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Benjamin Netanyahu And October 7

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Sheldon Kirshner

Andy Byron, Negative Speech, and the Laws of Repentance

yesterday 7

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Michael Feldstein

Zohran Mamdani’s Selective Outrage: A Disturbing Double Standard

yesterday 7

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Seth Eisenberg

The Similarities Between the Epstein Files and Nixon’s Watergate

yesterday 7

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Berl Falbaum

Nurturing Emotional Growth

yesterday 6

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Lazer Gurkow

Military Chaplains

yesterday 6

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Israel Drazin

Mi Neged Mi?

yesterday 6

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Judy Halper

Matot-Masei: Wrestling With Tough Questions

yesterday 6

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Ben Lazarus

Laurent de Sutter Interview | Alex Gilbert #286

yesterday 6

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Alexandre Gilbert

It’s Time to Reactivate the Oslo Accords

yesterday 6

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Shaike Komornik

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Two weeks from now, on the Hebrew calendar, will mark twenty years since one of the most divisive and painful chapters in modern Israeli history:...

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Alan Haber

The October 7 government has abandoned our security, and Gantz is always there to hand them a ladder to climb down

The October 7 government has abandoned our security, and Gantz is always there to hand them a ladder to climb down

When Netanyahu sacrifices IDF soldiers to cling to power, and Gantz offers him a lifeline under the guise of fake statesmanship, the result is a...

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Shimon Sheves

What If Neuralink Could Hack Consciousness Like DMT and Rewrite Reality at Will?

Imagine a future where Neuralink doesn’t just let you type emails with your thoughts or move a cursor across a screen – it hacks your mind as...

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Vincent James Hooper

Yehi Ohr and Unfolding the Name of 42

בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.וְהָאָרֶץ הָיְתָה...

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Pink confetti and yellow butterflies and fiercely living every moment

When the doctors told Laura Ben-David her illness was terminal, she didn’t retreat from life. She didn’t shut down. She leaned in — with grace,...

previous day 10

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The Air India Crash

As I understand it, the latest report is that investigators are looking at the possibility that a fire in the plane’s tail might have affected...

previous day 10

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Yoseph Janowski

Bound by Borders – mitzarim, gevul, techum, s’far

In lamenting the exile of Judah after the destruction of the First Temple and how the Jews were subsequently harried by the nations of the world,...

previous day 10

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Reuven Chaim Klein

Israel and the Moving Sands of the Middle East

The recent 12-day war dealt a crippling blow to Iran, which in turn has a direct bearing on Qatar’s regional standing, and serves to underscore the...

previous day 10

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Taha A. Lemkhir

Mental meanderings of geniuses

Let’s look at the etymology (origin) of the word genius. Late 14c., “tutelary or moral spirit” who guides and governs an individual through...

previous day 8

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Adam Borowski

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“Anyone who can protest the sinful conduct of the members of his household and does not, he himself is apprehended for the sins of the members of...

previous day 20

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Eugene Korn

The Middle East’s Enlightenment: Why Secularism is the Only Path to Salvation

We must begin with an uncomfortable truth: civilization, for all its cathedrals, minarets, pyramids, and pagodas, is not built on faith. It is...

saturday 20

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Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Insights and Connections: Unpacking Donald J. Trump

The 47th President of the United States is both a complex and controversial figure. History will evaluate his imprint on our society and evaluate...

saturday 50

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Steven Windmueller

As Arab World Warms to Israel, Some Embrace Rejectionism

The Arab war against Israel started long before Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948. Zionism took off in Europe in the late 19th...

saturday 40

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Kenneth Jacobson

The Moral Failure of German Media on Israel

The Moral Failure of German Media on Israel

Something is deeply broken. What was once a solemn remembrance now feels like selective memory, and perhaps even betrayal. Germany built its...

saturday 50

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Michael Kuenne

Laurent Joly Interview | Alex Gilbert #285

Laurent Joly Interview | Alex Gilbert #285

Laurent Joly, CNRS research director and expert on Vichy France, recently became the focus of a high-profile defamation trial after an article in...

saturday 40

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Alexandre Gilbert

Tisha B’Av and Lithuania

Tisha B’Av and Lithuania

Tisha B’Av and the Ongoing Struggle Against Lithuanian Holocaust Revisionism Tisha B’Av, observed annually on the ninth day of the Jewish month of...

saturday 40

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Time for Israel’s Haredim to Make the Real Aliyah—to Brooklyn or Lakewood

 Where Hashem Provides For Real, Not The Goyim in the Knesset! Israel has become a difficult place for certain communities—especially those who...

saturday 40

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Paul Mendlowitz

A peace agreement for Gaza

Trumpian, bold and sober, frankly showing who won and who lost Dutch saying: Soft doctors make stinking wounds. 1. All terrorists lay down their...

saturday 10

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Being In-between

Being In-between

I am in-between writing poetry and writing bills. I am in-between painting and praying. My hands, right and left, Are in midair. Do they go...

saturday 40

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Hope Blecher

Syrian Violence Embroiled Israel

This week’s sectarian violence in the southwestern Syrian province of Suweida, which ended on July 18 with a ceasefire brokered by the United...

saturday 10

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Sheldon Kirshner

Bringing G-d Into Our Homes

There was a final census taken at the end of the forty years in the desert. The difference between this census and the one taken after leaving...

saturday 1

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Kenneth Cohen

Prevent the Prolonging of the War Now!

