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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... →

19/09/2019 - 16:41

I didn’t know other interfaith Jews growing up, so the first ones I met were through books. Specifically, Margaret in Are You There... →

12/09/2019 - 11:22

Inside the bubble-wrapped envelope was a photograph of Soros, marked with a red "X". Alongside it, a six-inch plastic pipe, a small clock,... →

05/09/2019 - 12:15

And as Germany goes, so goes Europe. For millennia, following the destruction of the Second Temple and the beginning of the diaspora,... →

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