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Here are a vital words on freedom and liberty, especially with cancel-culture in full swing, a preponderance of Leftist ‘fact checkers,’ social media gatekeepers, biased search engines, and Joe Biden’s

From the blog of Derek Taylor at Jewish News

Researchers reported that for some people, more introspection led to less insight about themselves.

Rabbi Sacks zt’’l had prepared a full year of Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book “Lessons in Leadership.” The parsha of Shoftim is the classic source of the three types of leadership in Judaism, called by the Sages the “three crowns”: of priesthood, kingship and Torah.[1] This is the first statement in history of the principle, set out in the 18th-century by Montesquieu in “L’Esprit des Lois” (The Spirit of Laws) and later made fundamental to the Americ...

From the blog of Gershon Hepner at The Times of Israel

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, It was the beginning of the school year of 2020-2021. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, whose talks I loved, started a large WhatsApp/ digital chat group sending every day of the month of Elul a message of ...

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Review: Rich in detail...a grand, heroic narrative., The Times Literary Supplement .Martin Gilbert has left us in his debt, not only for a superlative history of Israel, but also for a restatement of the classic vision of Zion, in which a Middle East without guns is not a bedtime story but an imperative long overdue. This is the vision for which Yitzhak Rabin gave his life. This book is tribute to his memory., Jonathan Sacks, The Times .No...

From the blog of Hernan Kopcow at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Andy Blumenthal at The Times of Israel

Alex Penk05:00, Jun 05 2021 Vladimir Godnik/Getty Images “Raising children is an exercise in growing your own character ... Having children means you’re constantly called to put someone else’s needs before your own,” Alex Penk writes. OPINION: Fertility is a vexed subject. It’s not just deeply personal and awkwardly biological, it also raises contentious and intensely social questions, like whether we’re having enough babies or too many for the common good. When private and public i...