhatsApp Torah audio series, From the Beginning.

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