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Aug 25, 2026, 6:08 PM

The Power We Have: Jewish Soft Power in an Age of Hard Questions – Ki Tavo

The Power We Have: Jewish Soft Power in an Age of Hard Questions Yossi Klein Halevi has offered a useful way of thinking about the radically different circumstances of Jews in Israel and Jews in America. Israel possesses what we might...

Aug 25, 2026, 3:22 PM

Ki-Tavo: Rav Amram HaGaon and Four Verses

When I sat down to think about who could be the Role Model for this week's parshah, I never imagined I would end up writing about a ninth-century spiritual leader from Babylonia. In truth, until a few days ago, I...

Mordechai Silverstein

Aug 25, 2026, 6:56 AM

You Make Sinai Happen!

The Children of Israel are on the cusp of entering the land after a forty-year journey through the wilderness. Moshe’s final message to his people is intended to carry them through the ages, inspiring them to embrace their identity...

Aug 25, 2026, 3:00 AM

The Myth of the Self-Made Life

There is a particular satisfaction in looking at something we have built and knowing how much work it took to get there. A career completed. A family raised. A business established. A home made secure. A difficult year survived....

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Aug 24, 2026, 12:43 AM

Discovering Gold in Israel

In the sixth Haftara of comfort, the Haftara for Parshat Ki Tavo, we come across an interesting verse about God compensating Israel (Yishayahu 60:17): “Where once there was copper, I will bring gold and where there was iron, silver....

Aug 23, 2026, 6:15 PM

Bringing First Fruits from the Periphery

In Parashat Ki Tavo, the Torah outlines the mitzvah of Bikkurim—bringing the first fruits of the harvest to the central sanctuary. The farmer goes out into the field, identifies the earliest ripened figs, grapes, and pomegranates, ties a reed...

Aug 18, 2026, 10:30 AM

The First Fruit

The farmer stood on the hillside and surveyed the land before him. Before planting a single tree or vine, he had to understand the ground. Would olive trees thrive in the rocky limestone soil? Would the hillside hold or shed...

Mar 5, 2026, 8:30 AM

New York Jews Back the Mayor Whose Imam Prayed for Killing of Infidels

Supported by the people he prayed to destroy won Momdani the day. (image generated with AI)

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat in the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens on February 20, 2026, during Friday prayers on the first day of Ramadan. The imam led a supplication in Arabic invoking the Mahdi with words...

Sep 18, 2025, 2:37 PM

The War on Israel and the Crisis of Jewish Identity

How I wish I could write only about the Parsha, without needing to speak of the war against the Jews. And I do not mean Gaza alone, but the broader, coordinated effort to deny our historical, legal, and strategic...

Lawrence Feldman

Sep 17, 2025, 11:43 AM

Sparta and the Tokhacha

I belong to a beit-knesset that parcels out the Shabbat morning Torah reading, and this past Shabbat I read the aliyah that comprises the 'Tokhacha,' a seemingly endlist list of admonishments and punishments that will befall Israel if they...

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