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Out of Babel

Alan Mairson

Do Jews and their Story have a future in the Diaspora? It depends on the Stories that drive everyone else.

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Psychotherapy's tools can't fix this problem

A few weeks ago on Substack…

… — a journalist and a practicing psychotherapist — posted this:

I’ve stumbled through more than my share of awkward and sometimes heated conversations about Gaza, Israel, and Palestine, so I was excited...

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Human history changed forever in the year ____.

by Bill Scher, July 24, 2026.

When Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan primary last week to become the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, many American Jews (e.g., me) were unsettled. Or perhaps I should say deeply troubled. Or petrifie...

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"It's time to go home."

I don’t post AI-generated content here (except images). But on a whim this morning, I opened Gemini and entered a prompt to create a short story. The result (below) dramatizes the central question of this Substack: Do Jews have a future in...

a month ago
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Alone Atop The Mountain

Mind experiment:

Take all the Jews from all over the world, and move them to an unpopulated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What might give shape to their days, their weeks, their years, their lives?

Now, imagine the...

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    I'm a freelance journalist and a former staff writer and editor at National Geographic magazine.

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