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Studying and More Studying

Every day, Rav Elyashiv woke at 2 or 3 a.m. and studied Torah for 16-20 hours—until he died yesterday at the age of 102, robbing the Haredi world of one of its foremost authorities.Rules of the Game

As in chess, so in halakhah: Simply knowing all the rules does not a great player make. Kadima’s Prospects, and Bibi’s

Now that the unity government deal between Likud and Kadima has ended, where will the broad middle of the Israeli body politic go?Holding Fast to Tisha b’Av

At what stage can we conclude that the Exile is over, and that we no longer have to torment ourselves with fasting?West Bank U.

Think political resistance to a university in Ariel will be bad?  It might pale in comparison to academic antagonism from Israel’s seven competing universities . . . No Memory of Munich?

To the Olympic Committee, Jewish blood is cheap, too cheap to risk upsetting a bloc of Arab nations and other countries that oppose Israel and its policies.Sabbath in Space, Communion on the Moon

Why is our secular endeavor of space exploration flush with religious observance?The Suicide Israel Forgot

While the leaders of Israel’s social protests turn Moshe Silman, who tried to burn himself alive, into a poster boy, few recall Yelena Businov, whose self-immolation was a response to the withdrawal from Gaza. (2005)The Prophetic Voice

The prophets were the first people to see time as the arena in which the great drama between God and humanity was played out, especially in the history of Israel.Borges, a Jew?

“In a typewriter in the hotel room where his body is found is a note: ‘The first letter of the Name has been written.’”