This is a message to the people responsible for the negotiations on ending the war in Gaza. It is a message to the members of the Israeli team (...

saturday 30

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Gershon Baskin

Loved, hated, respected, feared

It’s better to be feared than to be loved, if you are a small state in the Middle East. In Israel’s neighborhood, one can add hated, because that’s...

saturday 10

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Steve Kramer

War Games Part 2: Let’s Make a Deal

War Games Part 2: Let’s Make a Deal

Just one month ago, when I published my last blog post, we, the people of Israel, were being held hostage by our war-mongering leaders. We sat in...

saturday 10

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Nili Bresler

Taking it Personally

Our almost 8-year-old granddaughter breaking eggs, measuring sugar, flour, oil, pouring batter into a pan, yesterday, while I watched, asked if...

saturday 1

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Harriet Gimpel

A Broken Trust: An Educator’s Reckoning with a Post-October 7 World

For twenty years, I didn’t just work in public education; I lived it. I had the profound privilege of building my career on a foundation of equity,...

saturday 30

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Cassie Schwartz

What phobias and utopias have in common

What phobias and utopias have in common

He is a self-proclaimed anti-Zionist, rejecting the right of Jews to their homeland. He firmly rejects the notion of Israel as a Jewish state,...

saturday 30

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Yonatan Beker

Blood Is Not Belonging: On the Theft and Reinvention of Identity

In every great historical dispute, there comes a moment when language fails—not from lack of vocabulary, but from excess. Words like “native,” “...

saturday 30

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Ivan Bassov

Ah bay gezagt

My mother, a Romanian born Holocaust survivor, was one of the kindest, simplest (I thought) people I ever met. She would always find something nice...

saturday 3

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Elaine Rosenberg Miller

Jews Under Fire: A Growing Threat

The Rise of Antisemitism and Political Violence in the U.S. and Around the World In recent years, antisemitism and political violence have surged...

saturday 40

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Jeff Schindler

99 Names to Speak and One Silent Name to Love

Because they have many Gods; polytheists have many names for God; just as humans have many names for their many relatives and friends. But how can...

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Allen S. Maller

Solving the Palestinian Problem Requires Truth Not Misinformation.

Two recent articles in the Wall Street Journal need to be discussed. First is Mr. Elliot Kaufman’s July 5, 2025 “A New Palestinian Offer for Peace...

18.07.2025 40

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David S. Levine

My Faith Strengthens as My Body Weakens

My Faith Strengthens as My Body Weakens

A number of people have asked me—and I think even more have quietly wondered—what happens to your faith when you’re staring down the barrel of the...

18.07.2025 40

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Ben Lazarus

Piers Morgan Falsely Fact-Checked me on His Show about German Civilian Casualties in WWII

Recently, I participated in a televised discussion on my friend Piers Morgan’s show, where I referenced the civilian death toll caused by Allied...

18.07.2025 5

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Shmuley Boteach

Breadlines in NYC? Mamdani Exposed: Gregory Lyakhov – Viktor Frankl Podcast

Breadlines in NYC? Mamdani Exposed: Gregory Lyakhov – Viktor Frankl Podcast

Watch my latest interview with Daniel Schonbuch, where I expose the REAL danger behind Zohran Mamdani’s agenda—and how it threatens the future...

18.07.2025 40

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Gregory Lyakhov

The Torah story I’ve always avoided — and why I’m rethinking it

I didn’t want to write a d’var Torah this week. When my husband asked why I was procrastinating, I hadn’t yet put my finger on it. But the real...

18.07.2025 40

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Ruthie Hollander

Bibi repeats Shamir’s mistake

When Yitzhak Shamir was Israel’s prime minister, he supported giving Palestinians self-autonomy. When Moshe Katsav, who was then Minister of...

18.07.2025 40

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Yoseph Janowski

Can We Moderates Win in a Partisan Age? (Pinchas)

Can We Moderates Win in a Partisan Age? (Pinchas)

When extremists flourish, how can moderates make a difference? A students asked me this question a few weeks ago. I was teaching a class on...

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Mijal Bitton

The simple, objective stats prove there never was a genocide in the Gaza Strip

Don’t be naïve. Antisemites are not interested in facts or proofs. They’re busy with Jew-hatred, which is not an opinion or state of mind but...

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

The Druze-Jewish Covenant: A Unique Alliance of Fate and Destiny

In a world where the sense of belonging and identity is shaken and threatened, and where alienation and suspicion often replace solidarity and...

18.07.2025 40

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Sophy Turkea Yurman