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Oct 13, 2026, 5:57 PM

Making It Count

Imagine leaving school for the last time. The doors close behind you and the future is waiting. What should you study? What career should you pursue? What kind of person do you want to become? Now add one difference: you...

Kenneth Brander

Oct 13, 2026, 12:20 PM

Haftarat Parshat Noach: Barren and Storm-Swept

The haftarah for Parshat Noach is, in fact, made up of verses from two other haftarot that are also read on other days in the Jewish calendar. The two distinct prophecies from Yeshayahu (Isaiah 54:1–55:5) are each read later...

Oct 13, 2026, 7:59 AM

Seeing Red: Hubris and the Halakha of Space Flight

Rabbi Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitch, photo: Nadav Efrati / Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nahum_Eliezer_Rabinovitch

Vladimir Menshikov, Boga Nyet! [There is no God!], 1975. State Museum of the History of Religion in Saint Petersburg. Scaled-down, low-resolution image permitted under fair use clause, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82_1975.jpg

In 1961, as humans reached Space, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Lubavitch (1902-1994) wrote a private letter in which he declared that Space travel was permitted according to Jewish law. The Lubavitcher Rebbe offered a broad, affirmative framework for...

Mordechai Silverstein

Oct 13, 2026, 6:15 AM

A Conflict of Interests

When Noah and his family emerged from the ark, God both blessed them and charged them with responsibilities for the future of humankind. God offered protection for human life while imposing an obligation to perpetuate it: “He who sheds human...

Oct 12, 2026, 11:20 PM

‘Want to Create Greatness? Start by Giving Someone a Compliment!’

The Compliment That Could Change Someone’s Life Sometimes greatness begins with someone believing in you. I have a theory about human nature: Most people are walking around with greatness inside them, but nobody has bothered to tell them. We live in a...

Robert Lichtman

Oct 12, 2026, 3:50 AM

In Defense of Noah

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Today we stand between events of truly biblical proportions. Just a few days ago we read Bereishit, chronicling the creation of all life. In a day or so we're going to read about Noah and the decimation of virtually...

Oct 12, 2026, 2:26 AM

Everybody Has an Opinion. Who’s Building the Ark?

There is a remarkable amount of certainty in the world these days, especially among people who have no idea what's going to happen next. Turn on the television or scroll through social media. Everyone seems to know who's right,...

Oct 11, 2026, 7:01 PM

Surviving the Flood Is Not Enough

Parashat Noach and the difficult art of rebuilding a broken nation Three years after October 7, Israel is a nation of survivors. We have survived a massacre, a prolonged war, the agony of captivity, displacement, grief, and the shattering of...

Benny A. Benjamin

Oct 11, 2026, 1:13 AM

Pushed out of their comfort zone: Biblical lessons for reluctant career climbers

Noah, Jacob, and Moses confront career change. ChatGPT-generated image from author prompts.

Noah, Jacob, and Moses were urged to step out of their comfort zones. What can we learn from their efforts? As we restart the annual Torah-reading cycle, we are reintroduced to familiar biblical personalities. In this cycle, among many lessons,...

Oct 1, 2026, 8:14 PM

What ‘They Shall Be My People’ Does Not Mean

The Jerusalem Noahide Congress is not the next step toward the House Brit Olam has printed a verse over the First International Noahide Congress and treated the printing as arrival. “And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in...

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