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Praying for a Posek ha-Dor

“To be a posek means to be a person of unprecedented courage. A person willing to initiate a spiritual storm which will shake up the whole of the Jewish community.”Spinning Spinoza

From David Ben-Gurion to Jonathan Sacks, Jews are determined to see the traditionally Jewish elements of Spinoza’s thought—by misreading his genuine heresy.The Scapegoat of Sinai

The dismissal of Egyptian General Murad Muwafi eliminates a former negotiator with Israel and demonstrates the Muslim Brotherhood’s increasing control over the military.  Sacred Spa(ce)

Imagine a place where Jews can go in times of illness, mourning, divorce, gender reassignment; to think about intimacy, body image, fertility . . . . Meet the new mikveh.Cast a Cold Eye

Breaking ranks with his Egyptian-Jewish father, popular philosopher Alain de Botton admits that religion might have something to teach atheists: pessimism. Selling Out

“Jewish communal contributions should be more like a married couple pooling their salaries for groceries, and less like a crowd of strangers ordering their own lunches.”Survival in Buchenwald

When the SS came looking for Jews on Kinderblock 66, Antonin Kalina told them there were no more.  (He had listed them as Christians . . .) Losing the Shadow War

Despite last month’s attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, Iran’s covert operatives are being foiled at virtually every turn by their Israeli and American counterparts. The World Bank vs. the West Bank

A new report on the Palestinian economy shows that growth has been driven by foreign aid and belies a sharp contraction in the private sector that began with the Second Intifada.Proofreading the Bible

Using the Aleppo and Leningrad codices, Menachem Cohen has spent the last 30 years correcting textual errors in the Bible—and believes he has now produced the definitive edition.