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Jun 28, 2020, 2:36 PM

When you besiege a city for many days, in waging war against it to capture it, you will not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for it is from them that you eat, and you shall...

Jun 7, 2020, 3:11 PM

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I expected to learn something from writing a book. The surprise was that I would learn even more after the book came out. When Dan Senor and I wrote “Start-Up Nation,” we were thinking of an American audience. We had...

Sep 17, 2019, 2:26 PM

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Andy Blumenthal

Jul 25, 2018, 3:44 PM

This is a fix for the editorial headline

This is a fix for the editorial underline

Jul 8, 2018, 1:54 PM

Church on the Brink

PCUSA’s Parting Slander Against Jewish State

Joseph C. Kaplan

Jul 6, 2018, 11:17 PM

Ani Ledodi V’dodi Li

Since my retirement (It’s Not an Ugly Word, Ernest, 1/5/18), the two most frequent questions I’ve been asked are (a) are you enjoying it and (b) what are you doing with yourself? While the answer to the first is...

Jul 6, 2018, 12:55 AM

The lost masterpiece

Illustrative: Michal Baratz Koren's portrait of the five daughters of Zelophehad, who first raised before Moses the case of a woman’s right and obligation to inherit property in the absence of a male (Courtesy, Michal Baratz Koren)

If women like Zelophehad's daughters had gone out to spy the land, they'd never have spoken negatively of it (Pinchas)

Jul 5, 2018, 11:10 PM

How do you inherit your heritage? Ritual!

Illustrative: Russian-speaking Jewish Americans at Limmud FSU in Princeton, NJ (Courtesy Ross Den)

Jokes and borscht from my parents' Russia pale in comparison to the customs and practices of Judaism

Harvey M. Lederman

Jul 5, 2018, 9:41 PM

The Jewish angle for this triathlete

Illustrative: Competitors make their way from the finish area at the London Marathon in 2010. (Tom Hevezi/AP)

If my motivation flags, I think of Maimonides and his scorn for those who don't exercise

Jul 5, 2018, 9:36 PM

It's Jew vs. Jew in NY local politics

Illustrative: East Hampton, New York, March 6, 2010. (iStock)

With Trump in the White House, decency is not inevitable, unless each one of us is willing to fight for it

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