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In my role as communications director of the Policy Working Group* (PWG), I have made an annual trip to Berlin, where we partner with members of Pax...
Day by day, my appreciation, respect, and love grow for my beloved Muslim friends who, in these dark times, choose to stand with the Jewish people...
For years, conversations about Islamic antisemitism in the West have usually stayed far too shallow. Most explanations follow familiar patterns:...
Israel ordered the evacuation of two hundred thousand residents from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Wednesday and began striking Hezbollah...
Israel absorbed nearly one million Jews from the former Soviet Union during the 1990s. That influx reshaped the country. Soviet émigrés arrived with...
The warning signs are no longer subtle A recent Israel Hayom report describes what many Israelis and American Jews have felt building for some time:...
Lithuania’s state historical institution cannot credibly serve as clean historical authority in the Fridman prosecution after IHRA’s own experts...
The Menorah in the Temple was a fascinating spiritual object. There was a great deal of mysticism attached to it. The Alshich wrote that there was a...
This week’s Torah reading is extremely disappointing. For 10 chapters the Book of Bamidbar has been inexorably moving toward the grand entry of...
The first in a new weekly series, Real Role Models: Wisdom from the Torah, G-d willing and health permitting, exploring the Torah’s most compelling...
Jewish advocacy groups have spent the last few years focused on antisemitism and antizionism in the academic world, as they should. At the same time,...
There was something almost unbearably poignant about this year’s Israeli Eurovision entry. On the surface, Michelle appeared to comply perfectly...
The recent acknowledgment by Temasek, one of the world’s leading state-owned investment companies, that it is likely to miss its 2030 portfolio...
At first glance, certain Chassidic stories can seem puzzling, even unsettling. They appear to defy the orderly structure of Halachah, time, and...
You have reached for food many times without being hungry. The handful from the bowl on the counter. The second helping you took without thinking. Not...
We’ve been on both sides of the campaigns—the receiving and the sending. My mailbox is full of emails that start to arrive within hours or minutes...
ICAN asked Lithuania twelve questions on March 17, 2026. Lithuania answered eight. The four it avoided are the questions that decide whether the...
The Hebrew Bible has words for excrement. Tzo’ah appears in Deuteronomy — waste must be buried outside the camp, because God walks among you. The...
A newspaper does not need to lie in order to reposition reality. Sometimes it can do so through something far quieter: the placement of uncertainty....
The primary is over. Now comes the moment for reflection. What happened in Illinois’ 9th Congressional District should serve as an important lesson,...
It may seem like the High Holidays are a lifetime away, but for your Rabbi, the prep for sermon writing starts now! But how does a Rabbi go about...
In April 2019, the chairs and recent chairs of the expert working groups and committees of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance issued a...
I’ve spent enough time queuing in Israel to conclude two things. First: Israelis do not stand in line. Second: there are only five kinds of...
As a Tottenham fan, I have spent most of this season describing it as disastrous. And objectively, that makes sense. Spurs finished 17th in the...
In a recent piece on these pages, Rabbi Mark Dratch noted that the Vatican’s new focus on Artificial Intelligence and human dignity borrows heavily...
THE LIGHT OF THE MENORAH AND THE SHADOWS OF CRITICISM My late sister, Menorah Rotenberg, was born toward the end of June. I often imagine my father...
By the time you read this, Shavuot may have passed, and I will hopefully still be asleep recovering from it. Shavuot may honestly be the only holiday...
The Middle East is like a powder keg, filled with conflicts between nations and within countries, alongside natural resources and ancient cultures....
For decades, Jack M. Daniel immersed himself in one of the world’s great civilizational knowledge systems. As a practitioner and scholar of...
The Question Many Jews Never Expected to Ask Again When people think about the Holocaust, they often imagine the danger must have been obvious from...
A Child is Born, A Miracle is Declared (Reflection on Torah Portion Nasso) A child is born, a miracle is declared; If only all parents saw it as such....
Silwan, a largely Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem near the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, has emerged as a flashpoint in Israel’s...
If America treats Iran as an equal strategic partner despite decades of terrorism, hostage-taking, proxy warfare, and nuclear brinkmanship, what...
With the recent war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran seemingly moving toward a conclusion, many are wondering if the damage inflicted...
I practiced and taught psychotherapy for over 40 years. Over time, I learned that repeated narratives can acquire weight of established truth...
Aufruf Shabbat for Daniel Hefter – Shabbat Naso – May 30, 2026 – Pittsburgh, PA When an aircraft is forced to drop its oxygen masks from below...
In August 2020, the United Arab Emirates announced it was normalizing relations with Israel. The world called it historic. American diplomats called...
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, on artificial intelligence and the human person, was released on May 25. Magnifica Humanitas asks whether the age...
Ukraine did not wake up one morning and decide to stage a provocation against Israel. It did something much deeper, older, and more painful: it began...
For those who disparage Jews with the shout, “Go Back to Poland,” you do both yourself and history a disservice. Yes, Jews have lived as...
If you ask most people where American Jewish history begins, they’ll say New York. Some might know about Newport. Almost no one says Georgia. And...
It’s day one million of the war, or at least that is how many Israelis feel. For many of us, simply getting through the day has become exhausting....
I grew up in a society where hatred of Israel sometimes occupied more space than love for our own lives. Over time, I came to understand something...
Timothy Snyder recently described the United States under Donald Trump as engaged in “superpower suicide.” The phrase is harsh, but useful. It...
The first preliminary bill to dissolve the Knesset ahead of looming elections passed yesterday. The announcement, while both expected and anxiously...
France’s military humiliation in the Sahel was not supposed to end this way. After more than a decade of counterterrorism operations across Mali,...
One of the most corrosive dynamics in the Israel-Palestine discourse is the increasingly symbiotic relationship between opposing extremes – each...
There is a reason Australians no longer trust the political language surrounding extremism. They know when they are being managed. Jewish Australians...
It’s time to cut bait. The time has come to detach ourselves from the complete mess Donald J. Trump has gotten himself, and the American military,...
Jerusalem trivia for 500: The Old City has four quarters. Three of them make perfect sense: Jewish, Christian, Muslim. Who possesses the fourth? The...
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