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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...

Jul 31, 2026, 8:39 PM

The Drone That Was Certain

Every military in the world is now confronting a frightening new reality. A weapon no longer needs to cost millions of dollars to cause enormous damage. A relatively inexpensive drone can fly hundreds of miles, carry an explosive payload, and...

Steven Windmueller

Jul 31, 2026, 5:59 PM

Windmueller on the Principles of Jewish Political Behavior

This essay is the second in a series of articles unpacking my core ideas. The first framed my thoughts on community, power and technology. This paper addresses my thinking about Jewish political practice and behavior. Over more than five decades,...

Jul 31, 2026, 12:06 AM

From Rebbe to Jung to Quantum Physics: The Truth that Less Means More.

Chassidic teaching offers a profound paradox: “The true Yesh is Ayin.” And “The Ayin is the true Yesh.” Translated: the only real “something” is the “nothing” of self-effacement before God, and that “Nothing” is the only true “something”. At the intersection...

Jul 30, 2026, 4:20 PM

The Foundations of Jewish Education: Parashat Eikev

The first two paragraphs of the Shema appear in consecutive Torah portions. Last week, in Parashat Va’etchanan, we read: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.” This week, in Parashat Eikev, we read the second...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Jul 30, 2026, 9:08 AM

The Illusion of Reality (Ekev)

"Matrix Manna" (AI image by author)

“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.” – Lily Tomlin When The Matrix was released in 1999, the internet was rapidly entering everyday life, virtual reality was capturing the public imagination, and society was approaching a new millennium with both...

Jul 30, 2026, 4:03 AM

A Court Cannot Summon the Messiah: On the Limits of the Sanhedrin’s Authority

A reconstituted Sanhedrin has issued a ruling asking Heaven to reveal the Mashiach and rebuild the Temple. But the classical sources draw a sharp line the court has crossed. When a reconstituted Sanhedrin issues a formal ruling that asks Heaven...

Allen S. Maller

Jul 28, 2026, 8:21 AM

Why ‘Jacob’ When God Changed Jacob’s Name To Israel

Why do we still say "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” even after God has changed Jacob’s name to Israel. If we look at the “big picture,” Jewish survival is perhaps the greatest miracle of all Jewish history....

Allen S. Maller

Jul 27, 2026, 4:19 PM

From Ongoing Time Judaism to Wide World Spread Islam

Why Hebrew-Jews (Genesis 14:13) were able to survive as the only ongoing monotheistic religion for about 15 centuries, when none of the other hundreds of pre-Abrahamic prophets' monotheistic religions could not I do not know. But while the Jews...

Jul 27, 2026, 12:41 PM

Judaism is Not a Religion

It has been awhile since I took to these pages. This past March the Ayatollah Kohmeni sent ballistic missiles to Israel which unfortunately kept us from attending our grandson’s bar-mitzvah in America. My beautiful wife and I took the...

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