Human Interest
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Are you an Abraham, an Isaac or a Jacob? Each of the Patriarchs embodied a core drive that still lives inside every one of us. Abraham embodied chessed, kindness and the drive to give. Isaac embodied yirah, a deep sense of purpose and reverence for what is higher than yourself. Jacob embodied emet, a commitment […]
Human Interest
4 min read
Maybe he comes home from work and drops onto the couch without saying hello. Or she’s on the phone with the bank for the third time this week and her voice keeps rising. You can feel the stress rising and because you love them, you want to help. So you say something that only makes […]
On the eve of World War II, Poland was home to about 3.3 million Jews, the largest Jewish community in Europe. We usually picture its final years as a story of religious decline. Young Jews, the story goes, were leaving the synagogue in droves, trading prayer books for socialist pamphlets and Zionist dreams. By the […]
The first trapdoor was hidden in the floor. In 2012, Dutch corporate attorney Roxane van Iperen bought a secluded nine-room house on a quiet forest path and began to renovate it. The house started giving up its secrets almost at once. There were more trapdoors, secret rooms, and double walls. Then came stranger finds: old […]
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Critics said “Ur of the Chaldeans” proved the Torah was written a thousand years late. Then a 3,000-year-old tablet turned up in the wrong place.
