It is still a little early to finally eulogize the coalition and prepare for new elections, and yet, it is difficult to see MK Idit Silman return to the ranks after the detailed and reasoned explanation she issued for her retirement… the deal is the same deal: government in exchange for control of religion-state affairs.

Unless an alternative is found before the Knesset convenes following its recess, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will need to go. A coalition without a Knesset majority and without a safety net in the opposition cannot function.

There are a lot of possible outcomes of Silman’s move, but the most likely is an election later this year, with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid becoming interim prime minister for at least a few months.

Why is Russia failing in the information war? More importantly, does Russia really care about losing the battle over public opinion? Can this information war be defined as an asymmetric one, since only one side is interested in winning the battle?

By playing up Russian brutality and military stumbles, deftly using social media, and appealing to foreign leaders’ emotions while challenging their policies, Zelensky has steered an information offensive that has yielded greater Western arms donations and wider backing for unprecedented economic sanctions against Russia.

…it’s far too early to declare information victory. If anything, this apparent consensus—that Ukraine has won the online war—might be obscuring where battles over the invasion are really raging.

Your yearly reminder that pesach existed before plastic and tin foil and you don’t need to violate bal taschit to have pesach. Your excessive disposable covering isn’t kosher either. Oh, also dust isn’t chametz.

Like, encouraging people to all log off phones, zoom, driving etc on pesach will create a bigger impact, and maybe not stick it to families that are poorer, add extra labor that often falls on women etc

There’s absolutely no reason anybody needs to use single-use disposable plastic items on Pesach. Even if you don’t have the financial wherewithal to buy Pesachdik dishes etc., compostable alternatives exist and cost only slightly more than plastic.

[This is] the earliest Israelite inscription discovered to date. If that were not sufficient, those who deciphered the inscription – 40 ancient proto-Sinaitic letters on a lead sheet that was subsequently folded – identified the word “YHW,” which is a clear representation of the Hebrew God.

If the proposed reading is sustained, this would clearly demonstrate that already in the 13th or 12th centuries BCE, in the period of Raamses II and Merneptah, the new settlers of the Samaria region worshiped YHWH. These were the settlers whom Merneptah called “Israel” — probably because they called themselves “Israel.” If these Israelites can be shown to have worshiped YHWH already in the 13th or 12th century BCE, the link between the “nomads of YHWH” in Raamses’ list and the Israelites will become hard to deny.

This early appearance of God’s name has implications for theories about how and when the Bible was written.

“This is a problem for the Documentary Hypothesis that states that the Bible was composed in different sections, hundreds of years apart and later redacted,” Stripling explained.

We have not yet learnt quite how to resolve these sorts of dilemmas. Maybe we never will. But one thing’s for sure: the answer doesn’t involve giving CK more Grammys.

Put simply, being “canceled” doesn’t actually happen. C.K. just won a major award. Those who claimed to be “canceled” continue to do pretty well for themselves, albeit in slightly different circles now.

There’s a lot of funny stuff on the album but it’s impossible not to listen to him in a different way than before. He tries to move past the sexual stuff right at the top, but it’s pat, and all it does is remind me that he never had a public atonement. That’s obviously a choice.

Researchers have found that people who meet the criteria for the newly established prolonged grief disorder are at greater risk of poor physical health, lower quality of life, and even suicide… We need tools that help identify who may need specialized treatment.

The cliché that everyone grieves in his or her way is assuredly true. That the psychiatric establishment has now pathologized prolonged grief is not only stigmatizing, but also imperious.

…as is often the case with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM — the publication that used to consider being gay a disorder — there is ample room here to question what is and is not a psychiatric condition. In expanding its criteria over the years for conditions like behavioral addictions and trauma, the publication has spurred debate over overdiagnosis…