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Light Over Darkness

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Kenneth Cohen

Normandy, Gaza, and the Awful Cost of Just War

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Yitzhak Santis

Journalists Empower Terror, Not Truth

yesterday 20

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Sabine Sterk

Not My Enemy: Responding to Galit Distel Atbaryan

yesterday 20

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Todd Berman

The Biblical Basis for and Against Providing Sanctuary

yesterday 20

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Ed Gaskin

Dear Greta

yesterday 20

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Ari Mittleman

Bani Israel: The First Love of God

yesterday 20

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Tanveer Zamani

Being Jewish out loud

yesterday 20

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Candice Talberg

Featured Post

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Tikvah

Graz Under Shock: Ten Lives Lost, a Nation in Grief

yesterday 30

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Mikheil Khachidze

Indigenous Resilience: The Six-Day War and Beyond

In a world of rising terror and distorted narratives, Indigenous resilience offers a principled path forward, rooted in truth, strategy, and...

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Jason Watson

Lifelong Learning and My Jewish Journey

I am a product of the traditional American Jewish educational path. I attended Hebrew School as a child, Hebrew High School as a teen, and was...

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Stephanie Z. Bonder

Counterattack or flee?

Think it through now you’re not attacked and calm Statistics show that the best survival chances lie in fleeing rather than confronting an...

previous day 10

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Taking Pride

Every June, we talk about the fact that it is Pride month, and we celebrate the unique characteristics of our staff, elders and community. We do...

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Carol Silver Elliott

The Biblical Basis for Supporting Pluralism, Multiculturalism, and DEI

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Ed Gaskin

The Many Names of Jew-Hatred

Will antisemitism eventually be replaced by the term antizionism? It is worth asking whether, in time, the word antisemitism will fall out of...

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Adam Louis-Klein

From Blessing to Battle: Parshat Be’Haalotcha

FROM BLESSING TO BATTLE: HOLDING THE TENSION BETWEEN PEACE AND POWER In Sefer Bamidbar (Numbers), the Torah presents contradictory portrayals of...

previous day 10

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Naomi Graetz

Anne Frank Was Not Deported by ICE

Over the past few days, ICE has been conducting immigration raids in Los Angeles where protests erupted in response — featuring pro-Palestine flags...

previous day 10

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Abe Gurko

From Job Offers to the Frontlines: How Russia Lures African Workers into a War

In the shadows of the ongoing war in Ukraine, another, lesser-known conflict is unfolding — one that involves deception, exploitation, and human...

previous day 10

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Mikheil Khachidze

To Whom It May Concern: I Surrender

“Why are you doing this?” he asked. “Helping me and my family?”  “Because you’re my neighbors in the world,” I replied.  But that wasn’t the whole...

previous day 10

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Jennifer Love

Anti-Zionism, Zionism, and the Need for Clarity

This piece is being written in the aftermath of the October 7th, 2023 attacks on Israel — a traumatic event that left over a thousand Israelis dead...

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Dan Jacobs

California Student Uses Graduation Stage to Shine a Light on the Hostages

At a time when graduation ceremonies have become platforms for protest and polarization—especially around Israel—an 18-year-old Jewish student in...

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Reuven H. Taff

The Spirit challenges our humanity

The time the Hebrew nation spent in the Sinai wilderness can be seen as a pedagogical journey. It was not a labyrinth, because that vast, wondrous...

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Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Power Without Trust

Four decades after Iran’s 1979 revolution, public trust in the Islamic Republic is in free fall, with nearly 90% of citizens favoring democratic...

tuesday 10

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Danial Jarrahi

Have We Gone Too Far with the ‘Empowerment’ Strategy?

Like many of us, I used to think that the “answer” for connecting young Jewish adults to Jewish life was empowerment and innovation. I assumed that...

tuesday 10

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Shmuly Yanklowitz

J Street: My Pro-Israel Political Home

After October 7, like many in the American Jewish community, I was shocked by some reactions on the far-left in the United States. Some were...

tuesday 10

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Susan Talve

Just The Facts

Myths and Facts Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better,...

tuesday 8

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Alex Rose

Ryan Terrell, Basketball and the Zionist Dream

A few weeks ago, the Anti-Defamation League hosted a seminar with Ryan Turell, a former Yeshiva University star player who is now playing...

tuesday 10

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Kenneth Jacobson

My Friend Sam is Missing in the Himalayas. He Was On a Healing Mission

My friend Samuel Vengrinovich is missing in the Himalayas. He was last seen on Friday morning near Indrahar Pass, in the mountains above...

