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At 4 A.M. in Tel Aviv an alarm goes off. It’s not a siren; it’s for an American basketball game. When Deni Avdija, the 25-year-old forward from Herzliya is the star player representing Israel in the NBA playoffs, Israelis don’t sleep through it. Deni just scored 41 points in a must-win playoff game. He leads […]
Human Interest
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Look at six graphs and you'll never think about your time the same way again. Writer Sahil Bloom pulled data from the American Time Use Survey and charted how we actually spend our hours across the key relationships in our lives. The patterns are striking, sometimes uncomfortable, and impossible to ignore. Here's what they show, […]
I’m not Jewish, but if I was, I think the first lesson I would teach my children is that life isn’t fair. How else can a Jewish parent explain to their children the injustice and discrimination they will be forced to face as they grow up? How else can parents answer questions that have no […]
The Myth of the Empty Land When we learn Jewish history, the story of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel seems to end with the Jewish-Roman wars of the 1st and 2nd centuries. From there, normative history courses shift to the Diaspora: the Talmudic academies in Babylonia, the Golden Age in Spain, Jewish […]
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Beyond the wars, the headlines, and the politics lies a story 2,000 years in the making.
