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Jun 2, 2026, 10:18 AM

Beyond Patronage: The People as Custodians of the Nation

The People as Custodians of the Nation. AI Illustration. (Credit: ChatGPT)

Partha Chatterjee’s political society, Hindu democratic agency, and the West Bengal verdict of 2026 The Framework and Its Horizon For more than two decades, Partha Chatterjee’s (2004) distinction between civil society and political society has done more to clarify the actual texture of democracy in...

Eliezer Avraham

May 31, 2026, 9:47 AM

America 250 | Essay 3: Patriots of the Covenant

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From financiers and soldiers to rabbis, women, and entire congregations, Jewish patriots stood at the heart of America’s fight for independence, shaping not only the nation’s birth but its enduring commitment to liberty. A Covenant of Patriots The American Revolution was...

May 31, 2026, 8:55 AM

Reality Gets the Final Vote

What a Talmudic story teaches us about labels, identity, and the danger of categories that become too small. Years ago, while living in Israel, a friend of mine was asked whether he would ever consider dating a non-religious woman. It seemed...

Michael Laitman

May 27, 2026, 8:34 PM

Who Will Unite the Middle East and Why?

The Middle East is like a powder keg, filled with conflicts between nations and within countries, alongside natural resources and ancient cultures. What needs to happen for the region to become a paradise on earth? To be realistic, we must...

Andrew Logan Lawrence

May 27, 2026, 3:56 PM

Shalom Y’all: A Jewish Story Older Than America

If you ask most people where American Jewish history begins, they'll say New York. Some might know about Newport. Almost no one says Georgia. And yet, just five months after the colony of Georgia was founded in 1733, a ship...

May 27, 2026, 4:20 AM

Why the Chareidi & Dati Leumi Divide Goes Deeper Than Strictness

We are looking inside a world that outsiders flatten (David Katash, FrockInStock.com).

It is not a frumkeit ranking, but a question of religious instinct, cultural memory, and which world feels like home. Recently, I saw an online discussion on Imamother — a popular online forum for frum women — about whether there...

May 26, 2026, 1:41 PM

The Selective Fluidity of Identity

Some identities are liberated. Others remain externally policed. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Why Some Identities Become Subjective While Others Remain Objective In my previous essay, Demystifying Gender, I explored how the word gender gradually evolved from a grammatical category into something far larger and more abstract. Originally, gender referred primarily to classification in...

May 26, 2026, 6:52 AM

One Idol Is Enough

The real danger was never many gods, but making one thing absolute Monotheism is often reduced to a math problem. One God versus many gods. Judaism, however, has always argued that the real danger is not polytheism. It is absolutism. Because technically speaking,...

Eliezer Avraham

May 24, 2026, 8:30 AM

Rededicate 250: The Covenant of Jewish Identity

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Two Rabbis at a national moment reminded us that Jewish continuity begins in community A National Rededication That Became Personal At the Rededicate 250 ceremony last Sunday, Colonel Rabbi Dr. Soussan; the Rabbi of Magen David Sephardic Congregation and a U.S. Army...

May 23, 2026, 9:21 AM

Holiness Is in the Living: Or, Doing & Praying Can Be Transcendent

Shocking to acknowledge: I cannot change the world. As much as I would like to stop Jew hatred with love and a few Tikkun Olam projects; stop the insanity of antisemitic herd mentality from festering; stop the calls for...

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