History
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From the hills of Jerusalem to the rivers of Babylon, finding their way to the highest peaks of the Caucasus — a story of a Jewish community that didn't just preserve their faith, but weaponized it for survival. In the mid-19th century, a group of European Jewish travelers stumbled upon a sight they couldn't explain. […]
Current
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Small-scale theft has a new name — "microlooting" — and some influencers call it a public good. That's the position New York Times Opinion Cultural Editor Nadja Spiegelman took recently in a conversation posted on the paper's website. "I'm proposing a new term: Microlooting," she declared. "People are taking small things from big corporations and they're feeling […]
“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness really knew what they were talking about.” --Elon Musk on X, February 5, 2026 When the richest person in the world declares that money does not buy happiness, all of us should respond: Then what does? Elon Musk, with his 809 billion dollars, can do anything, go anywhere, and […]
The pickle didn't conquer New York by accident. It arrived in a barrel, on a pushcart, hauled by Jewish immigrants who had been brining vegetables to survive Eastern European winters for generations. They brought the technique, the garlic, the dill, and the hustle, and within a generation they had transformed a preservation technique into a […]
Video
Beyond the wars, the headlines, and the politics lies a story 2,000 years in the making.
