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The other night I was invited to hear a presentation by MK Ohad Tal of Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionist Party. The audience was comprised of...
A sharper legal argument for Israel, Lebanon and the international campaign to dismantle Tehran’s proxy army. The standard defense of Hezbollah is...
The missiles may fall over Israel, but the fallout no longer remains confined to the Middle East. Since October 7, the war against Israel has...
The human body knows how to mend itself, yet it doesn’t always mean it’ll be back to how it was. The Strait of Hormuz is no different. When...
The coordinated offensive that struck Bamako and Kati on April 25, 2026, killing Malian Defense Minister Sadio Camara and effectively ending the...
As first reported in the Wall Street Journal, Qatar was alleged to have offered to “take care of” Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International...
The Bennett–Lapid partnership announced last week in Herzliya answers one question with admirable clarity: who wants Netanyahu out. It answers a far...
Recent reported attacks on Jewish individuals, including one in London, have renewed concerns about antisemitism in liberal democracies such as the...
Last week, we went to Har Herzl, Israel’s national military cemetery, to pay our respect to those who have fallen so that we may live here. Each...
I first encountered the work of Caryn Block and Yael Silverstein last summer, when I read their paper “Making the Invisible Visible: Exploring...
For many, it is an absurd question. Actually, for “experts,” it is a question not even worth discussing. Yet, it is a true story that the Jewish...
Before the Six-Day War, Israelis dug mass graves in Tel Aviv’s public parks. That detail doesn’t make it into our consciousness often enough. But...
This morning, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, north London. The two – one in his seventies and the other in his thirties – have been...
Specifications and Insurance: The Symptoms of the Shidduch Crisis I want to talk to write about something that truly hurts us all—the “Shidduch...
Tucked away in Parshat Emor’s discussion of the biblical festivals, between the mitzvot relating to Pesah and those concerning Shavuot, are two less...
The Jewish community has stood by you for years. We have supported your businesses, from The Grove to Palisades Village, and we stood with you during...
Some wars announce themselves at once. Others reveal their true meaning only after the smoke has spread from one front to another, after the funerals...
The Leader had the honor of interviewing Tom Wegner a few years ago during the beginning of our series Israel at War – he’s the Nameless One’s...
Image: Nasrin Sotoudeh, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist. Photo: Hosseinronaghi / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) From Israel to...
When is a tunnel not a tunnel? Yesterday, The Jerusalem Post reported that the IDF had destroyed what it called Hezbollah’s largest “tunnel” in...
EndJewHatred Day, which is today, April 29th, is far more than a mere day, but it is also not meant to stand alone. Honestly, one day of...
It is possible that Washington is seeking less an additional military victory than a victory by economic strangulation. In other words, stop bombing,...
How did some Jews know to leave early when the future was still unclear, and what signs are we missing today? People do not miss danger because they...
In today’s international system, one reality is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: security has returned to the center of global...
A light but instructive moment unfolded at synagogue this past Shabbat during kiddush. In addition to the standard kiddush for the congregation, a...
External danger is real; only renewed legitimacy can ensure the state can respond. Israel today faces existential threats. What is new—and more...
Iran was decisively defeated by the United States and Israel in the 40-day war that broke out on February 28. Yet the Iranian regime has not only...
The world holds its breath, wondering what will happen. Sometimes, the most powerful weapon is the quietest. War ships stand in the still waters....
The word Aveida, is used seldomly in the Torah, to describe what is to be done if someone comes across something that is lost. Perhaps most famously...
From Refuge to Hostility: Iran, Jews, and a Changing Narrative In 1942, as World War II tore across continents and dismantled entire lives, nearly a...
NATO is an organization that was built under the shadow of the beginning of the Cold War threat. In 1949, 12 countries on both sides of the Atlantic...
There is a reason we call our little island, “Great Britain.” It is a nation saturated with thousands of years of history, innovation and culture....
There is something almost painfully human about a joke that does not land well. Recently, Jimmy Kimmel told a joke about Melania Trump that fell flat....
There is much talk about how Israel promoted the idea of regime change in Iran to the Trump administration. It’s been particularly primed by a New...
Over the past years, venture capital has developed a near-obsessive relationship with AI infrastructure. Capital is pouring into foundation models,...
The old adage “a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes” was conjured in a time before social media....
Hagai Segal, a veteran journalist and former editor of Makor Rishon, recently ignited a firestorm with a sharply worded critique of American Jewry. In...
I would like to begin with a question. Why do so many Israeli Jews who identify as secular still fast on Yom Kippur, still feel a deep attachment to...
The New Shemot of Consciousness Yesterday, after programming, I started watching an online conference on AI. I listened to several presentations, and...
The academic journal Cultural Studies of Science Education, published by leading academic publisher Springer Nature, recently published an article...
Hiroshi Suzuki, the Japanese Ambassador to the UK, has shown his affection for British culture through his endearing bond with one of Britain’s most...
This week, an old quote purported to be from theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, came to mind in the face of new drone technology being used by...
There is a popular and powerful song sung in Religious Zionist circles – I myself have sung it many times with all my heart and soul – that...
My kids think I am too old for social media. They might be right. Since the war started on October 7th, I have been posting on Facebook about Israel,...
“Isn’t the Holocaust when the Jews made everyone hate them and got themselves killed?” A schoolmate remarked this casually to me during a lunch...
Source: depositphotos.com For us seniors, there is special interest in the process of aging. This is why I read with great interest the amazing...
During an interview on Bloomberg’s The Mishal Husain Show last week, Wendy Sherman, who served as deputy secretary of state in the Joe Biden...
Why understanding startup financing explains more about these negotiations than foreign policy theory If there is one meme that sums up the mistake...
Across the history of psychology, one idea appears again and again: the human psyche is not singular. It is composed of parts. This insight appears...
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is no longer merely curating art. It is attempting to pass judgment on one of the most complex and volatile conflicts...