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The conflict between truth and peace dates back at least as far as the creation of the world, with…

A legal brief and a good story are two very different forms of writing. We have even coined a term…

“Based on the words of two or three witnesses shall the matter be established” (…

Over the last few posts (see here and here) we have been discussing those who are…

“Rav Nachman said: Those who eat davar acher, the other, are pasul, invalid to give…

Innocent until proven guilty is a fundamental tenet of the our secular legal system. It finds…

"And G-d blessed them and G-d said unto them: Be fruitful and multiply and fill the land…

We are all products of—and greatly influenced by—our environments, which is why our…

The land of Israel is a special, holy land and thus, all produce grown on it has properties of…

Malcolm Gladwell, in his best-selling book Outliers, delineates how much of one's success…

I have long thought that far and away the best introduction to and overview of Judaism is the …

One of the areas of law that even otherwise non-observant Jews tend to observe are those relating…

Marshall McLuhan, the insightful Canadian philosopher, noted that with the rapid advances in…

Perhaps the fundamental difference between the Written Law and the Oral Law is that the former is…

One of the fiercest debates in medieval Jewish history was engendered by the attempt to reinstate…

It is in times of crisis that strong leadership is most needed. And up to that point in Jewish…

When things go well all are ready to take credit, even if they had little or no role to play in the…

“At that time I pleaded with G-d, saying, ‘O G-d, Lord…please let me cross the…