Exile and Return Both Demand Paradigm Shift
On June 7, 1967, Rabbi Shlomo Goren stood at the Western Wall with a Torah scroll in his arms.
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How the Frameworks Built to Prevent the Next Holocaust Were Turned Against the Jewish People
From Raphael Lemkin to Post-Colonial Anti-Zionism
Who Gets to Say That a Rabbi Was Wrong?
The Babylonian Talmud contains hundreds of occurrences of the word תיובתא, “refutation,” but comparatively few scenes in which a sage personally says, “I was wrong.” That difference is partly historical: the anonymous editorial voice of the Gemara often confronts a dead Amora (rabbinic sage) with material he may never have seen.
Effective Altruists are Not Great at Risk Management
SBF, and now Leopold. Why do wunderkinden Effective Altruists seem to a) be early, contrarian, and right, on trends that go mainstream but then b) get liquidated / blow-up before they can capture value?
Nationalism after Nazism
Not all Nationalisms are Equal. Covenantal Nationalism is a Third Way Beyond Racialized Nationalism and Rootless Cosmopolitanism
The Futility of Fighting Antisemitism
David walks a high-school hallway while his classmates snicker, a Post-it reading Dirty Jew stuck to his backpack, until a taller Black classmate named Bilal peels a small blue square from a pad and presses it over the slur.
Can Super-Intelligence Convert to Judaism?
AI Can Confess a Creed, But Cannot Enter the Covenant of Abraham
What the Knife Cannot Touch
On Seeing Beyond The Surface from Aristotle and Heidegger to Lurianic Kabbalah
From the Non-Jewish Jew to the As-a-Jew Jew
Jewishness morphed from Liability to Asset thanks to both Postmodernism and Zionism; without Israel's Success there would be no Jewish Left
We Hold
Performative Speech from the Mishna to the Declaration of Independence