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Friday afternoon at the corner grocery store in Jerusalem

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Israel’s Goodness the World Refuses to See

Sabine Sterk

Barghouti Is a Loaded Gun Israel Cannot Ignore

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Hope is my toxic trait

Talyah Ginsberg

2 + 2 = 5 Comes to Canberra

Shannon Cummings

Saudi Arabia: A New Regional Balance

Gilles Touboul

After Gaza: Israel’s Moment to Learn or Repeat History

Victor Satya

When the university is hopeless and stupid, what is left?

Goldie Warshawsky Klugman

Double Exposure

Ab Boskany

U.S. Pushes Ahead with ISF for Gaza, with Muslim Nations in Focus

Junaid Qaiser

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Julian Schvindlerman

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Shlomo Pereira

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Pinny Arnon

Abraham Stands. Joseph Keeps Standing

Tim Orr

Wait What? 46% of All IDF Exemptions Go to “Secular” Israelis?

Yosef Eitan

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William Hamilton

Wasting Courage… Providence remains

Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

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Gregory Lyakhov

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Elliot Timothy

Hamas is operating in Europe and authorities must take action

Giovanni Giacalone

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Yair Marton

Beware Those Who Denounce Antisemitism

Naya Lekht

How Music Brought Me Closer to Israel

Penny Philips

Peace Anxiety: Why Israelis Flinch at the Word ‘Peace’

Dan Chazan

Parshah through the Mediator’s Lens: Toldot

Ari Sliffman

Where Are Israel’s Shepherds to Save Us from the Wolves?

Richard Diamond

Deception

Nitzan Bergman

Finding My Voice: My Journey to Becoming a Hadassah President

Stacey R. Dorenfeld

Emigration? It’s Not the Missiles

Daniel Orenstein

Arab politics and UN consensus paralysis erases Israel from Mediterranean map

Karin Kloosterman

Red Sea Chaos: Sudan’s War Threatens Israel’s Arc

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Into the fray: From lords to lemmings – Israel’s legal elites on the brink

Martin Sherman

October 7, Hamas attack on Israel and Bataclan massacre in 2015 are connected.

Lazar Ersh

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Junaid Qaiser

About GENERATION THETA

Chaim Meyer Scheff

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Diversity and Complementarity

Saul Paves

Circular vs. Hierarchical: Rethinking Gender Power