Author: Avi Shafran

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Purim Present

In 2003, the first day of Adar brought us an early Purim present. It wasn’t food, but rather food for thought.

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Heretics and Humility

What makes so many so certain that the current scientific orthodoxy is the final word? The answer is hubris, the monkey wrench in many a human machine.

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Unbearable

“Look… This child awaits his turn. Watch their humiliation. They are corpses, Allah be praised…”

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Hypocrisies, Imagined and Real

I hope my wife and kids don’t find out that I consider it kosher to force 16-year-old girls to work 20 hours a day.

In fact, I was shocked at myself for having said such a thing – or, at least, I would have been had I actually said it.

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Message

Painful as it is to ponder, sometimes the gravest harm is what we unwittingly visit on ourselves.

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Weapons, and Weapons

When one lacks any semblance of moral justification for one’s belligerence and lust to murder innocents, there is only benefit in having as many dead civilians as possible of one’s own to display in lieu of logic.

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Pray for the Gazan Boy

No, I’m neither a prophet nor a covert Israeli operative. Yes, it was only a day after I distributed a column taking the New York Times to task for refusing to call Hamas a...

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Terrorized Times

Does all an organization that routinely attacks innocents have to do to achieve respectability is garner the support of a population and open health clinics?

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