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Where Thresholds Meet

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James H. Stein

How the West’s $57 Billion Bailout Is Funding Egypt’s Next Disaster

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Amine Ayoub

‘Nuremberg,’ the ‘Idiots Guide to Genocide,’ that everyone should see

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Jan Shure

Leadership and Responsibility

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Claire R. Bright

From New York: Without international partners, science will fall short

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Michael Waxman-Lenz

Reconnecting – Parashat Va-yishlah 5786

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David Lerner

Israel: Never a Vacation; Always a Trip (Part I of 3)

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Ruth Kaplan

Who needs a state commission of inquiry?

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Lonny Baskin

Israel’s Death Penalty Bill and Lapel Pin Glorify Killing and Sanctify Revenge

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Michael Zoosman

The Court Is Wrong: Antizionism Is Discriminatory

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Rona Kaufman

The MOOPs take the Shomron

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Gary Epstein

About Meir Kahane, Kahanism, Ben Gvir and Bibi-ism

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Ron Kronish

Tragedy to Resilience to Remembrance to Victory: Israel Reaches Out

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Carrie Hart

“There Has Never Been a State Named ‘Palestine'”

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Mohamed Saad Khiralla

An Antizionist Chanuka Party

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Sarede Rachel Switzer

Iran’s Secret Brotherhood Cash Highway

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

WindowDressing: On the Swift, Strange Rise of Bad Ideas

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Peter Himmelman

The Clientele

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Ivan Bassov

Israel, Kurdistan: Act Before the Map Sets

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Ab Boskany

Before You Build Colonies on Mars, Elon Musk, Come Visit the One in Jerusalem

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Shmuel Legesse

WTF is a Keffiyeh

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Bassem Eid

The Silence on Arab Colonialism

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Monique Dietvorst

Featured Post

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Judy Mars Kupchan

Compromise as Inevitably Patronizing?

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Harriet Gimpel

Freedom, Mastery, and Joseph: Whom Do You Serve?

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Todd Berman

The Future of Jewish Peoplehood: Without Its Future

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Karen Klein

Hitler Marriages and Happy Places

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Leigh Hartzman

Chanukah’s Forgotten War

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Jonathan Lieberman

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Nathan Lyons

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Ju Hyung Kim

Integrating the Israeli Diaspora into the Fabric of Israeli Society

Integrating the Israeli Diaspora into the Fabric of Israeli Society

A young researcher recently asked for my advice on her first steps in her study of Israelis abroad. She admitted she was still unsure whether to...

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Perla Aizencang-Kane

The Appearance of the Angel

The Talmud in Masechet Chullin has a difference of opinion as to what was the appearance of the angel that wrestled with Yakov. One opinion was...

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Kenneth Cohen

Parshas Vayeishev – Be Thankful for Good Directions

We live in an era of perfect navigation. We plug a destination into Waze or Google Maps, and we are told exactly where to turn, how long it will...

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Gedalia Walls

Fostering Civil Discourse: Why Makhloket Still Matters

For three years Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel disagreed. These said: The halakha is in accordance with our opinion, and these said: The halakha is...

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Mitchel Malkus

Why Antisemitism Cannot Solve Antizionism

Over the past several decades, Jewish communities worldwide have faced a sharp and unprecedented rise in anti-Jewish hostility—classrooms turning...

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Natasha H. Pein

My Injury From Lebanon 2006

My Injury From Lebanon 2006

I don’t think I ever wrote about my injury from Lebanon 2006. It was a long time ago… and in many ways it no longer feels relevant. Thank God, I’m...

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Elkana Bar Eitan

The Caribbean Island that Sheltered Jews

ALACHUA, FL.—The Spanish Civil War of 1936, followed shortly by the outbreak of World War II, forced hundreds of European artists and intellectuals...

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Vailma Roca Fernandez

Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel — Part XXVI

Legal Identity, Shared Sovereignty, and the Foundations of Equal Belonging Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel examines how...

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Ed Gaskin

The New York Times And Reform Zionism

The New York Times is the renowned paper of record in America.  Yet it is consistently anti -Israeli .  That is a problem. Those of us who consider...

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Peter Buchsbaum

Why Israel Can No Longer Subsidize Mass Draft Evasion

Why Israel Can No Longer Subsidize Mass Draft Evasion

The numbers are no longer in dispute: These gaps produce three concrete, measurable threats to Israel’s future: No one is demanding that Haredi...

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Whimsy Anderson

Lost Tribe, New Challenges: The Bnei Menashe’s Long Road Back to Israel

The recent developments in Israel concerning the Bnei Menashe community, one of the four Indian Jewish groups alongside the Cochin Jews from...

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Suraj Rajan Kadanthodu

I believe the Torah tells Jews to see themselves as a nation with a mission

Jews are a small people, and partnership can be valuable Disclaimer: What follows reflects my personal religious perspective as one Orthodox Jew. I...

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

We overcame Iran, we will overcome the draft issue

The Charedi draft issue is intensifying division and discord. But Israel defeated enemies on seven fronts. Israel will overcome the draft issue...

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Yoseph Janowski

From Qatar, with ‘love’

From Qatar, with ‘love’

From Qatar, with “love” Every once in a while, geopolitics gifts us a moment so absurd, so drenched in hypocrisy, that it becomes genuinely funny....

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Sabine Sterk

Beyond Boundaries: Frank Gehry. In Memoriam

Beyond Boundaries: Frank Gehry. In Memoriam

The Magnet of the Space: Bilbao The Guggenheim Museum building in Bilbao is a powerful magnet. There are a number of superbly unusual buildings in...

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Inna Rogatchi

Chabad Israeli Center plans a new home in the DC suburbs

Chabad Israeli Center plans a new home in the DC suburbs

ROCKVILLE, Maryland—On its website, Chabad-Lubavitch claims it opens a new synagogue every three days somewhere on the planet. That would rank...

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Larry Luxner

Tom Barrack: Seasoned Diplomat or Wannabe Philosopher?

Embed from Getty Images In his many media appearances, Tom Barrack—Washington’s ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria and Lebanon—has...

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Taha A. Lemkhir

Our Community’s Growing Betting Crisis, II

Over the past several weeks, the communal conversation around sports betting has intensified, reflecting both concern and broader recognition of...

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Larry Rothwachs

Kanaani: Observations of a Behavioral Analyst

A Preliminary Behavioral Profile of a Rare Breed Originating from a Natural Hybrid between Felis lybica and Israeli Feral Cats Abstract This...

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Mikhail Salita

Three Fixations, Two Political Peoples, One Dismantling of Law

What follows is an attempt to name a shared political geometry that has become visible across Israel, the United States, and parts of Europe. The...

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig