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Jun 25, 2026, 3:40 AM

Dark Energy and Divine Light: A Hasidic Framework for the Structure of Reality.

The Hidden Light of Darkness: Dark Energy, Chasidut, and Human Struggle. I am going to present, in English, a free translation of a Hasidic discourse delivered by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, in 1953. When you read (or...

Jun 23, 2026, 7:43 PM

Why Now is the Time to Invest in Israeli Higher Ed

Bar-Ilan University (Courtesy)

Against the backdrop of prolonged conflict, Israel is navigating a defining moment—one that is reshaping not only its security landscape, but the future of its people and institutions. As Americans looking toward Israel’s future, we have an opportunity to...

Jun 21, 2026, 3:01 PM

One World, Many Realities: How Perspective and Bitachon/Trust Redefine Limits

How two people never see the same rainbow. The idea that a person can shape their own destiny despite external limitations is often dismissed as motivational rhetoric, yet both modern science and classical Jewish thought offer a far deeper and...

Jun 15, 2026, 4:17 AM

Someone taught him to hate

Shai Davidai outside Breads Bakery on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, January 9, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

The cure for a man screaming curses at me in front of my children is a widespread culture of curiosity and inquiry. US educational institutions have work to do

Jun 10, 2026, 8:00 AM

An apology from your American Jewish parents

Manhattan, NY, May 3, 2024 (iStock / Florida Chuck)

We raised you in exile to succeed in the culture of our oppressors. Now we need you to do the one thing we never taught you: defy us

Gordon Louis Aronoff

Jun 9, 2026, 6:42 PM

When Antisemitism Becomes ‘Political Discomfort’

Avi Lewis at the podium after securing the leadership of the NDP on March 29, 2026. Image retrieved with permission from https://x.com/BenNephrology/status/2038286722086375731/photo/1

In May 2025, the Canadian Jewish News published an op-ed I wrote in response to a letter signed by forty academics who invoked their Jewish identity to demand the resignation of then-Quebec Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry. The Quebec...

Jun 9, 2026, 4:11 AM

Physics of the Mystics: Lowering Your “Spiritual Gravity” to Touch the Infinite

How the Baal Shem Tov Saw 15 Years into the Future There is a beautiful and mind-blowing story from the history of Chassidut that seems almost impossible to believe at first. It sounds like a miracle that defies the rules...

Jun 3, 2026, 8:04 AM

More Than a Diploma

One of the most formative experiences of my cantorial training took place during my final year as a student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, when I became the first cantorial intern in the history of Congregation Beit...

Gabrielle Bartelse

Jun 1, 2026, 8:05 PM

The university between truth and activism

On administrative cowardice, moral selectivity and the loss of academic Courage There are moments when a university must redefine itself—not through buildings, rankings or policy documents, but through the way it relates to truth, power and public pressure. The continuing...

May 28, 2026, 8:50 PM

From Lebanon’s Drones to AI, Robotics and Moon Missions: The Fiber Optic Age

From Israblog to the Battlefield: Israel’s Fiber Optic Revolution. As Israel now faces drones connected by fiber-optic cables — a technology capable of challenging even the “Startup Nation” — I was reminded of something I wrote nearly 20 years ago. In...

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