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This essay was written by Z.E. Silver, a modern historian who created Gam v'Gam Media. Shalom friends, On the heel of Netanyahu's visit to the White House today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in the Israeli political sphere for over thirty years. Despite the
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Shalom Chaverim, This past month was Tisha B’av—one of the saddest holidays in the Jewish calendar. Most of our holidays encourage us to celebrate, and those that don’t are usually solemn in nature rather than sad. Not this one though; this holiday is deliberately about mourning the
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Shalom friends, - Recently, I read Hussein Aboubakr Mansour’s most recent article, “There is Actually No Solution,” in which he broke down every aspect of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. I’ll save you the time, and the free paid post, and summarize what most of you
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Shalom friends, Despite publishing an impeccable article (if I do say so myself) on why Zohran must be defeated, he handily won. Hindsight isn’t necessary to see that Cuomo was always a flawed candidate who relied far too much on voters rejecting Zohran’s radicalism rather than voting for
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Shalom, I don’t live in New York City and never plan on doing so. Aside from the cockroaches the size of rats and rats the size of cats, New York City remains an overly romanticized city done so to cope with how expensive it is to have both as
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A reaction is visceral and emotionally driven; it is a wildfire ready to be sparked by a single ember. A response, on the other hand, is logical and strategic.
Academia
This is a guest essay from Z.E. Silver. Follow him on Substack. If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for my own self [only], what am I? And if not now, when? - Pirkei Avot 1:14 Shalom, But if I am
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The recent Pew Research Center study that found that 24 percent of Jews who were raised Jewish no longer identify as such. As someone raised in a Conservative Jewish household, and still identifies as a Conservative Jew, I’ve experienced this particular issue for far longer than the greater Jewish
Academia
Shalom Chaverim! The term “Orientalism” is mostly associated with the infamous Columbia professor Edward Said, and became a bedrock of collegiate international relations curriculum. What many might not know is that prior to Said loading the term, Oriental Studies was a rather innocuous pursuit, no different than that of any
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Shalom Chaverim - Someone must have invented a time machine because I feel like I’m back in 2017. That’s the only way to describe what it was like when, earlier this week, Elon Musk created an early Rorschach Test less than 24 hours into Trump’s second term.
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Since October 7, 2023, the vernacular of “pro-Israel,” “anti-Israel,” “pro-Palestine” and more have flooded the discourse as a way to categorize everyone into distinct buckets. While it’s not abnormal for people to find themselves forced to identify as some overarching label that suffocates important subtleties, there is a unique