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A salute. A salute to freedom, a salute to honesty. That’s what Javier Milei did last week. Who knows better than the Jewish people about getting...
In Parshat Emor, God issues the commandment of the counting of the Omer. We are commanded to count 49 days or 7 complete weeks starting from the day...
Homeland Is Not Where You Were Born, and Not Where You Chose to Live — But Where You Belong We are taught a simple formula: homeland is where you...
In Samuel Gochin Existed, I set down the documentary spine of my paternal grandfather’s life in Lithuania. Birth in Papilė on 15 February 1902....
May Yossef ben Avraham Have an Aaliyah in Heaven! We miss and love you Daddy! A Poem for all of Hashem’s Children The little girl and boy stood...
Do you consider yourself a conservative? Or perhaps a liberal? In either case, think again – you’ve probably got it wrong. Israel seems to be...
If you are paying attention during the weekly Torah reading in synagogue, you will notice frequent descriptions or commandments involving putting...
Israel Carries the Real Cost Recent developments in the Iran war have once again exposed a reality many outside the region prefer to ignore. When...
Pakistan’s Defence Community Already Knows the Solution to Regional Stability: With IDT widely discussed in Pakistani defence outlets, a Prevention...
Among the laws related to the Kohanim, there is one law that is learned from the word, וקדשתו, “And you must sanctify him.” Generally, this...
I follow Grant Gochin’s work on Facebook, X, Substack, and Times of Israel. I do it for two reasons. Professionally, I make documentary films about...
The convergence of the important Israeli holidays of Spring: Passover, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day for Fallen...
Iran does not believe Trump. That is the simplest explanation for what is happening, and the most dangerous one. On April 29, at four in the morning...
This week we witnessed the pomp and circumstance of the royal visit to America. In the same week we saw the brutal stabbing of two Jewish men while...
And The Delicious History Lesson We Need Right Now! Most people have never heard of Peter Bergson. They’ve never heard of Jan Karski either. Or the...
Between 2011 and 2015, then-Prince Charles of Wales accepted three cash payments totaling €3 million from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al...
Most of the arguments we see about Islam aren’t really about isolated incidents or disputed facts. They run deeper than that. What’s actually...
The nonprofit gallery’s sixth annual online auction brings together emerging voices, mid-career artists, and major Israeli art-world figures in a...
“IDF soldiers dancing and singing is not a war crime, regardless of the lyrics.” That argument, often heard in response to troubling wartime...
Reflections on gratitude, heritage, and the giants who shaped our community LIVING LEGACY: CARRYING FEZ INTO THE FUTURE How one man’s journey...
In my role as a pastoral healthcare liaison at a local hospital, I have the privilege – and the responsibility – of visiting Jewish patients on a...
When we speak about assimilation and intermarriage, we are touching on a very sensitive and, for many, painful issue. Statistics show that more than...
So far during my time as an undergraduate at the University of Missouri, I have noticed a certain growing obsession with the state of Israel. The...
Yair Garbuz, one of Israel’s most influential painters and a recipient of the Emet Prize for his contribution to Israeli culture, died this week at...
There are moments when memory is not attacked, but captured. This is the central problem with the “Immortal Regiment” as it is increasingly...
What it means when butterflies keep showing up It started with one butterfly. Then another. And then, over time, they became something I could no...
A Jewish‑school teacher in Budapest recently proposed a two‑day trip for 16–18‑year‑olds: one day at the Auschwitz‑Birkenau Memorial, the...
The interim report of the antisemitism royal commission in Australia, led by Virginia Bell and delivered to Governor-General Sam Mostyn, was always...
Ale Chianelli has established herself as a prominent conservative female voice in Brazil, gaining international recognition for her outspoken defense...
“Behold My works, how beautiful and praiseworthy they are. All that I created, I created for you. Take care not to ruin or destroy My world, for if...
Parshat Emor includes many disturbing passages—texts whose implications still reverberate today. When I used to teach English, I would explain to my...
Vayikra 22:32: וְלֹ֤א תְחַלְּלוּ֙ אֶת־שֵׁ֣ם קׇדְשִׁ֔י וְנִ֨קְדַּשְׁתִּ֔י בְּת֖וֹךְ...
This post is dedicated to the impressive volume of emailers, commenters, and mahjong-group dispatchers who have written, with varying degrees of...
The coordinated offensive launched across Mali on April 25 was not simply another episode in the country’s decade-long spiral. It was a strategic...
Germany’s current Erinnerungspolitik (its highly institutionalized culture of Holocaust remembrance) is often presented as if it were a natural and...
After our expedition to the Shomron, it was inevitable that our surviving members who had no significant alternative plans or surgeries would be eager...
Last week we named four pulls that work against every good intention. The first was self-centeredness. Not selfishness. The quiet fact that you are...
Straits Under Tension: “Their” Toll, Our Global Crisis An invisible balance holding the world together Claiming that what is happening in the...
There are sentences that do not remain in the past but circulate quietly within a society, as if they were waiting for the moment when they will again...
Today, on social media, a grossly misinformed individual, repeated the oft repeated trope that Jews consider themselves ‘superior’ because the...
Joel, Obadiah, and Micah: Facing the Storm Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Beasley presents readers with a delightful, thoughtful, enjoyable, and learning experience...
Most Jewish schools have moved past the question of whether AI matters. Now comes the harder question: what should we actually do with it? Over the...
October 7 changed everything. So why are we heading into an election as if it didn’t? I am not naïve enough to believe this will influence any...
Enough with the careful language. Enough with the solemn statements, the emergency meetings, the polished condemnations written by people who will...
Parashat Emor is a tapestry of distinct themes. We spend time with the laws of priestly purity, with the sacred rhythm of the calendar, with the...
Let’s dispense with the polite fiction first: this is not a mystery of leadership. It is a case study in it. What you are witnessing from Anthony...
Between Self-Image, Geopolitics and the Role of the University Europe has long preferred to imagine itself as a beacon of rationality, human rights...
On the morning of October 2, 2025, Jewish families across Manchester gathered for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, when a car was...
Lag B’Omer is considered a minor holiday in the Jewish calendar, but even a minor holiday is still worth celebrating. A great way to celebrate Lag...
Speech delivered in Monaco on April 29, 2026, during the celebration of the 78th anniversary of Israel’s independence organized by the Monaco-Israel...
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