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This Shabbat, we read the Torah portion called “Emor”. Parashat Emor is like the ancient calendar of the Jewish people. It lists all our holidays...
Donald J. Trump deserves a special place in Jewish history. Several months ago, I wrote an article praising the wisdom and foresight of Eric Hoffer,...
“Labors of Love: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Szold” the recent documentary on the life of iconic Zionist, Henrietta Szold veers away from an...
The “Immortal Regiment” in Haifa — on Shabbat!!! Foreign Forces Alien to Israeli Society Have Exposed Themselves. What should Israel understand...
When Stanley Kubrick’s released upon the public Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb after a much anticipated...
On April 21, Warren Goldstein, chief rabbi of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa, spoke at a commemoration service in Johannesburg on...
The Knesset’s obsession with the death penalty in Israel once again collided with the Jewish liturgical calendar in yet another telling...
Zionism is one of the most debated—and most misunderstood—ideas of our time. To some, it is a political movement. To others, a historical...
Among the significant yahrzeit observances during the Hebrew month of Iyar is that of the yahrzeit of Rav Menachem Mendel of Riminov. Commemorated...
There was a time when “Never Again” was not a slogan. It was a moral commitment. Today, Jewish Americans are increasingly wondering whether that...
The scandal is not what antizionist syllabi teach. It’s what they have to hide. In graduate school, the conclusions often arrived before the...
For years, low voter turnout among young Arab citizens in Israel has often been explained away as “apathy,” “despair,” or “alienation.”...
Air Force One departs for Beijing on May 14. Between now and then, President Trump must decide whether he lands in the Forbidden City under a...
The accusation that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza has become commonplace in protests, social media, university activism, and...
Do we have to pick between openly supporting Israel and being accepted by our peers? I had a reckoning of sorts the other night that drove home a...
The project is about India’s role in the Indo-Pacific, its economic future, and its ability to shape its own strategic destiny. The project is about...
In July 2018 I filed a criminal complaint under Article 170² § 1 of the Lithuanian Criminal Code against the state Genocide and Resistance Research...
Maybe it’s the political instability and undermining of norms in Trump’s America, the erosion of support for Jews and the Jewish state, and the...
Israeli forces are once again fighting across southern Lebanon. The official language is familiar: cleared villages, temporary security belts,...
International relations are no longer shaped solely by states. Over the past three decades, power has diffused into transnational networks —...
Everyone Reported Trump’s Shabbat Proclamation. Few Are Grasping What It Actually Means. When President Donald Trump issued an official White House...
During the first half of last month, the primary focus of attention for Egyptians was neither the American Israeli war with Iran nor any other...
Finance Minister Betsalel Smotrich recently said, in a widely-quoted radio interview, that including an Islamicist party in the government coalition...
When a Nation Pauses: Rediscovering the Power of Shabbat 250 By Rabbi Anchelle Perl Something unusual is happening this May—and it may be exactly...
Air pollution is no longer merely a technical issue discussed by environmentalists or scientists. Today, from Tel Aviv to Haifa, from Istanbul to...
Body Parts, Primitive Mental States, and October 7th A recent conversation with a colleague about the barbarism of October 7th prompted me to return...
The US Department of Education (DOE) recently announced that it is launching a Title VI investigation into the New York City Department of Education...
The people of Israel and the land of Israel both have similar properties. The first thing we have to do is remove all existing knowledge we think we...
The Red Sea is no longer just a passage for global commerce, it has become a central arena in the evolving contest for geopolitical influence....
Anonymous sources suggest the United States and Iran are closing in on a one-page framework to end their conflict. Other, equally informed voices warn...
Power without accountability, allies without an exit, and a system that no longer obeys anyone There’s a real difference between talking like an...
Danna Horwood’s memoir was not written for the public. It was a collection of letters full of engaging stories spanning nearly one hundred years of...
The State Was Not the Beginning There is a lazy way to speak about Zionism, and there is a serious one. The lazy way begins in 1948 — with borders,...
Smoke-filled hotel and country-club dining rooms with middle-aged men puffing on cigars. That is my main memory of the countless events I covered...
G-D vs the Rabbis: Who’s right? Who wins? Sefer Devarim, perorated by Moses by Divine inspiration and comprising the final book of the Torah by...
Snippets from recent life in Israel: In Kiryat Ono, a billboard featuring women was vandalized shortly after it was installed. Black markings were...
In the Portion of Behar, the Torah presents what appears to be a straightforward legal framework governing economic collapse and recovery: A man loses...
On the one hand lies wine, on the other lies piety; with thy hand in mine and drink from my chalice. can bankrupt with malice; only juice of the grape...
On journalism, universities and the temptation of activism The analysis by journalist Matti Friedman of media coverage concerning Israel and Gaza —...
When Lies Rewrite History How is it possible that the entire world repeats a lie so confidently that it has become accepted as truth? How can people,...
When News Stops Being News and Becomes a Permanent Anti-Netanyahu Studio Israel’s major broadcasters still call themselves news channels. But to...
When our bathroom sink loosened from the wall, we bought a ‘silicon gun’ – and it was a quick fix. What if we could fix damaged hearts in the...
From Rodina to Bashertland: A Taxonomy of Homeland In my earlier piece, Soulmateland. Bashertland, I introduced two new terms—not as linguistic...
There are rare moments in international affairs when divisions blur and a clear moral line emerges. The recent missile and drone attacks on the United...
“Operation Epic Fury, Meet Operation Colossal Blunder.” That headline, by Scott Anderson in The New York Times, condemning the war, is not an...
A region that a decade ago ran largely on cash is building the financial architecture of the future at a pace that should command attention in Tel...
Hamas’s internal leadership elections confirm that the group has no interest in moderation or disarmament. The terror organization has elected...
When books like Genius and Anxiety and Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor are treated as ideological offenses, something deeper than disagreement is...
We’ve seen what real moral clarity looks like in America. When Black communities said Black Lives Matter, the call was specific, clear, and it was...
There are moments in the calendar when what remains does not lie in the sequence of days, but in the tension between what burns and what is spoken…...
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