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Apr 3, 2018, 4:12 PM

A two-state solution for the United States

Illustrative: Red and blue states, US presidential elections 2012. (via iStock)

Divide the country to bring peace to the US: blue on the coasts and red in the middle (Chicago's got to go)

Feb 28, 2016, 12:49 PM

The children’s intifada

Why children have been at the forefront of the latest round of Palestinian violence

Sep 9, 2015, 3:39 PM

The halachot of colonoscopy

Illustrative photo of doctors on their way to an emergency room, October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

A common medical procedure has a lot in common with the Jewish New Year

Jul 28, 2015, 6:48 PM

Disengagement’s silver lining

Since Israel departed Gaza in 2005, an empowered Hamas and the PA have fought each other instead

Apr 5, 2015, 3:18 PM

At Passover, we talk like an Egyptian

The Bible’s account of the splitting of the sea echoes a tribute to Ramesses II

Oct 25, 2014, 8:33 PM

Revering rabbis in the age of scandal

On the importance of being able to put our spiritual leaders up on a pedestal

Oct 2, 2014, 9:53 PM

Praying with a pedophile

The Kol Nidre liturgy has a lesson to teach about making room for the best and the worst of us

Apr 22, 2014, 5:27 PM

The Korean principal’s suicide

Coast guard members search for passengers near the sunken South Korean ferry Sewol on April 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ ED JONES)

Instead of beating oneself up (or worse), Jewish tradition favors finding constructive ways to move on

Mar 25, 2014, 11:58 AM

Kiddush with Grace

An Israeli Torah scholar finds himself debating the Exodus in the Bible Belt among llamas and lemurs

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About Me

Joshua Berman is a professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University and at Shalem College and a fellow at the Herzl Institute, Jerusalem. He is the author of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought.