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Nationalism and Liberalism

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I have always enjoyed reading Yuval Harari (Sapiens, Homo Deus and Nexus). He is creative and controversial. He covers such...

Shabbat Chukat & Balak

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Alone There are two portions of the Torah that we, in the diaspora, will read this Shabbat. After the crisis initiated...

Jewish Archaeology

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We live in a world of lies and misrepresentations. Nowhere is this more obvious than in regard to the...

Shabbat Korach

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Korach leads a rebellion against Moshe in this week’s Torah reading. Overwhelmingly, Rabbinic commentators condemn him for using religious arguments...

Myths

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The word myth can be understood in many different ways. Originally Greek, it literally meant telling stories. All cultures and...

Shabbat Naso

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Blessings Amongst the ideas that appear in the Torah this week are the laws of the Nazarite. Someone who, out...

Shabbat Bo

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Mezuzah This week, we read about the Israelites' preparations to leave Egypt. “This month shall mark for you the beginning of...

Shabbat Miketz

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More on Frailty The themes of human frailty continue. Last week, we read about Tamar and the way she dealt...

Illusions and Delusions

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Those Jews who survived the Second World War were under no illusion that the world cared about them. No nation...

The Lost Ark

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So many people love conspiracy theories, fantasies, and lost causes. Best-selling books and movies focus on myths of missing people,...

Shabbat Chayey Sarah

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Was Hagar Abandoned? Hagar was the maid servant that Sarai (later Sarah), the wife of Avraham, took as a surrogate...

Shabbat Eykev

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CHOSEN It still amazes me how often I hear non -Jews claim that we Jews are so arrogant and exclusive...

Sir Thomas More

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I was always interested in history. Having been brought up in England, I have a particular interest in its...

Fasting

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In The Economist of June 20th, there was an interesting article under the heading “Do longevity drugs work.” The subtitle was that...

Shabbat Pinchas

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Qualities of Leadership In addition to the spiritual and ritual laws of the Torah, themes of leadership run through all...

Woke Aida

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The opera Aida was composed by Giuseppe Verdi and first performed in 1871. The story is about a mythical Egyptian Kingdom in...

Shabbat Mikeytz: Dreams

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Dreams play a very important part in the biblical narrative. In recent weeks, we have read about Yaakov’s dream of...

Shabbat Chukat: The Unknowable

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There are various words for law in the Bible. Torah is a very general all-inclusive term. Mishpatim refers to what we call...

Shabbat Shmini: You are what you eat

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After dealing with the sacrificial system and with the roles that priests play within it, the Torah turns to...

Why Purim matters

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Purim matters so much this year. It tells a never-ending story. We were threatened with destruction. We responded by...

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