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A lifelong Democrat reflects on the hardest box he’s ever checked. I wasn’t expecting Boy George to play any role in a deeply personal political...
Last Friday a Turkish worshipper tried to enter the Al Aqsa compound for prayers. An officer stopped him and said, in English, “Turkish, it’s...
For many high school graduates in the diaspora, spending a gap year learning in Israel can be one of the most formative experiences of this stage of...
As a Hollywood producer, I’ve spent much of my career around artists, actors, musicians, and storytellers. One thing I’ve learned is that there...
There are excellent reasons to oppose Donald Trump, and there are excellent reasons to oppose Benjamin Netanyahu. Neither case requires Adolf Hitler,...
Some of my Jewish friends voted for Abdul El-Sayed. He may be my next senator. I feel betrayed–and scared for Israel. On election morning, I ran...
TL;DR: The Gaza genocide debate often begins after the crucial question has already been skipped. Death, deprivation and destruction can be evidence...
Islam Needs Reform, and Muslims Must Be Brave Enough to Say It I am not calling for the destruction of Islam. I am calling for its rescue from those...
“And it is He (God) who has made you [humans] viceroys (khala’ifa) upon the earth; and has raised some of you above others in degrees [of wealth,...
Originally, the people of Israel gave the world the foundations of education and culture, an approach toward people, society, and nature. Abraham...
“Chanoch l’na’ar al pi darko – Educate a child according to their way.” Every Jewish parent knows this verse. We quote it in speeches. We...
Washington’s most enduring and destructive foreign policy pathology is wishful thinking. For decades, the American foreign policy establishment has...
The Unraveling of US Regional Primacy The announcement that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan have signed a mutual defense pact marks a watershed...
This morning I was sitting on my mirpeset with a cup of coffee, replaying a conversation I had with my son the night before. It started with what...
In early August, at the Mauthausen memorial in Austria, a young Jewish woman confronted a touring school group. One student wore a “Free...
Europe grants its own distant sovereignties history, constitutional complexity and democratic nuance. The Jewish state receives one word: colonial. On...
III. The Synagogue My Grandfather Knew “A synagogue is not a building. It is a room in which a community agrees, weekly, to be addressed.” On the...
The Architecture of Hatred Incubators of hatred do not operate like factories where raw material enters at one end and a terrorist emerges at the...
On March 5, 2026, I was crossing the street in San Francisco wearing my kippah when a car drove into the crosswalk and yelled “Free Palestine” at...
Follow your inner voice. When I was a little girl, we lived on the South Side of Chicago in a modest (white box) home. My parents hired a designer....
Democracy, Disagreement and the Authoritarian Temptation A troubling paradox now exists in many Western democracies. Never before has there been so...
Wan-I Yang is a Taiwanese professor at the Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University. TRANSCENDENCE AND IMMANENCE A Reflection Starting...
Objectivism, the individual-centric philosophy of Ayn Rand, often gets a bad rap for being cold and heartless. In his National Review article,...
AI may not be erasing human uniqueness. It may be revealing that we have been looking for it in the wrong place. More than two thousand years before...
The story of Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, is often framed in terms of land: purchasing it, building towns and...
What happens when a terrorist group no longer defends its atrocities but simply denies they ever happened—and much of the world is willing to look...
Discernment in the Age of Artificial Reason What the Torah, the Qur’an and the Prophets Teach Us About AI, Conscience and True Judgement There is a...
Two bus loads of cheder children drove into a closed military zone on the Lebanese border, and the soldiers had to go get them I was on the Lebanese...
It seems every conversation about activism defaults to reaching “the youth,” while nobody focuses on the older demographic. That needs to change....
Israel and Somaliland differ sharply in scale, wealth, culture, and international status, yet their partnership rests on a clear exchange: Israel...
When Summer Camp Teaches War: Lebanon Cannot Build Peace by Preparing Children for the Next Conflict A warning from history about youth...
The Jewish people have a message to the world about the antisemitic vitriol and violence confronting us. We aren’t worried about what will happen to...
How colors can illuminate our choices as we step into the New Year One afternoon, walking alone through Forest Park near my home in Portland, Oregon,...
Recently, we were lucky to attend a very nice Shabbat gathering on Friday evening, almost literally at the serene Baltic shore of Jurmala in Latvia,...
Like much of the rest of the planet, I went to see the massively hyped new adaptation of The Odyssey. I have my own reservations about the film,...
The Jerusalem Post’s front-page coverage of the recent deadly terrorist attack on hikers in the Shomron was outrageous. That week saw a spate of...
A review of FEC and IRS filings, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) convention votes, and the fiscal shells behind the 2024 campus protests...
Re’eh does not promise an easier Jewish life. It asks what our freedom is producing, and what kind of country our choices are creating. I have just...
Rich Christians, Productive Christians, and the Battle over Biblical Economics Two book titles captured a major evangelical argument about poverty and...
When Korach questioned Moses’ and Aaron’s authority (Num. 16:3), even though it is possible to see his claim as a reasonable appeal for a more...
The issue is not merely whether artificial intelligence produces inaccurate language. It is who holds the authority and expertise to verify, correct...
Israel was once the undisputed world leader in preventing blindness. Between 1999 and 2010, rates of preventable blindness were slashed by more than...
I have loved Israel for as long as I can remember. Not because I believe it is a perfect country, but because it is an extraordinary one. One of the...
In last week’s Baltimore Jewish Times on-line poll, the platform’s readership were asked by the editor, “Do you feel unsafe wearing Jewish...
Manchester, home to Britain’s second largest Jewish community of around 35,000 people, is home to the Manchester Jewish Museum. Located on Cheetham...
The experience of descendants of Crypto-Jews, or Benei Anusim, varies from person to person. Like most things in life, these experiences exist along a...
On Friday nights, my sons and I sometimes go to the farmers market in Monrovia. It is not the most traditional way to welcome Shabbat, but it has its...
The Torah refers to the necessity of having one central place of worship for the Jewish people. It was intended to be at the Beit Hamikdash in...
The kosher community has recently suffered several huge losses. At 3:56 a.m. on Tuesday, July 28, a fire devastated the Agri Star Meat & Poultry...
I recently reconnected with an out-of-town friend. “How are you?” I asked. “I’m good, Rabbi. All my problems today are manageable problems.”...
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