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Jun 18, 2026, 6:22 AM

What India Might Learn from Israel’s Involuntary Urbanism

A class is held in front of the iconic stained glass windows at the old National Library of Israel building in Jerusalem, in an undated photo. (Source: The Times of Israel)

Most comparative analyses begin in the wrong place. They ask: what has Israel built that India should copy? Drip irrigation. Iron Dome. Mossad. The startup ecosystem. Unit 8200. These answers are not wrong, they are simply shallow. They describe outputs...

Apr 11, 2026, 11:31 PM

In the valley of bewilderment

Shock. Anger. Sadness. Fear. Grief. When aspects of our world feel broken, when we experience a rupture, we enter what's known as the liminal space – or what the writer and philosopher David Brooks calls the valley of bewilderment. Life can...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Apr 9, 2026, 9:58 PM

Instruments of Punishment and Atonement

Midrash Tanchuma (Beshalach 21) links our Torah reading in Parshat Shmini which speaks about the death of Aharon’s sons, Nadav and Avihu, to our Haftara which tells the story about how Uzzah died because he touched the Ark of...

Reuven Chaim Klein

Apr 5, 2026, 5:08 PM

Moist and Wet – lach, ratuv, ra’anan, rutfash, tofeach, and mefulam

In this essay, we discuss six different words that mean “wet” in Hebrew: lach, ratuv, ra’anan, rutfash, tofeach, and mefulam. While on the surface, all of these words seem to mean the same thing — which would make them synonyms — we will delve into...

Mar 30, 2026, 7:37 PM

From Wilderness to War

From Wilderness to War: A Passover Reflection on Presence, Dignity, and What We Carry Forward 2026 Passover Reflection (1) The Passover story does not end with the crossing of the sea. It continues in the wilderness — in uncertainty, in fear, and...

Mar 26, 2026, 4:20 AM

Discovering 18 Chai, in Chemistry, Torah, and Soul.

If you try to count every tiny particle in a glass of water, the task seems impossible. Each droplet holds trillions upon trillions of molecules—far more than what sight, touch, or reason can understand. However, science has found an...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Feb 9, 2026, 6:25 AM

China’s Caribbean Play: America’s New Front

Beijing is not “investing” in the Caribbean the way a normal commercial actor invests. It is building optionality for coercion: logistics access, political leverage, and informational positioning in the United States’ near abroad—close enough to matter, small enough to...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jan 30, 2026, 7:29 AM

Tu Be’Shvat These Days: The (Re-Re)Greening of Israel

In a few days we will be celebrating Tu Be'Shvat – one of the minor holidays on the Jewish calendar. In Israel, though, it has lately taken on special resonance for a couple of reasons that indicate important, related...

Jan 27, 2026, 6:04 AM

Water and the Test of Responsibility

Tu Bishvat Reflections on Scarcity, Food Inflation, and Responsibility Tu Bishvat, the New Year for Trees, is rooted in Jewish law in the Mishnah (Rosh Hashanah 1:1), which establishes the fifteenth of Shevat as the point from which the agricultural...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jan 15, 2026, 1:58 AM

The Middle East’s Next War Will Be Over Water

The Middle East is not running out of slogans. It is running out of water. And while pundits remain hypnotized by manifestos, missiles, and terrorist groups the region’s real balance of power is being rewritten quietly, mechanically, and without...

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