The normalization of Babylon, however, forces us to ask ourselves how we start in our modern lives to look for something beyond the things that drive us crazy. Our new situation is an exile ...

Sennacherib’s policy of forced exile and assimilation directly caused the loss of the ten tribes to the Jewish people. Less than a hundred years later, the Jews were dealt another terrible blow. This ...

Babylon has resonated in Judeo-Christian culture for centuries. The books of the Old Testament recount the exile of the Jews to Babylon following the sack of Jerusalem, by whose waters they “sat ...

And so it goes, the cycle of exile and remembrance, uprooting and rerooting. With the Passover holiday, those free can celebrate their freedom, and those who are rooted, their rootedness. Yet at the ...