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Rami Dabbas Acquitted After 11 Months in Prison

Acquitted After 11 Months: Jordanian Court Closes the Case Against Political Analyst Rami Dabbas Rami Dabbas drew widespread attention across social...

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Rami al dabbas

Ben Gvir’s Death Penalty Dream Is Israel’s Nightmare

Ben Gvir’s Death Penalty Dream Is Israel’s Nightmare

Last week, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir once again provoked global recriminations when he posted an AI-generated...

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Michael Zoosman

The Start Of A Messianic Hope For A Peaceful World

The three monotheistic Prophet Abraham religions, all have important information about the evil end of the ‘end of the old world; and the great...

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Allen S. Maller

The Dodo Bird, the Kanaani Cat, and the Jewish Question of What Must Be Saved

The Dodo Bird, the Kanaani Cat, and the Jewish Question of What Must Be Saved

There are moments in history when humanity realizes too late that something irreplaceable has disappeared. The Dodo bird became one of those moments....

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Mikhail Salita

According to the Rules of the Russian Language

According to the Rules of the Russian Language

Note: This article is a translation of my Russian-language piece «Согласно правилам русского языка» (“According to...

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Ivan Bassov

True Friendship Lives Beyond Time and Space

True Friendship Lives Beyond Time and Space (Reflection on the Special Haftorah to Torah Portion Bamidbar) True friendship is caring for one’s...

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Michel M.j. Shore

When History Gets Turned Upside Down

When History Gets Turned Upside Down

There is a persistent temptation to measure conflicts in missiles, troop movements, and territorial gains. But in the long struggle surrounding Israel...

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Sabine Sterk

Israel, the Island

In September 2025, a diplomat from Tuvalu raised a small placard against the creation of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly....

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Gil Mildar

Israel’s Iraq Gambit: Tehran’s Uranium Encircled

Israel’s Iraq Gambit: Tehran’s Uranium Encircled

The Wall Street Journal investigation into Israel’s secret forward base in Iraq’s western desert offers more than a wartime footnote. It supplies...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Securely In Your Land

It is interesting to note that both in Parshat Behar and in Parshat Bechkotai, we have the verse, וישבתם לבטח בארצכם, “And you shall...

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Kenneth Cohen

The Riga Witness, the Vilnius Defendant

For five years, I researched and documented the history and legacy of the Baltic Holocaust while producing my documentary Baltic Truth, now available...

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Eugene J. Levin

Kurds and Jews Stand Together in London

Kurds and Jews Stand Together in London

Kurds and Jews in London: From a Protest Rally to a Political and Humanitarian Message Against Hatred, Extremism, and Oppression On Sunday, 10 May...

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Ashtyako Poorkarim

When and Why We Question

When and Why We Question

Avraham’s Silence and Protest – Faith, Justice, and Moral Courage This essay is one of the winning submissions to the Rabbi Sacks Essay Contest....

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Jonathan Sacks

Will OPEC Collapse?

The UAE’s exit from OPEC on May 1 was not a tantrum. It was a strategic calculation years in the making. Abu Dhabi had invested $150 billion...

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Vincent James Hooper

The Most Dangerous Man in Israel / The Dangers Ahead for Israel

Every election in Israel seems to be the most important. We are a small country and the government that forms has direct impact on the lives of all of...

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Lonny Baskin

Israel–Hezbollah: FPV Killer Drones

A New Strategic Constraint and an Iranian Center of Gravity An Asymmetrical War Recentered on Proximity The confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah...

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Francis Moritz

Rededicating America’s Greatness by Destroying the Islamic Republic

It pains me to see terms of what may be an end to the current and essential war against the Islamic Republic of Iran that may end up leaving the...

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Marziyeh Amirizadeh

Humpty Dumpty was never meant to be a statesman. He was meant to be a warning.

Before the unveiling, the figure was blessed. Pastor Mark Burns — Trump’s longtime spiritual adviser and a candidate for Congress in South...

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Paul Mendlowitz

Back to the sources… back to the future

I recently attended a healthcare conference in Washington, DC. It was the first time back in my hometown in many years. No surprise, much has changed....

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Nigel A. Spier

The Soviet Court That Never Left

The Soviet Court That Never Left

Lithuania’s free-speech performance collapses when Facebook posts and YouTube videos become state files. Lithuania left the Soviet Union in 1990....

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Feeling Like Freud at the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Feeling Like Freud at the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Were the mental health crises I witnessed in American Jewish teenagers a symptom of a political destabilization already on its way? For many years I...

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Rich Kirschen

That sting in the tail for ‘balance’ merely adds fuel to the fire of Jew-hate

Have you noticed how the Golders Green stabbings seem to have been a tipping point in the perception of antisemitism in the UK. Although all those...

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Jan Shure

Dear Bnei Akiva Summer-Camp Tzevet:

Bnei Akiva is tucked into the very folds of my DNA. It is a mosaic of late-night conversations, lifelong friendships, and a value system that helped...

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Shachar ben-ami

‘Giant’ and Criticism of Israel

I was on my way to see the play Giant when an LED-light-clad advertising trucks rolled by, as they are wont to do on Broadway and Times Square. The...

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Nathaniel weintraub

Stronger Than Commandment: A Mother’s Day Letter

I know not to ask you how you are this Mother’s Day. Or any other day. Because every day, all year long, for eternity, you remain Hersh’s mother....

