Unpacking Ideologies: Reductionism, Empiricism
byTranscript: Okay, so reductionism is when you take a phenomenon and you try to reduce it down to its principles and, sort of, its…
Parshat Yitro
byThe Torah is not a ‘religion’ relegated to the houses of study or prayer. Nor is it a set of rules meant to coercively modify human behavior.
Blood Moon
byThere was in its eyes a glow the pale shimmer of curling mist at the edges of the sea an irradiated grimace not quite…
Dr. King’s Message for Today
byThe emphasis of MLK Day should be on honoring his actual political conclusions and not on reducing him to the reformist for Black rights America’s bourgeois establishment feels safe commemorating.
What is Tu B’Shvat Really All About?
byThe fifteenth of Shvat is one of the most ignored dates on the Hebrew calendar but carries deep secrets relevant to Israel’s national rebirth.
Details of Trump’s Two State Plan Leaked
byReaction to the reports – whether fabricated or not – could help determine how far Trump feels he could push Israel’s government.
Parshat Beshalaḥ
byAt various historic points, a ‘low soul’ has prevented the children of Israel from successfully advancing our national aspirations and collective mission.
Court Rejects Confession After Finding Shabak Abused Underage Suspect
byThe disparity between the treatment of Jewish and Palestinian prisoners by our security forces should be corrected not by lowering the moral standard for how we treat Jewish prisoners but by raising the moral standard for how we treat Palestinians.
Elie Yosef Disrupts Yair Lapid Election Event
byThose concerned with how a Jewish state is meant to behave on the world stage are criticizing Israel’s government for arming regimes like South Sudan.
Netanyahu’s Bromance with Bolsonaro Undermine Israel’s Indigeneity Claims
byAt last week’s cabinet meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) told government ministers of his recent visit to Brazil, praising the country’s new…
Ayekah
byI keep asking myself a question or something like myself a question the being that exists in the tension between what I feel should…
Parshat Bo
byThe more we define ourselves as the actors rather than as the characters we play, the more our characters can actually succeed at fulfilling their unique roles in the story HaShem placed us in.