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The Four Foundational Harms of a Phone-Based Childhood

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In this text, I describe the four foundational harms of the phone-based childhood. These are profound changes to childhood caused by the rapid technological...

FOUR NORMS TO DEAL WITH CELL PHONES ADDICTION

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I offer these ideas for reforms, all of which aim to reverse the two big mistakes we've made: overprotecting children in the real world...

How And Why The New York Times Ignored The Holocaust

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THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS FOR POWERFUL MEN TO DO NOTHING  WHEN JEWS WERE OBSESSED TO BE GERMANS... Many times I...

TEFILA COMPANION

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Dear Friends , these are the recordings of some of the most important Tefilot. The audios were made, mainly, for learning the Tefila, but they...

Clint Eastwood, Shlomi and the Jewish people

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November 21st, 2014 Two days ago, as Coty and I were leaving 'Mamila', near the Old City we met Shlomi, a young 'cool' Israeli taxi...

SHABBAT: Having guests and parenting, by Coty Bitton

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This Friday you can feel a sense of excitement at our home. My husband told me that this Shabbat we are hosting a group...

NITSABIM: How do You Say “Zionism” in Biblical Hebrew?

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Zionism= The return of the Jewish people to the land of Israel to found there a Jewish State. Many people today — friends and enemies...

GOOD NEWS: Robots in the Israeli army

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This is a summary of an article by Dr. Guy Bechor, published in "Gplanet," August 13, 2026 Israel needs more soldiers. This is probably one...

BALAQ: Maimonides, Bil’am & Lord Voldemort

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The Torah dedicates three entire chapters to a pagan sorcerer hired by the king of Moab to curse Israel with his spells. Apparently, this...

SHOFETIM: The Dreamer of Dreams who Once Visited My Community

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I believe I have never written about this before, among other reasons, to protect the dignity of the people involved. That is why I...

SHOFETIM: How Much Do You Charge to Tell My Future?

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THE TWO DESIRES There are two things human beings have always wanted and never been able to have. The first is to know what the...

Rabbi Isaac Delouya (d.ca. 1572), the first Sephardic rabbi in Morocco

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Rabbi Isaac Delouya (הרב יצחק דלויה) was born in Spain in the second half of the fifteenth century. The year is unknown. Nothing survives...

Ten Traits of a Truly Happy Person

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More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught that happiness is not something we stumble upon by chance. A fulfilling life is built through...

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM: One Step Down

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STEP DOWN ONE RUNG Young people all over the world are finding it harder and harder to get married. And in the face of that...

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM Don’t fall in love with a picture

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Our Sages understood beauty in exactly the opposite way from how the modern world understands it. For Greek culture — and for contemporary culture, which...

SEGULOT FOR SHIDDUKHIM ” Easy going”

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When someone asks me what matters most in a shidukh — beyond a decent family and compatible religious and moral values — for me,...