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02/12/2019 - 16:31

Here we summarize evidence on the threat of exceeding tipping points, identify knowledge gaps and suggest how these should be plugged. We... →

28/11/2019 - 16:22

The New American Judaism is an examination of the religious lives of American Jews in their religious communities, based largely on... →

24/11/2019 - 16:10

Firstly, and underscoring all other considerations, are the international legal rights emanating from the indigenous and historic claims of... →

21/11/2019 - 18:47

When instant answers just appear to pop into our minds, the Nobel prize-winning behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman refers to this as "... →

14/11/2019 - 12:11

In other words, Israel indeed received personal treatment during the Exodus from Egypt, but other peoples, too, were the beneficiaries of... →

03/11/2019 - 15:08

However, I don’t see the post-truth phenomenon in this way. I kind of understand it in those terms and I speak as someone who was voting... →

28/10/2019 - 18:58

There’s just one small detail most of those engaged in the business of aliyah tend to gloss over when raving about this trend: The majority... →

22/10/2019 - 17:04

magine that a person’s brain could be scanned in great detail and recreated in a computer simulation. The person’s mind and... →

15/10/2019 - 10:39

Lis Harris recounts a version of this in her new book, “In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family,”... →

09/10/2019 - 13:18

I never realized how unnatural my situation was until I had a family of my own. It has been three decades since the onset of what has... →

02/10/2019 - 16:50

But could camp prisoners have found ways to sound these horns, piercing the heavens with sob-like wails and staccato blasts, without... →

26/09/2019 - 12:04

Another 1,500 years later – today – Zoroastrianism is a dying faith, its sacred flames tended by ever fewer worshippers. We take it for... →

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