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A Vav of Healing — The Work of Iyar

A Vav of Healing — The Work of Iyar

In the geography of time, as we move from Nisan into Iyar, we arrive at a landscape not of arrival, but of becoming. If Nisan was a sudden burst of...

yesterday 10

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Sam Cohen

Turning Fragile Ceasefires Into More Lasting Peace through IMEC Connectivity

As a fragile set of ceasefires tentatively holds across Gaza, and the wider shadow conflict between the US/Israel and Iran, a narrow but critical...

yesterday 5

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Gidon Bromberg

When Words Become Weapons

When Words Become Weapons

This week’s double parsha, Tazria–Metzora, speaks about tzaraat—an affliction that appears on the skin, on clothing, even on the walls of a...

yesterday 10

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Jeffrey Levine

A Plea to Christians on the Day After Yom HaShoah

There is an intriguing passage of scripture in the 35th chapter of Isaiah that, in my opinion, is a prophetic admonition to a people other than...

yesterday 10

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Aaron David Fruh

Antisemitism forever?

Starting in the Hellenistic period, more than 2,000 years ago, the Talmudic verse “It is known that Esau hates Jacob” has been in force. Our...

yesterday 4

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Aryeh barnea

Unpacking the Netanyahu Legacy – part 1

The Architect of Disaster: Unpacking the Netanyahu Legacy For decades, Benjamin Netanyahu presented himself as “Mr. Security”—the indispensable...

yesterday 4

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Lonny Baskin

Yom HaShoah in Uniform: A Soldier’s Response

Readers may recall that some time ago I wrote about a young reservist called David,(not his real name), who was struggling somewhat with his faith...

yesterday 6

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Jonathan Lieberman

One More Such Victory and We Are Lost: The Pyrrhic Path of the Netanyahu Cabinet

The headlines across the Israeli press this week have been nothing short of rapturous. We are told, in varying shades of hyperbole, that the Long Arm...

yesterday 4

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Fabio andre

Poetry of Hope: Nepali New Year Celebration Among Diaspora in Israel

Poetry of Hope: Nepali New Year Celebration Among Diaspora in Israel

As I sit down to write this, the air in Israel is thick with the complexities of a prolonged conflict. Yet, on April 14, 2026 (Baishakh 1, 2083), the...

yesterday 4

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Krishna Paksha Thapa

A Digital Iron Dome: Fighting Antisemitism in the Age of AI

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, inside a room filled with technologists, founders, and community leaders, one message became unmistakably clear: the...

yesterday 10

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Aaron Herman

Gulf States and Europe – Same Mistake Before WWII

Messerschmitt Bf109. Heinkel He 111. Junkers Ju 88. Junkers Stuka. These names are lost to history, except for military scholars of Second World War...

yesterday 5

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Jonathan Russo

Numbers, Waiting, and a Whispered Prayer

Numbers, Waiting, and a Whispered Prayer

Remember when medical tests came wrapped in a certain kind of mystery? You went to the lab, rolled up your sleeve, watched the vials fill, and then…...

yesterday 20

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Michael Feldstein

Reentering History: The Days of Rising

Reentering History: The Days of Rising

Yesterday we gathered in learning and in testimony for Yom HaShoah veHagevruah, the Day of Holocaust and Heroism. But that day does not stand alone....

yesterday 20

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Menachem Creditor

The Islamist Apocalypse Can’t Be Papered Over

There is a fundamental civilizational disconnect in the Islamist war waged against the non-Muslim West (kafirs). Islamists do not fight within the...

yesterday 5

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Jonathan Rosenoer

Sefira and Society

This title expresses the idea that the activity called SEFRAT HA’OMER carries greater meaning than just the process of counting the days and weeks...

yesterday 10

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David Walk

A Jewish Communal Post–Oct. 7 Verification Playbook

After October 7, Jewish communities everywhere discovered something unsettling. For decades we’ve viewed security as a physical problem. We thought...

