Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

Isn’t everyone’s life a mass of contradictions?

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war cool. As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.