The Midrash of the Tall One: Adam, the Giraffe, and the Vertical Light of Creation A kabbalistic reading of a creature that bridges heaven and earth.
In effect, the Haredi world has taken one crucial limb of the old Jewish body – the beit midrash – and tried to live inside ...
While I’ve been grateful for Shai’s advocacy for quite some time, I didn’t know much about her beyond the unapologetic truth ...
While an existential security crisis—the geopolitical collapse of the Sahel—threatens to engulf North Africa, Algiers remains ...
Gatekeeper of the Territories: Israel’s COGAT and the Daily Lives of Palestinians COGAT will play an essential role in the ...
Lag BaOmer bonfires and picnics have been adopted by some with a fervor as if Moses himself had commanded them. Mimunah is celebrated as if Judaism can’t do without it. More recently, Ashkenazic Jews ...
On October 7, 2023, the western side of the kibbutz — the neighborhood where our young adults lived — suffered the heaviest ...
Support for the war effort, perceiving the troops, especially the fallen fighters, as heroes, limiting or marginalizing criticism of one’s own side – these are all very common trends in wartime polls, ...
Nonetheless, while antisemitism is not universal, it is perennial. The fact that this “oldest hatred” has erupted, unimpeded, ...
Michael Eisenberg’s recent essay, Building Israel’s Trillion-Dollar Economy, has resonated far beyond the world of venture ...
The images of young Israelis in the West Bank brandishing guns and clubs, killing Palestinian farmers, torching their crops ...
“As a child who grew up in a non-religious, non-Zionist home, the Mechina helped me clarify my identity and my willingness to ...