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Jul 7, 2026, 5:58 PM

The more you appreciate what HaShem gives you, the calmer and happier you become

Many people spend their lives focused only on what they are missing. What is not working out? What am I lacking? Why is life difficult? But when your mind focuses only on what is missing, you slowly lose your sense of joy. Torah teaches you to notice all the good that...

Jul 7, 2026, 1:20 PM

A Shared Future for Israel and the Diaspora

The Israeli flag featuring the Star of David against a clear blue sky and trees, picture from Pexels website (https://www.pexels.com/photo/flag-of-israel-with-star-of-david-in-blue-sky-30849038/).

As antisemitism rises across much of the West, some argue that the traditional relationship between Israel and Jewish communities overseas requires fundamental reassessment. Rather than viewing Israel primarily as a cause to defend or debate, they contend that both...

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 4, 2026, 10:26 PM

The Abyss Taught Me That Connection Is Everything

This week I had one of the most frightening dreams of my life. In it, I was severed from everyone I had ever known or loved—not merely alone, but cast into an emptiness beyond light, beyond warmth, beyond relationship...

Allen S. Maller

Jul 4, 2026, 10:23 PM

One Mahdi Plus 3 Messiahs VS Armageddon”s Super Hot Planet

Tens of millions of Americans sweltered under furnace-like temperatures as central and eastern American cities hunkered down for a heat wave. Over the last four years, more than 200,000 people have died in the E.U. due to extreme heat. Figures from France's...

Jul 4, 2026, 5:53 PM

Builders –- Reflections on America’s 250th Anniversary

My Zadie, Eddie Goverman (left), at the construction of one of the suburban Boston schools his company built during the postwar years. Only recently did I come to appreciate what he was really building.

”Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans…” — John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 America turns 250 this year. For...

Jul 3, 2026, 7:52 PM

The Freedom No One Can Take Away

In August of 1790, George Washington sailed into Newport, Rhode Island. The backstory to that trip is fascinating. The Constitution had already been accepted by the other twelve states, but Rhode Island resisted joining the Union. Many there feared that...

Jul 3, 2026, 7:10 PM

Where the sky caressed the earth

The Yam Tso holy lake. Tibet, 2000.

I have been lucky enough to travel to many places, and in some of them the sky seemed distant, almost unreachable. But there is one place I still remember, even decades later, as the opposite experience: Tibet. I remember walking...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Jul 3, 2026, 5:30 PM

The Power of Honoring (Pinhas)

"Moses Ordaining Joshua" (AI image by author)

“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other” -Edmund Burke God has informed Moses of his impending forced retirement. Moses will not cross the Jordan River with the people of Israel to enter the promised land....

Jul 2, 2026, 11:47 PM

A Man of Masks and Mountains

One of the saddest moments in the Torah walks hand in hand with one of its most selfless. In this week’s parasha, after counting the Jewish People who will shortly possess the Land of Israel, Moshe is reminded that...

Jul 2, 2026, 7:34 AM

Why Do Jews Fast for Jerusalem?

A 17th of Tammuz reflection on why one small city still matters to the world. I write these words as the sun rises over Jerusalem. The first light breaks across the hills of this extraordinary city, just as it has for...

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