Human Interest
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“I was a liar and a manipulator. I was terrified to be my authentic self. But the first time I admitted a lie, and it was met with love instead of hatred, that’s when something shifted. The truth felt better than the lie. That’s when I knew I could be sober.” Tzvi Heber grew up […]
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Every year at the Seder, we read about four sons. The Fourth Son is the one who does not know how to ask. He is the one sitting in our universities, our newsrooms, our communal institutions, and sometimes at our own Seder tables. He is the one my non-Jewish friends ask me about: We expected […]
Five centuries ago, the Jews of Spain were faced with an unimaginable choice: convert to Christianity or leave the country. When King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella united Spain under Catholic control, they celebrated by decreeing that Spain should be an entirely Christian country. As of August 11, 1492, no Jew could remain in the country. […]
Exodus 14:1 – 15:21 Introduction The miracle of the splitting of the Red Sea is the culmination of the Exodus. One week after the calamitous plague of the First Born, once again Pharaoh is chasing after the Jews to enslave them. As he advances, the Jews are trapped between the sea and the advancing Egyptian […]
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An anti-Israel channel claimed Israel is digging under the Al-Aqsa mosque, threatening its foundations — and that archaeologists have found nothing to prove Jews ever lived here. We took a tour to find out for ourselves.
