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Susan Barth

Who Owns Quantum Readiness?

Who Owns Quantum Readiness?
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Nir Ben-David

The Etrog’s Chinese Secret

The Etrog’s Chinese Secret
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Annette Poizner

When Solidarity Met Self-Determination

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Ed Gaskin

The Ineffable Name

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Kenneth Cohen

Hands Off My Palestine

Hands Off My Palestine
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Ivan Bassov

How Ed Sheeran Apologized Before Yom Kippur.

How Ed Sheeran Apologized Before Yom Kippur.
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Adi Strigl

The Danish Jewish Museum: 400 Years of Jewish History and Heritage in Denmark

The Danish Jewish Museum: 400 Years of Jewish History and Heritage in Denmark
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Jay Abramson

When my Israeli son asked me “What is Jewish?”

When my Israeli son asked me “What is Jewish?”
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Tamar Pross

What If the God You Are Defending Is Really a Golden Calf?

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Stephen Stern

The Civilian Black Box

The Civilian Black Box
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Ibrahim Mukherjee

Mehdi Pârsâ, Jacques Derrida and the Crisis of Modernity V

Mehdi Pârsâ, Jacques Derrida and the Crisis of Modernity V
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Alexandre Gilbert

When History Is Rewritten, Israel Pays the Price

When History Is Rewritten, Israel Pays the Price
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Sabine Sterk

Der jüdische Selbsthass (Jewish Self-Hatred)

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Gil Mildar

The Haredi Chazzan Who Showed Me Israel’s Future This Yom Kippur

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Elkana Bar Eitan

The Yom Kippur War

The Yom Kippur War
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Ersin Gozde

Denying settler violence does not make us better allies to Israel

Denying settler violence does not make us better allies to Israel
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Maria Golovanevskaya

As Pressure Mounts, Ed Sheeran Speaks on Gaza

Ed Sheeran speaks about Gaza — but Jewish pain cannot be an afterthought. Ed Sheeran broke his recent silence on the Israel-Palestinian conflict...

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Jacqueline Anzarut

R&AW at 58: The Mossad Connection in a Changing Security Landscape

R&AW at 58: The Mossad Connection in a Changing Security Landscape

The Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) was established on September 21, 1968, following India’s intelligence failings during the 1965 war and in...

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Vaasu Sharma

The AfD’s Rise Should Alarm Israel

Eighty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, a party accused of harboring extremists and minimizing the crimes of the Holocaust has won a stunning...

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Saurav Dutt

A Global Citizen in Albanese, But in Whose World?

Perhaps Australian journalist Latika Bourke asked the question many Australians will be thinking. As Anthony Albanese prepares to receive the Atlantic...

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Shane Shmuel

The Red Sea Map Has Changed. Western Strategy Has Not.

The Red Sea Map Has Changed. Western Strategy Has Not.

The Houthi breakthrough at Bab el-Mandeb should force Washington and its partners to reconsider an increasingly outdated Red Sea security...

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Nassir Hussein Kahin

Russia Fought Nuclear Pressure on Syria. Now It Is Doing the Same on Iran

Russia Fought Nuclear Pressure on Syria. Now It Is Doing the Same on Iran

In September 2026, the IAEA finally resolved the Assad-era Syrian nuclear case while escalating its dispute with Iran. Russia had opposed...

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Alexander Lutsenko

Did the Carousel Turn While the Warsaw Ghetto Burned?

Did the Carousel Turn While the Warsaw Ghetto Burned?

I went looking for a photograph to help me describe what “indifference” means, and I found a thirty-year argument instead. I had been writing...

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Janet Bond Brill

A Jewish Life Saved in 1941, Today We Remember

“A man named Filip came to my grandfather…he’d used the words ‘in good faith’ or ‘në besë (besa),’ which is important to us...

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Dina Greenberg

Trump and MBS at the Scorpion’s Gate – Part 2

Trump and MBS at the Scorpion’s Gate – Part 2
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William Keenan

When Statehood Is Not Enough: Somaliland’s Battle for Recognition

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Mohamed Osman

The Room at Southwick

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Vincent James Hooper

My Baby Girl and Her Baby Girl

My Baby Girl and Her Baby Girl
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Menachem Elyah Paull

Netanyahu Fears A Jewish-Arab Coalition

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Sheldon Kirshner

Security Is a Shared Interest

The war in Gaza has left enormous pain and anger across the Arab world and far beyond it. Yet only days ago, Morocco and Israel agreed to take another...

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Ahmed Jaafar

Humanity, Anger and Justice

For the last four summers, I have attended the ten day Rabbinic Torah Seminar at the Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. One hundred and seventy-five...

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Inna Serebro-Litvak

The Other Vidui

Today, on Erev Yom Kippur, I find myself thinking about a line from Ha’Azinu, the Torah portion we just read yesterday. Ha’Azinu is the song Moshe...

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Lisi Levisohn

Five Lithuanian Institutions Now Have Papilė’s Names

The evidence was published. Now the municipality, encyclopedia, heritage authorities, archive and local library have been formally asked to correct,...

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Add Recycling Jewish Souls

AI tells us that Rabbi Allen S. Maller is a retired Reform Rabbi who served for 39 years at Temple Akiba in Culver City, California. He is a prolific...

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Allen S. Maller

The Street and the Home, Part IV

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Julian Ungar-Sargon

Two Hairy Goats–Sorting Out the Images of Yom Kippur!

Two Hairy Goats–Sorting Out the Images of Yom Kippur!
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James D. Tabor

China Is Turning the Red Sea Into a New Security Front

China Is Turning the Red Sea Into a New Security Front
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Amine Ayoub

Moonlight at Ponary

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Eugene J. Levin

Unetaneh Tokef and 9-11: When life becomes real – 1

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Ed Gaskin

Connections

I’m in bed, comfortable beneath white cotton sheets and blankets. The fan spins at high speed, filling the room with a steady hum. I hold my iPhone...

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Mort Laitner

The Judaism That Refuses to Choose

The Judaism That Refuses to Choose
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Gershon Blumstein

When Opinion Becomes the Dictatorship’s Weapon

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Daniel Asai

Kapparot Where Everyone Stays Alive — Including the Chicken

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Mikhail Salita

The Nature of the Five Inuyim on Yom Kippur 5787

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Boruch Rizel

The Yom Kippur Lesson Israel Still Needs After October 7

The Yom Kippur Lesson Israel Still Needs After October 7
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Sagit Alkobi Fishman

At Least We Don’t Need Forgiveness For Inaction

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Nicholas Jagdeo

Echoes of the Past, Rituals of the Future

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Tom Livny

We are all Jews of Yom Kippur

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Deborah Danino Harkham

Why I Took a College Basketball Team to Berlin

Why I Took a College Basketball Team to Berlin
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Stacy Gallin