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It Was Never About the Burger
By Rabbi Josh Wander A story out of Lakewood recently circulated and stirred predictable outrage, but what made it so…
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The Unbroken Chain: The Transmission of Sacred Truth
The Avodah (service) of the Sanctuary is a Divine chok — a precise legal decree that must be performed according…
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The Lie We Choose to Live
By Rabbi Josh Wander There is a quiet contradiction that sits at the center of modern life, one that most…
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Europe’s Next Black Plague
By Josh Wander History rarely repeats itself cleanly, but it echoes with unsettling precision. The Black Death that swept through…
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Zionism — God’s Hand or the Work of the Devil?
By Rabbi Josh Wander There are few words in modern Jewish discourse more loaded, more misunderstood, and more explosively divisive…
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25,648
By Rabbi Josh Wander There are numbers that inform, and there are numbers that haunt. 25,648 is not a statistic.…
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The Month You Can’t Ignore—Unless You Choose To
By Rabbi Josh Wander There is something deeply unsettling about entering the month of Iyar if a person is being…
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The Last Minutes of Nissan: When Time Itself Holds Its Breath
By Rabbi Josh Wander There is something uniquely heavy about the final hours of Nissan. It is not just another…
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Between Auschwitz and Geula
By Rabbi Josh Wander There is something almost unbearable about the timing of Yom HaShoah this year. Not because it…