9+ hour, 51+ min ago  (728+ words) Every year, as we gather around the Passover seder table, we retell a story that is both ancient and deeply personal. But if I'm honest, I have to admit that Passover has never been just a story to me. It…...

9+ hour, 54+ min ago  (426+ words) For many years, in my work with leaders and organizations, I used a simple but demanding idea: Even if it's not entirely true, I would ask people to take 100% responsibility for how they respond to their situation'and 0% for blaming circumstances…...

9+ hour, 53+ min ago  (601+ words) My father, of blessed memory, had a saying: "If everyone jumps from the roof, it does not mean that you should." I have carried those words my entire life. This Passover, they feel more urgent than ever. When Moses led…...

9+ hour, 53+ min ago  (932+ words) Yet these transformations are not only ecological. They reveal something deeper: a parallel erosion of human interiority. The question is not only whether the world can sustain us'but whether we are still capable of sustaining a world. We say: we…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (936+ words) Moses vs. Pharaoh: The binds of leadership'The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (211+ words) This is not a funny time. People have been injured. People have been killed. We are at war. And yet somehow there is a strange humor, a strange continuity of life and hope, that allowed us to enjoy a Passover…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1473+ words) Why is this night different from all other nights?" The child's question at the Seder is asked about a single evening, but it opens onto a larger question: what makes Pesach (the Passover) so singular in the Jewish calendar? That,…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (427+ words) So I wrote a few days ago about watching Sennacherib's Prism " a 2,700-year-old record of the siege of Jerusalem " get carried into a bomb shelter during a missile alert. It was a pretty surreal thing'but it gets even better. A…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (1079+ words) The modern obsession with "checks and balances" assumes something deceptively simple: power must be divided, structured, and restrained by design. We point to the familiar architecture" United States Congress writes the laws, President of the United States enforces them, Supreme…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (341+ words) I was born in 1989 into a traditional Muslim Arab family in Jordan, a society where religion is deeply woven into the cultural and social fabric of everyday life. Like many others raised in such an environment, Islam was not merely…...