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Nina L. Kampler

Featured Post

Featured Post

For 17 years, I had the privilege of working alongside – and learning from – Abe Foxman, one of the great Jewish leaders of our time.  To almost...

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Laura Kam

Until This Day: My Mother’s Matzevah

Until This Day: Reflections at My Mother’s Matzevah Last week, our family gathered at Agecroft Beis Hachayim in Manchester to set the matzevah for...

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Jonathan guttentag

The Anti Israel Horseshoe Theory: How Israel is Reshaping the 2026 Midterms

The Anti Israel Horseshoe Theory: How Israel is Reshaping the 2026 Midterms

For decades, support for Israel was one of the few issues that united Republicans and Democrats in Washington. Liberals saw Israel as a democratic...

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Ethan Kushner

The Weight and Light of Being Jewish

I can still remember what it felt like to notice, for the first time, that being Jewish made me different. It was never a single moment, but a series...

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Ariel berger

There Is No Such Thing as a Regular Israeli Family

In the comfortable boardrooms and lecture halls of the West, a dangerous, slanderous narrative has taken root: the idea that Israel is a European...

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Avi alpert

Were there haredi yeshivas during our 40 years in the desert? (Bamidbar)

Do they even bother to read Parshat Bamidbar in haredi yeshivot and synagogues? If so, do they pay attention to what is being read? The verse...

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J.j Gross

Devotion 22 — Sh’ma and the Stranger

Listening Beyond Familiar Voices “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “You shall love the stranger, for...

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Ed Gaskin

Out of Sync

Out of Sync

It’s happening again this year — that odd Jewish calendar quirk where the Torah readings in Israel and the diaspora fall out of sync. This year,...

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Michael Feldstein

The World’s Favorite Existential Question: Should Israel Exist?

Today, there is an extraordinary global habit in which millions who would never dream of questioning Japan, Brazil, or Belgium casually gather to...

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Victor Satya

A Soldier’s Mother

A Soldier’s Mother

It has been two months since I joined the ranks of IDF mothers, specifically combat mothers. I am still new, still training to be the supportive role...

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Bracha Goldstein

Meet Dr. Miriam Adelson, a Physician, Philanthropist and Defender of Israel

I recently had the honor of meeting Dr. Miriam Adelson at the first annual “Israel Hayom Summit’ in NYC a few months ago. Miriam is an...

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Joseph scutts

Judaism and the Modern World – Engaging Without Losing Identity

Judaism and the Modern World – Engaging Without Losing Identity

This essay is one of the winning submissions to the Rabbi Sacks Essay Contest. Drawing on the teachings and writings of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks...

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Jonathan Sacks

Mother love. . .and light

It’s Friday, just before Mother’s Day, and I am readying to light Shabbos candles. And an image shared by a friend comes to me, a long line of...

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Vicki Cabot

Is God in a Symbiotic Relationship with Us?

We, each of us, needs God. Without Him, we simply wouldn’t exist in any way whatever. Anyone who believes that God created mankind accepts that...

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Joel Cohen

Israel’s Economic Breakdown After Months of Fighting

Israel’s Economic Breakdown After Months of Fighting

Somewhere between the missile alerts and the diplomatic communiqués, Israel’s economic story has gone largely untold. Not the macroeconomic...

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Farwa imtiaz

What the Abraham Accords Mean for India

What the Abraham Accords Mean for India

When the Abraham Accords were signed in 2020, the global conversation predictably fixated on Israel and the Arab states directly involved. The...

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Ankit gawande

Europe Was Born When Evil Was Defeated, Not Invited to the Table

Europe Day is the story of a continent whose wars turned destruction into order, enmity into partnership, and coal and steel into peace. That is why...

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Shay Gal

Sightseeing Immersions in the Caribbean: Into the Wild Heart of OYA

Sightseeing Immersions in the Caribbean: Into the Wild Heart of OYA

Photo Credit: Noam Bedein | Travel Photojournalist & Wellness Tourism Specialist A field journal from the Dominican Republic’s north coast The...

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Noam Bedein

We Sounded Like the Setup to a Joke

Instead, we became the answer to one another’s prayers. Three widows, five divorcees, and a single woman walked into a bar. At least, that’s how...

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Chava kadoche

The world has achieved increased clarity

Clarity is very important. When we see things clearly, then we can deal with them. We see what needs to be improved. On numerous levels, things are...

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Yoseph Janowski

From the Temple Mount to the Alamo: Leadership Across 7,000 Miles

Last week, a new leadership cohort of 55 gathered at The Alamo in San Antonio to begin their journeys devoted to civic and community leadership.  The...

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Winslow Swart

What it means to be a Jew in Britain today

The British Jewish community has become understandably edgy about the spate of antisemitic attacks in recent months. This edginess is now spilling...

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Harold Behr

The case for a permanent U.S. base in Israel

The case for a permanent U.S. base in Israel

Reports now circulating in the International circuit and picked up by Israeli press suggest that Washington is considering a long-term military...

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Bepi Pezzulli

Applying Jewish Values Can Help Save Our Imperiled Planet

First, let us consider why the world needs saving. Recently, there have been rising temperatures, melting ice caps, intensifying wildfires,...

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Richard H. Schwartz

Portugal’s Antisemitic Surge: RASI 2025 Sounds the Alarm

Portugal’s Antisemitic Surge: RASI 2025 Sounds the Alarm

As Portugal’s annual internal security report – the Relatório Anual de Segurança Interna, or RASI 2025 – lands on desks in Lisbon, it paints a...

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Sofia Afonso Ferreira