yesterday 4

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Craig Frank

Blair tribute to ‘courageous’ Woolas, MP and minister who fought antisemitism

Three British prime ministers – Keir Starmer, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair – joined mourners on Tuesday for the funeral of Phil Woolas, a former MP...

yesterday 7

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Matthew Kalman

The Moon and the Journey Beyond

The moon has always captured the human imagination. Over the Passover holiday, astronauts broke a new record. On April 1, as we were beginning our...

yesterday 5

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Yankie denburg

Why Negotiation Cannot End a Holy War – God Doesn’t Sign the Accord

Why Negotiation Cannot End a Holy War – God Doesn’t Sign the Accord

Calling for a negotiated settlement to end the Middle East conflict at this moment in history carries roughly the same practical weight as a...

yesterday 10

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Richard Diamond

Historic Israel-Lebanon Talks Open Path Toward Lasting Peace

Historic Israel-Lebanon Talks Open Path Toward Lasting Peace

Just a few weeks ago, the idea of Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors sitting down together would have seemed far-fetched. Yet, on Tuesday, they did just...

yesterday 20

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Junaid Qaiser

Existence Without Consolation

This essay is a reflection on the limits of understanding and the absence of final consolation in human life. It is not a prescription for a happy...

yesterday 5

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Ben G. Yacobi

My Dad, Nathan Drazin, was a hero

My dad, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Drazin (1906-1976), was a brilliant man. Unlike virtually all other rabbis, he not only earned rabbinical ordination at...

yesterday 10

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Israel Drazin

The Silent Frontline of Israel’s National Trauma- Who Helps the Helpers?

“But war is something that cries,” wrote Tirza Atar in 1975, “and I cry in silence.” We have known many wars since then, but none have been...

yesterday 20

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Boaz shalgi

Lag B’Omer, Rebbi Shimon and Curing Insomnia

Lag B’Omer, Rebbi Shimon and Curing Insomnia

One of the first questions I ask someone who comes to me struggling to fall asleep is “What thoughts are keeping you awake?”. Because more often...

yesterday 20

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Doron Lazarus

Judaism Was Never Just a Religion

We are in a stretch of the Jewish calendar that, if you take note, tells us exactly who we are. We have just completed the celebration of Pesach,...

yesterday 20

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Steve Freedman

The Quiet Disappearance of Jewish Nuance

At a recent dinner, the conversation turned, as it often does these days, to Israel, identity, and what it means to be part of the Jewish people in...

yesterday 20

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Hadara Ishak

‘On the Threshold’ Parashat Tazria – Metzora 5786

The Torah [Vayikra 12:3] commands that a male child be circumcised on “the eighth day”. Why not any earlier? Perhaps this is a biological...

yesterday 20

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Ari Sacher

Shelter from the Storm

This morning instead of taking our dogs for a jog on the boardwalk along the Haifa shore, I took them straight out of our home and up the steep street...

yesterday 5

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Diana Barshaw Rich

921.The Great Calendar Controversy: Celebrating the Holidays on Different Days

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL 921. The Great Hebrew Calendar Controversy: When Jews Celebrated the Holidays on Different Days In...

yesterday 20

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Shlomo Pereira

Who Are We When the Sirens Stop?

“And then, suddenly, the sirens stop. Though the ballistic mid-air explosions didn’t get the memo right away.” For almost two months, life in...

yesterday 20

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Winslow Swart

The Fall of Orbán: What comes next?

The Fall of Orbán: What comes next?

