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Are You Holding Your Phone or Is It Holding You?
"Screenmaxxers" now spend virtually every waking hour on their phones. These are adults, not teenagers. One person admitted to running at least three things on their device simultaneously, at all times. Another acknowledged the toll it's taking and said they have no plans to stop. What once sounded extreme is...
The Jews Who Never Left the Land of Israel
The Myth of the Empty Land When we learn Jewish history, the story of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel seems to end with the Jewish-Roman wars of the 1st and 2nd centuries. From there, normative history courses shift to the Diaspora: the Talmudic academies in Babylonia, the...
Falsely Accused
It was the day after Yom Kippur, 2023, a gorgeous fall morning in greater Miami, when Yosh (Joshua) Markell, then 40, was driving his young daughter to school and spotted flashing lights in his rearview mirror. He pulled over, assuming it was routine stop. A broken brake light, maybe, an...
The First American-Born Jewish Religious Leader
Long before there were synagogues across America, Jewish life here was fragile, scattered, and at serious risk of fading away. One man quietly changed that. His name was Gershom Mendes Seixas, and without him, the Jewish community we take for granted today might never have taken root. Today, few people...
