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Jun 22, 2026, 11:33 AM

Mekudash: Restore the Court’s Voice Where It Left Off

The United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding that halted recent military operations, reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, lifted blockades, extended a ceasefire to Lebanon, and established a 60-day window for further nuclear negotiations....

Aug 5, 2025, 12:06 AM

Yes, and… Shabbat D’varim/Hazon 5785

Shabbat Hazon, which always coincides with our starting the book of Deuteronomy, has a unique feeling. It’s a feeling of ambiguity, and of competing impulses. It’s a feeling that I like to call “Yes, and…”. This feeling, for me...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Aug 3, 2025, 9:52 PM

Instruments of Suckling – shadayim, dadim, atinim

The Torah commands us to write the passages of the Shema on parchment and place them on the doorposts of our homes (Deut. 6:9, 11:20). These encased passages are often referred to as a mezuzah, although in Biblical Hebrew, mezuzah literally refers to the...

Aug 3, 2025, 12:26 AM

Tisha B’Av Reflection: The War Within, Then and Now

On Tisha B’Av, we sit low, read Eichah (Lamentations) and poems of what we have lost, and remember the burning of our Temples. But the tears we cry are not just for stone and fire. They are for the...

Aug 1, 2025, 7:41 PM

Parshah through the Mediator’s Lens: Devarim

As a Jewish legal mediator, I often turn to Torah not only for spiritual guidance but for timeless wisdom in navigating human conflict. This week’s Torah portion, Devarim, the opening of the Book of Deuteronomy, offers a profound model...

Aug 1, 2025, 6:49 PM

Eicha: All of Life’s Struggles In One Word

On Tisha B’Av this Saturday night and Sunday, Jewish communities around the world will be reading the book of Eicha/Lamentations. The saddest day of the year, Tisha B’Av commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the beginning...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Aug 1, 2025, 6:49 PM

A Litigious People (Devarim)

"Roman Lawyers" (AI image by author)

“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.” — Robert Frost The dream of many a Jewish mother has long been to proudly proclaim "My Son, the Lawyer" just after "My Son, the Doctor."...

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Aug 1, 2025, 6:43 PM

The Echo of an Accusation in a Time of Fracture

Each year, as summer wanes, and we enter the narrow straits of mourning—the Three Weeks culminating in Tisha B’Av—we are summoned to listen again. Not just to remember, but to be shaken. Among the most startling voices that rise...

Aug 1, 2025, 5:55 PM

The Foundation Stone

This Sunday is Tisha B’Av, and, not surprisingly, the world seems to be turning against us. Lies about Israel fill the media. The push to create a state for people who openly reject peace and glorify terror gains momentum....

William Hamilton

Aug 1, 2025, 5:45 PM

Today, I want to talk about self-doubt. Some people walk around without the slightest whiff of it. Their certainty is odious. Then there are some who struggle mightily with it. Tugging at the bottom of their pant leg, not...

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