Vayigash 5776

Manju Das was quite possibly the richest housemaid in the world at one point, with close to two million dollars in her bank account. Today she lives in a hut, her body wracked in pain because she can’t afford any…

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Vayeshev 5776

Of all the tens of thousands of emails being released from Hillary Clinton’s private email account, the one I find most interesting has two words in the subject line: Gefilte Fish. While the subject line of the email Hillary sent…

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Vayishlach 5776

The fifteen passenger van was dented, rusted, and filled with benches covered with industrial strength vinyl. For four years that canary yellow van conveyed me to school, about twenty minutes from my house, and deposited me back home again in…

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Vayeitzei 5776

It was business as usual for a man we’ll call David (name changed upon request), and as a large shoe manufacturer and wholesaler, today that meant going down to the port in south Tel Aviv to inspect a container of…

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Toldos 5776

It was only after Kevin McNally got in his car and switched on his Uber app that he saw the words that would upend his life; “You’ve been deactivated.” Kevin had been driving for Uber for the last seven months,…

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