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Oct 2, 2026, 7:12 PM

The Crown of Compassion

Why I Created the Royal House of Kanaani — and Why I Believe the Way We Treat Animals Can Bring Redemption Closer By Ordained Animal Chaplain Mikhail Salita (Rav Papa Kanaani) Humanity has made remarkable progress in the way we think...

Oct 1, 2026, 8:14 PM

What ‘They Shall Be My People’ Does Not Mean

The Jerusalem Noahide Congress is not the next step toward the House Brit Olam has printed a verse over the First International Noahide Congress and treated the printing as arrival. “And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in...

Sep 24, 2026, 7:10 PM

Book Review – New Year, Lots of New Books on the Parsha

Daf Yomi, like the weekly Torah reading, creates a shared Jewish intellectual calendar. On any given Shabbat, an Orthodox Jew anywhere in the world is likely to be hearing the same Torah portion as Jews in Jerusalem, London, Teaneck,...

Sep 24, 2026, 10:31 AM

“Identity Crisis” Sukkot 5787

Everyone knows why we celebrate Passover. It commemorates the exodus from Egypt. Now ask why we celebrate Sukkot. The answer is clearly written in the Torah : “So that your generations should know that I housed the Jewish People...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Sep 22, 2026, 8:50 PM

Long Live the Constitution (Vezot Haberachah)

“There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.”* -William Pitt The Elder Chatham* Since the beginning of civilization, kings and rulers have been a necessary part of the hierarchical and organizational structure of society. Once a community,...

Sep 16, 2026, 12:14 PM

‘The First Atomic Layers’: Yom Kippur 5787

This week marked the third anniversary of the death of my father, Edward Sacher. My father was a distinguished scientist. I always knew that. He authored close to four hundred peer-reviewed publications over the course of his career. What...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Sep 15, 2026, 6:02 PM

Beware the Four Horsemen (Haazinu)

"The Four Horsemen" (AI image by author)

“I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen Death chases us all down like an implacable horseman; it is merely the time and the manner of the dying that is...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 14, 2026, 7:12 PM

The World Exists for Israel

In Parshat Haazinu, Dvarim 32:8-9, we come across a perplexing idea: When the Supreme One gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided humankind, He set the borders of the peoples according to the number of B’nai Yisrael. For the...

Sep 9, 2026, 10:27 PM

‘A Box of Roses’ Rosh Hashanah 5787

As the High Holidays approach, we often find ourselves talking about boundaries. We talk about commandments and prohibitions, obligations and restrictions. Many modern people are uncomfortable with such prehistoric language. We live in an age that worships optionality. We...

Sep 5, 2026, 10:00 AM

First, stand. Then, go.

What Nitzavim-Vayeilech taught me about finding my voice, standing still, and knowing when it's time to move

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