Human Interest
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We tend to live as if there will always be another chance to say what really matters. Frish Brandt, author of the new book Unfinished Business: Writing the 5 Essential Letters of Your Life, wants us to know that the chance doesn’t always come again: “The time is now. What are we waiting for?” Her […]
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On Halloween 1926, Harry Houdini died in Detroit at 52. A century later, his name is still shorthand for the impossible escape. Yet history’s most famous magician and the world’s first international superstar started life as Erik Weisz, a Hungarian Jew. Houdini built his legend on stunts that should have killed him. He broke free […]
Jamie Geller's recent conversation with Dr. Yardena Bauer about GLP-1 medications raised an important and long-overdue point: weight regulation is far more complex than willpower. For too long, women have been made to feel that their weight reflects their discipline, character, or personal failures. Challenging that misconception is essential. But as someone whose work focuses […]
In a world that celebrates flexibility and going with the flow, it’s surprising how often the Torah describes the Jewish people as an am k’shei oref, a stiff-necked people. It hardly sounds like a compliment. Yet throughout Jewish history, that same stubborn determination is often what kept our people faithful to the Torah and its […]
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For a hundred years archaeologists have searched the plain around the Dead Sea for the city the Torah says was destroyed by fire from heaven. Rabbi Daniel Rowe travels to Jordan to visit the actual sites.