tuesday 10

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Eliyahu Freedman

Gaza comes to an art gallery near you

tuesday 7

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Louis Hemmings

Iran’s Regime in Final Phase of Collapse

The End Is Near: Iran’s Regime in Final Phase of Collapse By Victoria Azad 2025.06.10 In recent weeks, the intensified intelligence activities of...

tuesday 8

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Victoria Azad

The Verbal and Non-verbal Tilim and Totachim Deployed to Approach God

Seas and seas – and seas – of words have been devoted to the spiritual experience of God by mystics such as Philo of Alexandria, Martin Buber and...

tuesday 10

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Ruth Ben-Or

The Comeuppance Greta Thunberg Deserves

There’s something deliciously ironic happening in an Israeli detention facility right now: Greta Thunberg and her idiotic, sycophantic shipmates...

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Abe Gurko

Descent into Darkness: Canadian Extremism

I have lived in Canada most of my life and always experienced it as a country devoted to peace and inclusion. No longer. Antisemitism is surging,...

tuesday 3

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Ilanna Sharon Mandel

Marching in the Light – Naso 5785

Last Friday was a long day. It was also a long 12-mile walk — a walk of faith and prayer. Dozens of clergy joined together, “praying with our...

tuesday 1

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David Lerner

How Do You Get from Heartbroken to Hopeful?

So many rabbis and Jewish scholars I respect are imploring us to remain optimistic about a resolution to the Middle East war. They remind us of a...

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Lonye Debra Rasch

Antisemitism is Getting Worse

Antisemitism has always been around, sometimes less, sometimes more. Less after WWII, simmering underground as even more ardent antisemites were...

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Jaroslava Halper

Patriots for Patriots: Israel Transfers Air Defense Systems to Ukraine

In a rare and revealing moment, Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Michael Brodsky, has publicly confirmed that Israel has transferred US-origin...

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Mikheil Khachidze

Instruments of Good (Beha’alotecha)

Today marks 612 days since October 7, 2023. It is almost beyond comprehension that 55 of our beloveds are still in captivity. And tomorrow, we will...

tuesday 40

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Menachem Creditor

There are Two Ways to End the War and Bring the Hostages Home

Currently there are only 2 ways to end this damn war and bring home all the hostages. Neither of those 2 ways is through Doha or Cairo, and neither...

tuesday 10

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Lonny Baskin

IS COLONIALISM STILL ‘BLOWING IN THE WIND?’

The killing of two people working at the Israel Embassy—preceded by arson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and followed by firebombs in Boulder,...

09.06.2025 2

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Donna Robinson Divine

October 8 Jew

We Jews are a stiff-necked people. We did, after all, coin the word “dafka’. So our reaction to the hatred directed against us immediately...

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Nahum Meron

An open letter to Greta

Dear Greta, I remember the day you entered our lives. The fire in your eyes and electrifying passion convinced us to listen to you. You became a...

09.06.2025 40

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Elkana Bar Eitan

Trump v Elon, Magic Mushrooms v Sautéed Mushrooms: The Ultimate Fungus Face-Off

AI and Jobs: Trump warns AI will replace hard-working Americans. Elon insists AI is the hard-working American, and also your therapist. Immigration...

09.06.2025 6

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Vincent James Hooper

Greta and the Flotilla of Fools

Every few years, a familiar circus sails back into the international spotlight: a patchwork coalition of self-styled activists, fringe political...

09.06.2025 8

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Ori Solow

Does Fine-Tuning Make God Look Unintelligent?

Some skeptics look askance at the fine-tuning argument for God and ask: “If God had to fine-tune the constants of nature so precisely, doesn’t that...

09.06.2025 7

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Aaron Zimmer

To Grasp the Terror Mindset, Understand that Hatred is Their god

The shocking May 21 murders of a soon-to-be-engaged Jewish couple is still reverberating among Jews, Christians, and people of good will. Sarah...

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Arlene Bridges Samuels

I Don’t Know

Teach your tongue to say, ‘I don’t know.’ (Talmud Bavli, Berachot 4a ). “I don’t know” is a difficult confession to make.  We are trained...

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Joseph Glyn

Carlos Alcaraz – Much more than tennis

From the first time I saw Carlos Alcaraz win Wimbledon, he’s done it again and again. I simply love him. He always leaves me with a smile—and with...

09.06.2025 1

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Ben Lazarus

It happened here: when the Ohio National Guard murdered protesting students

I’m reminded of another time. Richard Nixon was President. The country was off balance. Anti-war protestors were loud and everywhere. May 4th, 1970...

09.06.2025 2

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Stephen Stern