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The old saying, “united we stand, divided we fall,” conveys a pithy truth; if we knock others down on our path to success, it catches up with us in the long run and eventually knocks us down ...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-key-is-unity/

“Trane was searching for a particular tone on his horn; he had what he thought was a perfect embouchure, but his teeth hurt constantly, so he searched for the soft reed which would ease the pai...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-poet-michael-s-harper-heard-in-john-coltranes-a-love-supreme/

One particular image of Captain Alfred Dreyfus has stayed with me since childhood. Dreyfus is standing stiffly to attention while the officer presiding over his ceremonial humiliation tears the i...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-dreyfus-case-a-study-in-scapegoating/

When did you last yearn for some real social contact? Did the thought of just meeting that friend pass your mind? You are not alone. I’m dead-tired of the restrictions by now, they come and go ...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/am-i-too-worried-for-my-son/

Every four years on January 20th the President of the United States begins a new term in office by taking the following oath at his inauguration, “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully exe...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/god-bless-the-president-2/

A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia. Luis Soriano hopes in doing so to help bring peace to his violenc...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/bringing-books-and-seeking-peace-in-colombia/

In July, 2019, the Pew Research Center examined the question as to whether belief in G-d was necessary to teach morality. Numerous people were questioned in countries all over the world. Their fi...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-problem-with-religion-and-its-solution/

I find it nearly impossible to read torah without looking out the window, I mean that literally and metaphorically. Very often when I study, I have to sit with a verse and look out into near noth...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hard-hearts-soft-words/

The eighth of ten plagues which G-d brought upon the Egyptians in the lead-up to the Exodus was the Plague of Arbeh — locust. Locust is the word for a Borg-like collective of grasshoppers t...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-grasshopper-resistance/

Protect the NHS. We hear this exhortation repeated over and over again. The United Kingdom’s National Health Service is to be protected at any cost. This sounds a little strange to us in Israel...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/protect-the-nhs/