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01/01/2020 - 21:29

All Soviet children and families celebrated this holiday, and young Regina was no different. She remembers her excitement as she wondered... →

28/12/2019 - 14:13

Why do we still feel hungry after feast? Does overeating “stretch” your stomach, meaning you have more room for food the following day?... →

21/12/2019 - 12:13

At the same time, the man who strove, as he himself said, to turn political writing into an art and who declared that everything he wrote... →

13/12/2019 - 15:02

As Segev makes clear, Israel’s founding father was both exceptional and eccentric. And nearly five decades after his passing, Ben-Gurion... →

07/12/2019 - 13:08

People tend to think of gossip as synonymous with malicious rumors, put-downs or the breathless propagation of a tabloid scoop. But... →

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... →

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