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Among the angels

I was at the synagogue of the Bostoner Rebbe, Rabbi Meir Horowitz. Time for Ana BeKoa’ch and Lecha Dodi. I cannot count how many renditions of Lecha Dodi have deeply...

Anti-Apartheid

A former enforcer of apartheid in South Africa, were he to alight upon Israel today, would not know what those who call Israel an apartheid state are talking about.

Letter from Jerusalem

All of Israel screams one word: Future! Reflections on visiting Jerusalem by Rabbi Hillel Goldberg.

A Rich Life

A book about Richard Male’s life, A Rich Life, is not an autobiography, nor was it written years ago. It was written under the sword hanging over Male’s head these...

I am not an American! Perish the thought!

“Fascism pretending to be manners.” “Bias hunters.” “Rank absurdity.” “Big Brother is watching you.” “Intellectual morons.”Such are the stingers...

Is democracy in Israel in danger?

Israel is not the United States. Israel has no Constitution, so the High Court in Israel cannot rule on the constitutionality of any law the Knesset passes.

Where does the gift of generosity begin?

Let’s start with the cover of Ruchi Koval’s Soul Construction: Shape Your Character Using 8 Steps from the Timeless Jewish Practice of Mussar. Whew! What a heavy...

Pliable as a reed, piercing as lightning

There is only one person who could console me for the loss of my deep, deep friend and teacher, Rabbi Nathaniel Lauer. And that is Rabbi Lauer himself.

The ultimate ‘action at a distance’

Here is something that Einstein could not explain. Nor could the pioneering ophthalmologists conducting a clinical trial to alleviate “Leber hereditary optic...

What I’ve learned

As The Jerusalem Post turns 90, it’s time for me to reflect on 37 of those years — the ones that I have spent at that venerable newspaper.