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Choosing Our Chosenness: Answering the Call with Spiritual Intelligence

Yosi Amram contends with the notion of being part of a Chosen People, exploring its universality across cultures and the responsibilities this chosenness entails.

Blintzes, Sinai, Revelation: The Concrete Implications of a Custom

Through a nuanced examination of interrelated minhagim, Nachman Levine shows how the custom of eating dairy foods, particularly blintzes, on Shavuot reenacts a collective initiation into Torah Study, allowing us to reexperience Revelation.

Manna, Mitzvot, and Meaning

Ned Krasnopolsky explores the roles of meaning and obedience in matan Torah.

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Choosing Our Chosenness: Answering the Call with Spiritual Intelligence

Yosi Amram contends with the notion of being part of a Chosen People, exploring its universality across cultures and the responsibilities this chosenness entails.

COMMENTARY

Yom Yerushalayim: On Not Yet, Always Already, and the [Im]possibility of...

Aton Holzer reflects on Jerusalem and Zionism.

Book review – The Yemenite Children Affair: Ethnic Tensions, Immigration, and...

The Yemenite Children Affair is among the most persistent myths in Israeli society. Ben Rothke reviews a recent book examining the evidence, or lack thereof, for the affair, as well as what its persistence means for community relations in contemporary Israel.

CULTURE