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Andy Blumenthal

Aug 2, 2026, 4:57 AM

Don’t Wait Until Death to Learn How to Live

Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel about Eddie, an aging amusement-park maintenance worker who dies trying to save a child and then meets five people in heaven. Each encounter helps him understand a...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 2, 2026, 4:50 AM

The Angels of our nature.

One of the oldest questions humanity has ever asked is also one of the most personal. Are human beings fundamentally good? Or fundamentally violent? Modern psychology has wrestled with this question for decades. In The Better Angels of Our Nature, the psychologist Steven...

Arnon Rubinstein

Jul 26, 2026, 6:04 PM

Better is the sight of the eyes

טוב מראה עיניים The origin of this phrase is from the Book of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet 6:9) in the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament). The original is a much deeper verse appears as: ‘טוֹב מַרְאֵה עֵינַיִם מֵהֲלָךְ־נָפֶשׁ’ meaning ‘Better is the...

Jul 24, 2026, 6:04 AM

Book review – The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Deuteronomy

Imagine reading Shakespeare without knowing anything about Elizabethan England. Much of the language, humor, politics, and cultural references would be lost. The same is true of the Torah. Without understanding the world in which it was given, readers inevitably...

Jul 21, 2026, 6:23 PM

Creation: The Story of Beginnings by Grossman

Jonathan Grossman's 2019 book Creation: The Story of Beginnings, published as part of the Maggid Tanakh Companion series, is a substantial 439-page study of Genesis 1–11, with approximately two dozen pages devoted to bibliography and scholarly references. The book...

Jul 19, 2026, 7:47 AM

My Birthday with the IDF in Lebanon: A Reflection on Service and Sacrifice

Tuvia Book with Tuvia's book. Photo ©️ Tuvia Book, 2026

As I prepare to celebrate my 58th birthday with the men and women of my PALMAR Combat Medical extraction unit in the north of Israel, I find myself reflecting on the journey that has led me to this moment....

Alexandre Gilbert

Jul 16, 2026, 11:07 PM

Stéphanie Roza Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #336

(Stéphanie Roza, copyright: Céline Nieszawer/Leextra via Opale.photo)

Stéphanie Roza, French historian of ideas, political philosopher, research fellow at the CNRS, specializing in the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and their legacy on the left, published La gauche contre les Lumières? (2020), arguing that part of the modern...

Jul 15, 2026, 9:05 PM

Deuteronomy by David Fohrman is very informative

In 2026, Maggid Books, an imprint of Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd., published "Deuteronomy," the last of the five Parsha Companions authored by Rabbi David Fohrman. Rabbi Fohrman reveals nuances in Deuteronomy's Hebrew text that many people do not know,...

Jul 12, 2026, 8:32 PM

The Case for ‘Aspirational Zionism’

"Everything depends on how we live in our land and how we behave here. Our brethren in the Diaspora want to see here what is missing there in the cultural and spiritual and moral life of Galut must...

Jul 10, 2026, 6:29 PM

Defending the Photocopy: Why Copyright Is Failing Gen Z

Reading Culture Before Copyright: In Defense of the Photocopy. An AI Illustration. (Credit: ChatGPT)

There is a difference between having information and having knowledge. Information arrives instantly and leaves just as fast. Knowledge is built slowly, through repetition, annotation, argument, and return. It lives in the margins of a well-worn page, in the...

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