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Jul 11, 2026, 1:04 PM

The Asynchronous Mind

The Asynchronous Mind: An Overlooked Dimension of Personality. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

An Overlooked Dimension of Personality We often categorize people by familiar personality dimensions: introverts and extroverts, analytical and emotional, structured and spontaneous. But there is another dimension that receives far less attention: How does a person process the world—in real time, or...

Jul 10, 2026, 7:20 PM

When Couples Are Arguing With History

Illustrative AI image created by the author. When fear takes over, repair may begin with one small reach across the distance.

Since October 7, Jewish and interfaith couples are fighting about schools, safety, and whether to stay — arguments that are really conversations with the past. Naming that is the first step. Knowing what to do next is the second. It...

Jul 6, 2026, 3:34 PM

The Architecture of Imagination: What Algorithmic Intelligence Cannot Inherit

The Architecture of Imagination. AI Illustration. (Credit: ChatGPT)

Einstein is often credited with saying, “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” Whether or not he actually said these words,...

Jul 6, 2026, 3:08 PM

What October 7 brought into my consulting room

'In interfaith relationships, I increasingly see Jewish partners feeling profoundly alone in their experience.' (iStock)

Couples are grappling with inherited Holocaust fears and questions of identity – and prospective clients are increasingly asking whether therapists are Jewish

Jul 1, 2026, 9:13 PM

The Reflecting Pool

I knew it would come down to this. It always does. When everything is said and done, they always find a way to blame the Jews. This time, it's the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC. It's become a...

Jul 1, 2026, 4:54 AM

The Quiet Search for Love Across the Muslim World

Illustrative. AI image created by the author.

My mother spent her life believing that love could be learned. Not performed. Not endured. Not organized around roles assigned at birth and enforced by silence. Learned — practiced, repaired, deepened — by any human being willing to do the work. In...

Jun 30, 2026, 10:18 AM

If Your Child Can’t Tell You the Hardest Truth, Nothing Else Matters

Illustrative. AI image created by the author.

Making our homes places where our children’s hardest truths are welcomed, not feared. A few months ago, a friend told me about her daughter. Sixteen years old, good student, close with her parents — or so they thought. It was...

Jun 29, 2026, 6:06 AM

American Jewish Parents, Don’t Raise Frightened Jews

American Jewish parents are asking how to prepare their children for a world where antisemitism is once again visible. The recent Democratic primary in New York’s 10th Congressional District offered two different political answers. I think it exposed a much deeper...

Jun 27, 2026, 10:06 PM

Diplomats Can Sign a Ceasefire. Relationships Keep the Peace.

Illustrative. AI image created by the author.

A ceasefire can be negotiated in conference rooms. Peace cannot. Diplomats may end the exchange of weapons, but only ordinary people can end the cycle of fear, resentment, and dehumanization that makes violence return. Lasting peace is sustained not by...

Jun 26, 2026, 6:49 PM

What Cannot Be Mourned Cannot Be Forgiven

How grief becomes grievance—and what communities can do about it. The title of this essay is not a metaphor. It is a description of something that happens — in families, in communities, in nations — when loss has no legitimate...

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