Writing from Jerusalem on Maimonidean Judaism, Sephardic-rooted Zionism, halakhic reform, and what it means to live by Torah now.
Topics
Maimonidean Judaism
The line of Rambam and his family. Reason, evidence, accommodation.
Religious Zionism, Reconsidered
The prophetic project of return — Sephardic root, horizontal covenant.
Halakha in the Present
Applied questions. Methodological reform. Lived law.
War and the Present Hour
Writing from Jerusalem during the war years.
AI and the Human
AI as tool, AI in war, AI and the soul.
Hebrew Bible & Israelite History
Tanakh, the long Israelite story, and what it means now.
Featured essays
- Zionism: Toward a Horizontal Covenant of Israel
- Perks of Being a Maimonidean
- Solving the Agunah Crisis
- Doña Gracia, Mother of Israel
- Rambam Was a Hasid
Latest
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