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Bahrain has delivered a masterstroke of sovereign realism. Last week, the kingdom stripped 69 individuals and their immediate family members of...
In the weeks following the outbreak of the war between the US-Israel alliance and Iran, professors and student groups around the country have painted...
The closing parshiyot of Sefer Vayikra confront us with two deeply unsettling themes: human power over others and divine power over us. In Behar, we...
How Lithuania filed in court the defense Adolf Eichmann raised before he was hanged Adolf Eichmann was not executed because he invented the cog...
There was a brief window in 2026 where Germany looked like it might actually lead. Instead, Merz has about-faced and tucked Germany’s national tail...
If you’re Jewish and you’ve spent the last two years trying to explain yourself to someone you care about, and every conversation ends the same...
When we speak about the problems facing humanity today, whether they appear on more psychological levels such as emptiness, depression, or loneliness,...
Lag BaOmer is one of the more difficult holidays to define. When you scratch beneath the surface of burnt potatoes and marshmallows, you discover that...
After its traumatic collapse in the 2024 elections, the Democrat Party, doing some serious soul-searching, announced that it would conduct and publish...
Remembering the Lessons of Babylon After October 7, after the campus chants, after the harassment and the synagogue security details, many Israelis...
I can still see it as clearly as if it were parked in my driveway yesterday: my very first bicycle, a bright red Schwinn with a long banana seat and...
Is Donald Trump the Christ or the Antichrist? In recent months, there has been a stream of hidden symbolic religious messaging coming from the White...
Dependence on American Taxpayers’ Money to Fund Our Security Runs Counter to Israel’s Interests. Rahm Emanuel – by his full name Rahm Israel...
For two and a half years, life in Israel’s North has been anything but stable. Families have been uprooted, returned, and uprooted again—forced to...
….. Able to Control the Forces We Unleash Veni, vidi… and understood!? There is an idea that emerges almost naturally every time history stumbles...
The evening at the Washington Hilton left behind a sense of fear that is difficult to describe. Having lived in the United States for many years, I...
Israel, the United States’ closest ally in the Middle East, once enjoyed wide bipartisan support among Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress,...
IDF soldiers are carrying out a vital duty, risking their lives in a necessary war to defend our people and land against evil forces. Everyone,...
Why Does It Take Tragedy for Us to Become One? Every year, as we approach Lag BaOmer, we’re reminded of a painful truth. Rabbi Akiva had 24,000...
Learn to love your blessings. This is the highest form of Positive Thinking. If you did not sleep last night you would not be yourself. You could not...
Whenever I read Western commentary on the India-Israel relationship, I see the same mistake repeated. Analysts try to wedge India into a political...
I grew up in an era where the Jewish community was completely tied to the Democratic party. Mom was a Socialist Democrat, Dad was too. Many in the...
From Hormuz to Space: How the US-Iran War Is Reshaping the Future of Energy. The United States–Iran conflict is not merely a regional security...
Last Friday, Hillel Ontario partnered with Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto to host Shabbat dinner for over 120 Jewish and Iranian students. The...
I want, in this study, to look at one of Judaism’s most distinctive and least understood characteristics – the chronological imagination....
Framed as a defense against “political” academic strikes, Likud MK Avihai Boaron’s proposed law would grant the Minister of Education full...
Building Resilience: When Children Find Their Circle Tahreer Abd Su’ed, a science teacher and teacher trainer with Israel’s Ministry of Education,...
On May 17, 2025, Cecilia Culver stepped onto the commencement stage at George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and...
I was walking in downtown Jerusalem. At an intersection, I waited for the little red figure to turn green. When it did, I crossed to the middle of...
Parshiot Behar–Bechukotai, which we read this week, present the covenant between God and Israel in stark and dramatic terms. The Torah promises...
At age 10, a student will be in 5th grade. In math class, they will start using long division with two-digit divisors, and in language arts, they will...
A random murder in a pizzeria was used by the media to portray Israel as a violent society. Here are the real facts. The horrific murder of the young...
The emerging campaign claims that the Islamist Ra’am party is a legitimate partner for coalition membership and government participation. From...
There is a particular kind of tension that comes with living far from Israel at a time like this. On the surface, life continues as normal. Work...
There was never one “New Jew.” There was a struggle over which Jew would be allowed to carry the future. This is the necessary continuation of any...
In international politics, power is often measured through military strength, economic capacity, territorial influence, and global alliances. Major...
The World Had the Document. It Chose Not to Read It. This post continues the argument from “We Need This Blood: Some Thoughts on The Meaning of...
Does a more expensive event mean a more joyful one? Here is how to do more yourself and together with the people you love, while keeping costs in...
I used to think reinvention meant closing one chapter before opening the next. A clean break. A clear starting point. A sense that life moves forward...
JTA — “Rabbi Greyber, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide.” Those were the words shouted at me in front of Hebrew school students...
In times of crisis, public sentiment often reveals more than official statements ever can. While governments may issue diplomatic condemnations and...
In discussions around West Asia, moral clarity is often clouded by competing narratives of grievance. Every actor claims injury; every conflict is...
Almost all great civilizations have a common life cycle. They organize, ascend, mature, overextend and decline. Their rise often comes from a...
There is a particular sentence now repeated so often in certain Jewish circles that it has become almost liturgical: “Criticizing the Israeli...
I feel like the world needs a basic primer on this: Criticizing Netanyahu and the current government of Israel isn’t antisemitic. Holding Jews...
The emergency summit convened this week by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer should never have been necessary. Yet it was. After the stabbing of two...
As the geopolitical tremors of spring 2026 keep the world’s gaze fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, the most consequential shift in the Islamic...
It should come as no surprise that coaches in the NBA trend left. There are quite a few reasons for this but mostly it is because the NBA office in...
The murderous massacre of Jews on Bondi beach, December 14, 2025, was an unspeakable tragedy. But I wasn’t at all surprised. It was simply a matter...
The prophet Yermiyahu’s (Jeremiah’s) messages oscillate between despair and hope. In this week’s haftarah, he stands unmistakably as the...
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