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Israeli Judaism

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A Sweet Eretz-Israeli Elul

How did the happiest month of the year become a month of fear?

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Who Is the Father Who Died in the Song “Met Av U’Met Elul”?

Three fathers created one song over the course of a thousand years

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Jewish History Through a Stretcher

The essence of history from the perspective of a reserve soldier

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Left-Right, Jewish-Israeli

Two vital voices for the model state

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Family is life

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The Small Partings of Life

Mom told you that Avner from the grocery store passed away and you didn't even make it to the funeral, what a schmuck you are

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Why do kids love sour so much?

And what it has to do with our own missed chances in life

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When a Millionaire Haggles with a Market Vendor over Two Shekels

There is no rationality in stinginess

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It’s Not Always Fun to Make Dreams Come True

What did I learn from my little son's Hanukkah money? (Miketz)

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The Jewish Year Cycle

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A Sweet Eretz-Israeli Elul

How did the happiest month of the year become a month of fear?

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Who Is the Father Who Died in the Song “Met Av U’Met Elul”?

Three fathers created one song over the course of a thousand years

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Who Is the Mysterious Beloved of the Song of Songs?

It is customary to read the Song of Songs on Passover; beyond the springtime that suffuses the scroll, there is another fascinating connection

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The Kindness of Receiving

Why Neta loves precisely the bland coffee I make her, and why on Passover, to be truly free, we must learn to be a little needy

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Education and Relationships

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A Love of Thorns

The Land's thorns teach us a great secret about love

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Which Kind of Friend Pushes Us Away?

True friends call you precisely when they need you

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The Small Partings of Life

Mom told you that Avner from the grocery store passed away and you didn't even make it to the funeral, what a schmuck you are

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Kindergarten teachers are the great educators of life

Kindergarten Teachers: The Great Educators of Life

A calendar reminder for 20 years from now

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Leadership and Israeli Society

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Why do centrist parties always fail?

Where did they go: Kulanu, Kadima, Hosen L'Yisrael, the Center Party and the Third Way?

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Left-Right, Jewish-Israeli

Two vital voices for the model state

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Udi wasn’t a leader. Just a driver on the Jerusalem–Masada line

And he hated expectations. And he didn't understand what needed changing. And he didn't know how to shout "Come on, guys!"

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What Frightens the Haredim Most About Zionism?

Zionism carried out four major revolutions. The fourth was the most radical

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The Land of Israel

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A Love of Thorns

The Land's thorns teach us a great secret about love

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The Secret of the Caper Bush

And how it is connected to the daughters of Zelophehad and the Torah portions of Pinchas and Masei

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The Girl Who Opposed the Cable Car at Masada

And what the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense wrote back to her

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The Tragedy That Gave Us Naomi Shemer

I bore you alone, I raised you alone, and I buried you alone!

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Weekly Torah Portion

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The Secret of the Caper Bush

And how it is connected to the daughters of Zelophehad and the Torah portions of Pinchas and Masei

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The Parasite That Killed the Acacia Tree — and Served Moses as a Dire Parable

In the middle of Shabbat Nitzavim, walking through Moshav Ein Yahav, I suddenly understood the problematic verse

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The Hike That Solved the Mystery Behind the Jabbok Crossing

At the Jabbok crossing we received the name of the people of Israel. But what really happened there? For Parashat Vayishlach

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All the Mitzvot of Seven Have a Common Denominator

And most of them are followed by the eighth day. For Parashat Behar

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History

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The Prophet of Water and the Prophet of Fire

On the educational paths of Elijah and Elisha

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The Tragedy That Gave Us Naomi Shemer

I bore you alone, I raised you alone, and I buried you alone!

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Jewish History Through a Stretcher

The essence of history from the perspective of a reserve soldier

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Our Greatest Victory: The Yom Kippur War

A few important figures

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Holocaust and Zionism

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The Girl Who Opposed the Cable Car at Masada

And what the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense wrote back to her

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Our Greatest Victory: The Yom Kippur War

A few important figures

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Levi Eshkol’s Humor Saved Us

And which leader had no sense of humor at all

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Could the Holocaust Have Happened Only in Germany?

"Beware!... In Germany a drama will unfold beside which the French Revolution will seem a harmless idyll" — so said Heinrich Heine a hundred years before the Holocaust