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A new study came out today on a topic that has been all too ignored in the religious Zionist and Modern Orthodox communities, communities that should...
A month ago, my wife and I spent Shabbat in a charming hotel in Yafo. Searching for an inspiring place to daven (pray) on Friday night, we were...
Sometimes, all it takes to change the world is one person. You have the power. One person. Maimonides says, that a person should always look at the...
I write as an Ethiopian Jewish Israeli American a member of an ancient Black Jewish community whose bond to the Jewish people predates modern...
An Israeli documentary, Deep Inside Iran, adds an additional layer of substance and understanding to Israel’s 12-day war with Iran last June. Now...
A covenant is not union. It is sustained distinction under contact. The Problem of Closeness There is a classical question in mathematics known as the...
(Season Two continues) This week’s parsha, תְּצַוֶּה, does something unusual. Moshe’s name disappears. For the only time from his birth...
In recent years, the shortage of teachers in Israel has moved beyond a localized systemic glitch to become a palpable catastrophe. Like many Western...
Aharon Barak – a world-renowned legal scholar, a fearless Attorney General who fought public corruption, and a groundbreaking Supreme Court justice...
Athens on a Sunday night. Street after street, Palestine flags spray-painted on the walls. Half a block from my hotel, I stumble into Palestina Meze...
Language influences the way we relate to each other and ultimately defines our culture. When it comes to words of affection, English is missing out....
Throughout the Scroll of Esther, Mordechai (Mordecai) — the lead male hero of the story — is known by the name Mordechai. The Talmud...
Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s remarks were domestic politics, not government strategy. The EU is Israel’s main trade partner and a decisive...
In June 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before cameras and declared that Israel would become a “global communications centre.” The...
Designing Editorial Freedom in the Age of AI Everything began one afternoon, not with a breakthrough, but with a quiet realisation. I had just...
I’ve been listening to an audiobook called The Man Who Stopped the Sultan, a vivid chronicle of the 15th‑century struggles within the various...
וְאַתָּ֗ה תְּדַבֵּר֙ אֶל־כׇּל־חַכְמֵי־לֵ֔ב אֲשֶׁ֥ר מִלֵּאתִ֖יו ר֣וּחַ חׇכְמָ֑ה...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a scheduled vote in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on February 22, 2026. The vote would have...
This coming Sabbath in the Jewish calendar is known as Shabbat Zachor, the Sabbath of Remembering. It is the Sabbath that precedes the holiday of...
If Europe made itself the future, what followed was not immediate conquest, but something subtler. When sequence becomes hierarchy, hierarchy begins...
The weekend briefing that looks, at first blush, like dry diplomatic housekeeping is actually a historic indictment of the government: Benjamin...
The controversy surrounding Australia’s Home Affairs Minister, Tony Burke’s handling of national security raises an awkward question: are we...
Co-authored by Dr. Guila Benchimol and Dr. Alissa Ackerman TW; CW: This post discusses sexual violence. Consuming recent media coverage about sexual...
Trump will start winning again when he stops deferring to the Obama types in his Administration. The “it’s bad for the U.S. to win outright”...
As part of the 37th Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, I recently watched a film that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about: Eran Riklis’s...
“One must drink on Purim until one can’t distinguish between ‘Curse Haman’ and ‘Bless Mordecai’.” – Megillah, 7B, cited in Shulchan...
שִׁמְעוֹן הַצַּדִּיק הָיָה מִשְּׁיָרֵי כְנֶסֶת הַגְּדוֹלָה. הוּא הָיָה אוֹמֵר,...
There is a story in Masechet Brachot about Rabban Gamliel who opened a Yeshiva after being temporarily removed as head of the Sanhedrin. He had one...
The Ontological Bubble of Israeli Society Through the Lens of a New Survey Research conducted by the Dor Moriah Analytical Center in partnership with...
“Surviving 738 Days in the Tunnels of Gaza” was the title of a presentation given in the United States on Sunday by Yosef Chaim Ohana. It was a...
“Perhaps It Was Precisely for This Kind of Moment That You Have Risen to Your Position of Authority!” (Esther 4:14) Purim is approaching, and at...
Mobs of keffiyeh-wearing undergraduates swarming and bullying Jewish students on US college campuses have given the world an astounding glimpse into...
Is it true that Tucker Carlson was harassed, attacked and mauled by Jewish Israeli demons in Ben Gurion Airport, leaving him with bleeding wounds all...
I recently had a sudden need to know who buried my mother. Not the gravediggers, not even the rabbi. Rather I wanted to know who were the last women...
Double Standards: Somaliland and Northern Cyprus in Turkey’s Geopolitical Strategy The cases of Somaliland and Northern Cyprus (TRNC) illustrate the...
The authority of the United Nations does not come from its buildings in New York or Geneva. It comes from trust. Trust that those appointed to defend...
Just before Shabbat, on my recent trip to Israel, I received a message on Facebook from a man I’d never met. It arrived without preamble, without...
Joshua does not begin with conquest. It begins with a command. “Be strong and courageous.” The phrase is repeated insistently. Before a single...
Artificial intelligence keeps asking Judaism an old question in a new way: Who gets to answer? Last year, I wrote about whether AI might someday...
Dr. Mohamed Chtatou states that the hamsa (five-fingered hand symbol) constitutes perhaps the most visible shared protective symbol, used by both...
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Libya is currently gripped by a profound psychological and strategic shift. As of late February 2026, the nation finds itself suspended between the...
The Jewish Federation of Annapolis & the Chesapeake was proud to be one of the co-sponsors the first-ever Anne Arundel County Standing Together...
When read chronologically rather than rhetorically, a coherent strategic architecture becomes visible: deny permissive hemispheric nodes to rival...
“Sixty years with an unjust imam is better than one night without a sultan,” Ibn Taymiyya wrote in the early 14th century, during the height of...
The São Paulo State Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP-SP) has filed a collective moral damages lawsuit against the São Paulo State Teachers’ Union...
To my pleasant surprise, Robert Kraft, billionaire owner of the New England Patriots and founder of the Blue Square Alliance, sent me the following...
As debate over Iran’s political future resurfaces with renewed urgency, one name has steadily moved to the centre of national and diaspora...
Some landscapes reveal themselves only to the patient heart, and Tel Socho is one such place: a small hill in the Elah Valley where heaven seems to...
At the end of Parshat Tetzave, we learn about the Incense Altar (Mizbeach Miktar Ketoret) also known as the Golden Altar (Mizbeach HaZahav) and the...
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