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Feb 12, 2026, 9:49 AM

How a Ravenous Wolf on Har ha-Bayit Forced the Sanhedrin to the Southeast

Dedicated to the beautiful memory of Yael Good. -- The reconstruction of the Beit HaMikdash according to halachah demands absolute fidelity to the sources. The location of the Lishkat ha-Gazit, seat of the Great Sanhedrin, stands as one of the most...

Jan 18, 2026, 4:11 AM

Vayechi — The Friday Evening of History

Although this week we read Parsha Vayera, I would like to share a thought connected to Vayechi. Because Vayechi is not a parsha about a week — it is a parsha about the time in which we are living. Now, according to the...

Richard Diamond

Jan 16, 2026, 6:37 PM

What makes Judaism really unique – it’s not monotheism

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Judaism is God's Way - Not man's way. Religion begins as an instinct to enlist higher power for safety. The Torah’s revolution is to constrain that instinct — and turn it into a moral vocation. Religion doesn’t begin with commandments. It...

Richard Diamond

Jan 15, 2026, 10:23 PM

America’s Return on Its Ongoing Investment in Israel

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America’s Return on Its Ongoing Investment in Israel Let's clear up a general misunderstanding: For a few cents on the foreign-aid dollar, the United States buys a security-and-technology partnership it cannot cheaply replicate anywhere else. It does not send money to...

Richard Diamond

Jan 13, 2026, 6:12 PM

Understanding how humanity works is a prerequisite for perfecting the world

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Understanding how humanity works is a prerequisite for perfecting the world What is Adam? By the time we argue about what humanity should be, we’ve usually skipped a more basic question: what humanity actually is. The Torah begins not with politics or...

Richard Diamond

Jan 12, 2026, 10:25 PM

Antisemitism, Demystified: It Starts with an Instinct

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Antisemitism, Demystified: It Starts With an Instinct — and Religion Sometimes Teaches It a Name Hatred begins in fear, but it endures when theology turns fear into moral certainty Antisemitism is often treated as a historical mystery or a uniquely irrational...

Jan 12, 2026, 3:40 PM

Parshat Shemot 5786

In Parshat Shemot we read that “Yosef died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.” Rav Hutner in his Sefer Pachad Yitzchak, Pesach, Maamer 49 notes a unique fact about Yosef - his death is mentioned twice; once at...

Shamai Leibowitz

Jan 11, 2026, 10:10 AM

Why the Torah Honors a Failure—Not a Hero

A Torah scribe generally has the freedom be begin each Torah column with any word. But there are six specific words in the entire Torah that must appear at the very top of a column. The first letters of these "Top 6" words form...

Richard Diamond

Jan 11, 2026, 9:33 AM

The Unapologetic Reality of Israel: From Fantasy to Adulthood

Zionism did not abandon Jewish ethics. It fulfilled the oldest covenantal lesson: some will bless us, others will curse us—and Jewish survival cannot depend on confusing the two

Richard Diamond

Jan 10, 2026, 3:51 PM

Israel’s strongest American allies aren’t who you think!

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The Jacksonian “honor-and-order” right—now the engine of the GOP—instinctively understands Israel’s security logic. But support is not automatic, and it won’t stay loyal if Israel’s friends speak the wrong political language. American support for Israel is no longer a single...

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