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Leaving Egypt Behind - Embracing Sacred Metaphor at Passover
When my grandfather retired from his congregation, he became a “cruise ship” rabbi and he traveled the world with my grandmother. My first year of...
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Judaism & Spirituality
The Twitter Scrolls- Joseph in Egypt Edition
A crack team of researchers recently unearthed fragments of ancient tweets that had been kept on a remote Egyptian server farm in the Nile Delta....
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The Cautious and the Careless
As various processes of change seem to take hold throughout the Middle East and North Africa there seem to be two camps emerging among observers...
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Israel & Overseas
Sharing the Building Blocks of Civil Society and Democracy, in the Middle East
Israeli leaders have been understandably quiet over the last few weeks nervously watching as one country after another in the Middle East and North Africa...
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Israel & Overseas
Democracy (with a side of Anti-Semitism?) in Egypt
It seems that the entire world (including many journalists) has been voicing a non-stop stream of effusive and unqualified praise and support for events taking...
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Israel & Overseas
The Balance of Optimism and Pessimism in Herzliya
by David Bernstein I'm at the Herzliya Conference in Israel, titled "The Balance of Israel's National Security," where strategic thinkers gather to discuss the big...
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Israel & Overseas
A Teachable Moment for Israel ?
“Uncertainty” has once again become the watch word for the Middle East: With Hezbollah in power in Lebanon, the Egyptian government on the brink of...
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Israel & Overseas
How Will Israel Respond?
As unrest continues to spread in the Arab world, most visibly in Egypt & Tunisia, but perhaps most dangerously (in the near and medium term)...
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Israel & Overseas
A Looming Storm in Lebanon
I have written several piece lately about the unrest (revolution?) taking place in Egypt, and the potential threat it poses to the overall stability of...
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Israel & Overseas
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Sudden Change: Mishpatim and Upheaval in North Africa
I’m beginning to believe that no one really knows for sure how or why things happen, and all that all we can do is...
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