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Aug 9, 2018, 9:49 PM

Israeli Aid to Syrians Offers Hope for Future Peace

On August 3, The Times of Israel reported that Israel has frozen its aid to Syrian citizens, dubbed “Operation Good Neighbor,” and has begun to dismantle its field clinic used to treat those wounded in the Syrian Civil War....

Jul 29, 2018, 12:26 PM

Israel — Blockchain Capital of the World?

Cryptocurrencies and the underlying Blockchain technology that powers them generate a fair deal of mixed feelings in many jurisdictions around the world. On the one hand, some people believe that Blockchain technology is the most disruptive force of the...

Jul 27, 2018, 6:28 PM

Lights, Sound, No Action

Living in a home with deaf parents in the 60s and 70s prior to the current myriad of technology for the deaf, posed some interesting challenges. My father was extremely handy and creative. He could fix almost anything. And,...

Jul 6, 2018, 12:55 AM

The lost masterpiece

Illustrative: Michal Baratz Koren's portrait of the five daughters of Zelophehad, who first raised before Moses the case of a woman’s right and obligation to inherit property in the absence of a male (Courtesy, Michal Baratz Koren)

If women like Zelophehad's daughters had gone out to spy the land, they'd never have spoken negatively of it (Pinchas)

Jul 5, 2018, 11:10 PM

How do you inherit your heritage? Ritual!

Illustrative: Russian-speaking Jewish Americans at Limmud FSU in Princeton, NJ (Courtesy Ross Den)

Jokes and borscht from my parents' Russia pale in comparison to the customs and practices of Judaism

Harvey M. Lederman

Jul 5, 2018, 9:41 PM

The Jewish angle for this triathlete

Illustrative: Competitors make their way from the finish area at the London Marathon in 2010. (Tom Hevezi/AP)

If my motivation flags, I think of Maimonides and his scorn for those who don't exercise

Jul 5, 2018, 9:36 PM

It's Jew vs. Jew in NY local politics

Illustrative: East Hampton, New York, March 6, 2010. (iStock)

With Trump in the White House, decency is not inevitable, unless each one of us is willing to fight for it

Jul 5, 2018, 9:15 PM

'I don't have time to talk to you'

Illustrative: Turkish mosaic lamps in an Istanbul bazaar. (iStock)

Have Turkey's warm welcomes been warped by years of Erdogan’s calculated mix of hate and financial success?

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

Jul 4, 2018, 8:38 PM

On the 4th, from afar

Illustrative. Holiday fireworks. (iStock)

You feel comfortable to me, America, because I stayed with you so long I can't be me without you

Jul 4, 2018, 8:19 PM

I was a draft-dodger

Illustrative: Soldiers of the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion sit in a field at the Peles Military Base, in the Northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Where the South African army was an instrument of racism, the ultra-Orthodox have nothing to complain about

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