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The Blogs: Eating out is political. So is rewriting Israeli food history
30+ min ago (594+ words) New York Magazine’s recent Grub Street article, “When Eating Out Is Political,” tells a compelling story about the changing identity of Middle Eastern restaurants in New York. But the inaccuracies begin right at the start: the history of Israeli restaurants…...
The Blogs: Rafael Nadal and Inner Stability
2+ hour, 50+ min ago (911+ words) Ritual, Rhythm, and the Mind: Nadal, the Five Prayers, and the Architecture of Inner Stability There is a moment before every Rafael Nadal serve that feels almost liturgical. He adjusts his shorts. Touches his nose. Pulls his shirt. Taps his…...
The Blogs: ‘Free Palestine’? Let’s Talk About Freedom
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (696+ words) A lone protester outside my embassy raised an obvious question: How would replacing the Middle East’s only free country with yet another authoritarian Arab state advance the cause of freedom? As I drove back to the embassy today, one man…...
The Blogs: The Happiness Paradox
3+ hour, 12+ min ago (445+ words) At first glance, that seems almost impossible. How can a country that has experienced war, regional instability, and months of reserve duty consistently produce some of the happiest young adults in the world? Perhaps the better questions are: What is…...
The Blogs: Resolution 1701 Prescribed the Right Order, Israel Is Paying for Hesitating to Enforce It
3+ hour, 27+ min ago (634+ words) Twenty years after the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, UN Security Council Resolution 1701 still sets the right end state for Lebanon: one state, one authority, no militia army. Israel tolerated its violation. Hezbollah converted seventeen years of quiet into military power. 1701 got the…...
The Blogs: Promote, Retire, Weaponize
3+ hour, 55+ min ago (1415+ words) Lithuania’s problem is no longer merely what its historians conclude. It is what the state does to evidence that produces the wrong conclusion. There are many ways for a state to falsify history. The crudest is to destroy the evidence....
The Blogs: The Universe Is a Neural Network
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (837+ words) The Universe Is a Neural Network The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on…...
The Blogs: Luiz Sayão: The aesthetics of terror and the light of the Lord
4+ hour, 17+ min ago (251+ words) Luiz Sayão — one of Brazil’s foremost theologians, Hebraists, and linguists — leads us into a profound reflection on how evil ideologies transform aesthetics into terror, and on how the light of the Eternal, revealed through sacred art, renews hope, offering deep…...
The Blogs: A Nation of One
4+ hour, 18+ min ago (870+ words) We are not just a united nation. We are a nation of one, so interconnected that we are like a single person. Wait. Is that not discriminatory? Are we really saying that Jews are different from everyone else? The Torah…...
The Blogs: Yes, James Fishback is Probably Going to Lose. Make Sure It’s Humiliating.
7+ hour, 56+ min ago (742+ words) A close loss is a proof of concept. A blowout is a dead end. Tuesday decides which one this was. Since I wrote about James Fishback a few days ago, the reply I keep getting is some version of relax,…...