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As We Leave Egypt and Covid, We Cannot Simply ‘Go Back’ To the Past (Passover 5781)
If you have a European or Middle Eastern heritage and you grow up in the Southern Hemisphere, you suffer from permanent cognitive...


What We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself (Passover 5780)
Pantaphobia is a very rare medical condition in which the patient feels absolutely no fear. Thanks to a middle-aged American woman known...


The Messenger Who Can't Speak (Pesach 5779)
Do you think that leaders who are assertive, self-assured, speak clearly, and “call a spade a spade” are better leaders? Think twice....


Why is This Freedom Different from All Other Freedoms?
There few things more delightful that getting into an argument with your teenage child about the meaning of “freedom”. No, my dear son,...


Nietzsche and Pesach: How the Exodus Ruined Everything
Frederick Nietzsche believed that the Egyptians were blond. My apologies; I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start from the beginning:...


The Seder: Liberation and Radical Empathy
Every culture has etiological myths, foundational stories that relate the origins of the people in question. Those stories — which...


Back to Childhood for a Day—or More
Every time I go back to Argentina my mother makes me feel like a child. She reminds me to button up my coat, impervious to the fact that...


Redefining Freedom as Pesach Nears
Those of you with young children or grandchildren surely know books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate. My kids love them and I’ve...


Our Great Incomplete Journey
Passover is a holidays of journeys. The journey of the Hebrews from Egypt to the Promise Land; the journey from Slavery to Freedom and...
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