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Steven Bayar

The power of an onion

The women chose the vegetables they received from Pesia’s Kitchen. They were ruthless, rejecting produce that wasn’t perfect. And on their faces, I saw joy

Human brain with highlighted inferior frontal gyrus, computer illustration. It is a part of the prefrontal cortex and the location of Broca's area, which is involved in language processing and speech production. (Getty images)

Sheldon Paul Stone

A stroke doctor who had a stroke in front of a stroke patient

I’m irritated by the stuff I now have to do, like exercise and sleep, in the hope of preventing a much worse stroke. I miss alcohol. But I’m choosing life

Image: Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by Francesco Hayez.

Abe Mezrich

You can’t rebuild the Temple in the Tower of Babel

The factionalism of zealots who are furious that we don’t all want what they do gets us nowhere. We need an ethos of diversity instead

File: Hezbollah fighters raise their hands as their leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link during a rally to mark Jerusalem day or Al-Quds day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, April 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Amir Avivi

Now’s not the time to settle the maritime dispute with Lebanon

A transitional Israeli government cannot make concessions to a dysfunctioning Lebanese state dominated by a terrorist organization

Doctors and nurses strike outside the Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem on August 25, 2021. Staff at public hospitals all over Israel were protesting the lack of budget for the Israeli healthcare system. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nora Ann Colton

Israel’s healthcare workforce needs an urgent digital makeover

The crisis will only worsen unless the traditional nurse and physician roles are reimagined

From left: Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Commissioner Hussein al-Sheikh. (WAFA); Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub (Majdi Mohammed/AP); Senior Fatah official Mahmoud Al-Aloul (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Bishara A. Bahbah

Mahmoud Abbas is 87. Who will replace him?

These likely contenders to succeed the Palestinian president will all stick with Abbas’s policies – the differences between them are a matter of style

Children donate clothing for Jewish refugees in Cyprus, 1948. Photo: Benno Rothenberg, the Meitar Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel

Amit Naor

Donating pocket money for Jewish refugees in Cyprus

In 1947, Britain still held Jewish immigrants in camps in Cyprus, many of them Holocaust survivors. Here’s how the children of the Yishuv helped

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Aug 4, 2022, 8:40 PM

Wanderings of a Soup Ladle

Our arrival was a non-event in the history of the town. Even though our family connections there spanned centuries and generations, the casual observer would detect nothing to link us to this place, this space, this particularly beautiful location...

Aug 4, 2022, 8:34 PM

Book review – Professor Haym Soloveitchik’s Collected Essays: Volumes 1-3

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Many people know of Professor Haym Soloveitchik from his landmark 1994 paper Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy. That paper achieved significant praise, but also some criticism. However, when pressed to name something else Professor Soloveitchik has written,...

Aug 4, 2022, 8:31 PM

Live the Pain: A revolutionary approach to chronic pain

While living with chronic pain has a tremendous impact on one's physical abilities, what people rarely realize is how all encompassing the chronic pain experience really is. What does it mean to plan your future when your body feels...

Aug 4, 2022, 8:27 PM

Growing Pains: A Tisha B’Av Reflection

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At a conference of neurological science with hundreds of neurologists in attendance, a particular kind of disorder was discussed among all the scientists and doctors. The disorder causes individuals to faint about an hour after waking up in the...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Aug 4, 2022, 8:12 PM

How does the US allow itself what it forbids Israel?

Remember the condemnations when Likud's Sharon visited the Temple Mount? They gave the pretext to the Second Intifada. Over a thousand Israelis were murdered and thousands more maimed. It was only stopped by the Palestinian leadership because the public...

Aug 4, 2022, 8:09 PM

Baseless hatred

(Sharon Dominick, Getty Images, model and property released (MR&PR))

Last week we ushered in Av, the saddest month on the Jewish calendar. Like each new month, on Rosh Chodesh we ask for a life of honor. We chant, “Grant us a long life.” “A peaceful life with goodness and blessing.” “A...

Aug 4, 2022, 8:06 PM

‘Good Grief’ Parashat Devarim 5782

The Book of Devarim can be roughly divided into three parts: Part I is a brief recap of the forty years in which the Jewish People wandered in the desert after the Egyptian exodus, Part II is an assortment...

Aug 4, 2022, 1:26 PM

When Will the Messiah Come? – Considering Tisha B’Av

On Tisha B’Av, the day that Jerusalem was destroyed, tradition holds that the messiah will be born. The hope for redemption inspired generations. On a day fraught with messianic expectation, all would be well advised to be careful what...

Hamidreza Zarifinia

Aug 4, 2022, 12:44 PM

Dangerous game: Tehran is Moscow’s partner in Crimes Against Humanity

The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is trying to participate in Russia's aggression against Ukraine. They try to participate in this war through the sale of military equipment. This new phenomenon needs analysis and to be explained. Behind...

Aug 4, 2022, 12:10 PM

Finding God among the chaos: Insights into Tisha B’av

Finding God among the chaos: Insights into Tisha B’av from - of all places - Midrash Rabbah on Parshat Lech Lecha Warning, another Torah story you were taught in third grade is about to be stress-tested. We all learned how...

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