The parliamentary elections in Hungary on April 12, 2026, have done more than just end sixteen years of illiberal rule; they have dismantled a...

yesterday 20

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John Meister

The Silence of Heaven

The Silence of Heaven

By sunrise on Simchat Torah, the skies over the Gaza envelope were streaked with smoke and the orange of distant fires. The sirens quieted, but the...

yesterday 20

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Pinchas M. Orbach

The moral deficiency and hypocrisy of self-righteousness

In 2025, Robert Spencer authored a provocative book called Antisemitism History & Myth¹. Reading the book is both enlightening and difficult. The...

yesterday 30

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Judith Brown

Featured Post

Featured Post

How is it possible that Viktor Orban was voted out after 16 years in power in Hungary, and his rival, Péter Magyar, won by such a large margin that...

yesterday 30

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Yaniv roznai

The UN Loses Its Way Once Again

I have been a supporter of the United Nations since its inception, given that I believe, despite all its shortcomings, it remains a somewhat neutral...

yesterday 30

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Sherwin Pomerantz

When Facts Are Silenced, Lies Take Over

The real crisis of our age is not just misinformation. It is the collapse of the moral and intellectual discipline required to resist it. We are...

yesterday 20

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Elroie agam

New Dawn for Hungary

New Dawn for Hungary

On 12 April 2026, Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power came to an end.  The people of Hungary voted against authoritarianism, against populist...

yesterday 30

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Raphael Cohen-Almagor

October 7, 2023 through the Prism of the Holocaust

At 10 AM April 14, 2026, sirens sounded throughout Israel. Instead of running towards the closest safe room Israelis stopped whatever they were doing...

yesterday 20

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Fred Naider

El-Sisi Calls for a solution to Egypt’s crisis. Will he listen?

The ongoing American-Israeli confrontation with Iran has placed the Egyptian state in a position where continued equivocation is no longer tenable. A...

yesterday 30

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Mohamed Saad Khiralla

Reflections Following the Ceasefire with Iran As Seen By Ethiopian Jewry

With the announcement of a ceasefire with Iran, many commentators—especially public figures who see themselves as potential alternatives to the...

yesterday 20

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Sharon Shalom

Yes, You Can Make This Up

 A friend has mentioned to me a couple of times that I should be writing more in the satire vein. I enjoy good satire – Monty Python, Oscar Wilde,...

yesterday 30

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Bob Avraham Yermus

When Theory Masks Advocacy

On March 25, Connecticut College’s hosted the 16th installment of its “Understanding Israel/Palestine” series, featuring Professor Maha Nassar...

yesterday 30

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Robert Huebscher

First the US condemned Iran for blocking Hormuz — and now the US is blocking it!

Talk about a reversal of roles. First blame the other guy, and then do it yourself! How did it happen? How did Trump steal the idea from Iran? Simple...

yesterday 20

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Yoseph Janowski

A Fun Day at the Zoo?

A Fun Day at the Zoo?

A zoo is a place families go on a Sunday afternoon. Parents hold their children’s hands. They point at the animals. The children laugh. It is...

yesterday 30

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Grant Arthur Gochin

King Donald and the Black Mullahs

So we may safely disregard them and their pitiful obfuscation. Where then to find reliable reporting and prognostication? The media perhaps? Alas. ...

yesterday 30

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Gary Epstein

Peace Dies Where Israel Is Rejected

Peace Dies Where Israel Is Rejected

Why Peace Keeps Failing Peace between Israelis and their neighbors has been attempted so many times that the pattern itself has become impossible to...

yesterday 30

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Sabine Sterk

How to Sustain the US-Israel Security Relationship at a Moment of Strain

I have dedicated my professional life to strengthening the US-Israel relationship and am very aware of how critical it is to the national security of...

yesterday 30

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Nadav Tamir

When the Bishop Defended Yeshivot

As government sought to fit Britain’s yeshivot into a regulatory framework designed for schools, an unexpected defender emerged in the House of...

yesterday 30

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Jonathan guttentag

The Treacherous BBC

Once again, the BBC is pursuing its antisemitic, woke agenda and attacking the Jewish State. This time its focus is on the beleaguered, suffering...

yesterday 30

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Michael Boyden

Trump’s Theatrics, Threats, and Rhetoric Are Undermining NATO Cohesion

Trump’s Theatrics, Threats, and Rhetoric Are Undermining NATO Cohesion

President Trump’s growing frustration with NATO members’ refusal to join U.S. efforts to either unblock or block the Strait of Hormuz has become a...

yesterday 20

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William Keenan