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SpaceX just filed the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history while losing billions of dollars. Judaism has understood this paradox for centuries. A company that lost $2.6 billion last year just filed to go public at a valuation of $1.77 trillion. By every conventional financial metric, that makes no sense. SpaceX's proposed IPO, targeting […]
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This past Friday was a beautiful day in central New Jersey. My wife decided to take the kids to a nearby park for a few hours -- a friend had recommended it. The park did not disappoint. My children were having a wonderful time. One of my sons was on the swings with his younger […]
Tourism to Sicily is booming. Dubbed the “White Lotus” effect, after the hit HBO series filmed there, the number of visitors to Italy’s largest region has increased dramatically. Visitors marvel at Sicily’s natural beauty and its outsized role in popular culture: the island has long been associated the mafia, colorful pageants on Catholic holidays, and […]
The year was 1921. A catastrophic drought has hit one of the world’s richest grain producing regions, the Volga River basin. In a dramatic attempt to save lives, the American Relief Administration shipped millions of tons of grain to Russian ports. But that grain never made it to the starving interior. Broken down railroads couldn’t […]
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Unpacking the horseshoe effect driving far-right and far-left voices toward the same antisemitic conclusions.
