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Alaric DeArment

Aug 23, 2026, 10:40 AM

Guenter Lewy’s Damaging Legacy Cannot Be Ignored

The scholar Guenter Lewy died on March 24, at the age of 102. But despite the adage that one should not speak ill of the dead, the damage he did to the historiography of the Romani genocide cannot be...

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 22, 2026, 11:37 AM

The Work of Living After October 7

ALS scares me. So does terrorism. Both force us to confront how suddenly life can change. I did not come to Tuesdays with Morrie as someone revisiting an old favorite. I came to it after October 7, carrying questions I...

Aug 20, 2026, 3:02 PM

Book review – Between Torah and Derech Eretz

A few months ago, a collector from Israel went around with the attached tzedakah card. The card described an impoverished family whose children were sleeping on the floor. It then explained that the father learns Torah all day, resulting...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 18, 2026, 3:04 AM

Jewish Society of Ceará Inaugurates Library Honoring David Rosenthal

Last Friday (14), the Jewish Society of Ceará (SIC) in Brazil, celebrated a special moment of memory, culture, and knowledge with the inauguration of its new library, named in honor of David Rosenthal — a tribute to a life...

Aug 16, 2026, 11:08 AM

Fear Is Loud. Joy Is Louder. And Now It Has a QR Code

Rabbi Yaniv Meirov’s new book pairs a two-minute video with every Torah portion — and quietly builds one of the smartest Jewish engagement models I’ve seen. We’ve all lived the moment. You’re at a Shabbat table, a Sheva Brachot, a...

Jaime Kardontchik

Aug 11, 2026, 8:02 AM

Israeli elections: A perspective from California

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The Israeli public will most probably concentrate in the coming elections on the urgent internal problems of the Israeli society. However, Israelis must not lose sight that these are irrelevant in the international arena, for which the critical question...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 9, 2026, 1:07 PM

The Perfect Engineer

The Perfect Engineer Unravelling the Creation of God Through Biomimicry There is something wonderfully humbling about Velcro. In 1941, Swiss engineer George de Mestral returned from a walk to find burrs clinging stubbornly to his clothes and his dog’s fur. Most of...

Aug 7, 2026, 6:14 PM

Nolan’s Odyssey, Israel’s Nostos

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Like the mythical Greek hero, Israelis since October 7 have been navigating endless obstacles to reach the feeling of safety we call 'home'

Aug 7, 2026, 12:58 AM

Book Review: A true story dressed up as a novel

The Dressmaker of Baghdad is based on the true story of the mother of Orna Zaig, published in 2025 in Kindle. Zaig is one of several (mostly female) authors writing in English who have tried to recreate a vanished...

Aug 6, 2026, 6:21 PM

Book review – Foundations and Concepts in Lomdus

For many students of Gemara, there comes a moment when the discussion on the page begins to reveal something deeper. The give-and-take of the Talmudic sugya, the unit of discussion, yields an underlying conceptual architecture in which legal principles,...

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