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Chanukah 5782 Mythical stories in all cultures, which developed mostly before literacy was common, rely on portentous and unusual images...

Sukkot 5782 The novelist Milan Kundera noted that the difference between a path and a highway is that a path is “a strip of ground over...

Tisha B'Av 5781 The word “horizon” is tricky. We generally refer to the horizon as an indication of expansiveness, even limitlessness....

Shavuot 5781 According to Midrash, all the souls of the future generations were present at Mount Sinai the moment the Torah was given. As...

One article changed my whole view of Zionism. Since I’d grown up in a strongly Zionist environment, from my home to my day school to my...

If you have a European or Middle Eastern heritage and you grow up in the Southern Hemisphere, you suffer from permanent cognitive...

JFN President and CEO Andrés Spokoiny's presidential address at the JFN 2021 International Conference, delivered online on Wednesday,...

Ridiculousness is one of the central characteristics of Purim. On this holiday, we are not afraid to be silly and absurd. We don funny...

It takes just 13 seconds to chop down a tree with an ax. If you must know, New Zealander David Bolstad holds the world record of...

Sorry to break it to you, but Hanukkah is not that unique. Almost every culture has a midwinter holiday in which light is the main...

When my son, a high school senior, decided to take a science course that would look good on his college applications, he initially...

(A Message for the National Day of Philanthropy) Anybody who, like me, has ever tried to lose weight – and failed – has experienced some...

Rome’s highest honor for its military leaders was the triumph. It was an extravagant and lavish affair in which the triumphator, wearing...

According to physicist Carlo Rovelli, the most radical discovery of quantum mechanics is this: Things don’t have concrete existence, but...

“Since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem”, says the Talmud, “prophecy has been taken from prophets and given to fools and...

Recently, the Washington Post reviewed the charitable donations of the 50 wealthiest Americans during COVID. What they found was...

The Talmud, the Jewish people’s greatest work of collective genius, is the direct consequence of the destruction of Jerusalem and its...

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed our Jewish communal infrastructure in grave danger, as Armin Rosen documented here earlier this week. At...

Nietzsche is probably one of the most misunderstood and manipulated philosophers in history. The most pernicious manipulation of him was...

Many things that worried us tremendously a few months ago seem to have lost their urgency in the age of COVID19. As Bari Weiss noted in a...

Pantaphobia is a very rare medical condition in which the patient feels absolutely no fear. Thanks to a middle-aged American woman known...

Here's A Better Strategy for Addressing the Crisis In the current crisis, we are hearing calls in the Jewish media and in leadership...

Scroll down or click here to watch this speech. “These are the times that try men’s souls,” said Thomas Paine. And these times are trying...