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Faces we must not walk past

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Rebecca Liebermann Nissel

Pakistan’s Human Rights Reckoning Cannot Be Deferred Any Longer

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Michael Arizanti

Khosrow Alikordi: A Regime Tried to Silence a Lawyer—and Instead Exposed Itself

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Shabnam Assadollahi

Our Kids Should be in Shul

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Lindsey Bodner

The Human–AI Hybrid Analysis Prototype

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William Keenan

Antisemitism is weaponized, but not the way you think

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Neil Bar

Hanukkah and Spiritual Cause and Effect

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Mark Frankel

How Viruses Make Us Ill

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Shlomo Maital

Hanukkah 2025: Why I Didn’t Realize I Was a Zionist Until Now

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Alison A. Lobron

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Danielle Haas

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Erez Sommer

Sartorial Splendor

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David Walk

An Unfinished Dialogue with My Sister: Parshat Vayeshev

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Naomi Graetz

Goat Doula, Prime Minister and Tech Torah Scholar

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Yulia Medovoy Edelshtain

A Christian at Islamic College London: What I Saw Beneath the Surface

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Tim Orr

The Coat of Dreams and Betrayal

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Sam Cohen

Ego Is Killing Israel Advocacy

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Sabine Sterk

A discreet diplomacy towards a strategic shift

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Gilles Touboul

South Africa’s Palestinian Bill Arrives

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Beyond the Strongman: Can a King Save Libya’s Lost Generation?

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Amine Ayoub

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Khinvraj Jangid

Parashat Vayeshev: You Might be the Other’s Angel

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Yakov Nagen

The peace plan-Israel’s burden

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Judith Brown

Rain, Rain, Don’t Go Away…

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Yael Leibowitz

Violence in Israeli Society – From Battlefield to Schoolyard

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Tomer Samarkandi

Israel and Bond Market Buster Bomb: How Europe’s Fury at Washington Spills Over

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Vincent James Hooper

Punishing Israel’s Arabs – and Good Governance

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Yehuda Yaakov

The GOP’s Transactional Recast of the US–Israel Relationship

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Nadav Tamir

The Silent Rift: From Yosef’s Brothers to the Battlefield

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Shilo Sapir

A Turn-Up: For The Books!

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Chaim Ingram

Next Mission of Israel’s 180 Ambassadors: Moral Diplomacy in a Fractured World

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Shmuel Legesse

Part Three of a Three-Week Odyssey

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Ruth Kaplan

Strategic Prudence in Israel–Russia Ties

What should Israel do when a war in Europe reshapes the global balance of power? How should a small state behave when its main ally confronts...

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Ab Boskany

Israel: Never a Vacation; Always a Trip (Part 2 of 3)

Israel: Never a Vacation; Always a Trip (Part 2 of 3)

Part Two of a Three-Week Odyssey  Too much happens in Israel every day and every minute of every day.  It is for this reason I am dividing up my...

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Ruth Kaplan

Disarmament and Governance in Focus: Analyzing Gaza Peace Plan Phase Two

By the end of December, Gaza could find itself at a pivotal diplomatic juncture, the most significant since the ceasefire took hold nearly two...

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Junaid Qaiser

The Maghreb Nuclear Trap: Why the IAEA’s New Deal is a Strategic Catastrophe

On December 9, 2025, the world witnessed a bureaucratic photo op that may one day be remembered as the moment the nuclear fuse was lit in North...

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Amine Ayoub

The Mirage of Imported Peace

The Mirage of Imported Peace

“Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” (Golda Meir) For decades, world leaders have promised peace for the...

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Sabine Sterk

One year after Assad: Is the West celebrating a mirage?

December 8 marks the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and the arrival in power of Ahmed al-Sharaa. It is a date that many...

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Faraj Alexandre Rifai

Covenant as a Separative Operator: Against Soft Universalism

ואתם תהיו לי ממלכת כהנים וגוי קדוש I want this line to stand first on its own. Not as a devotional ornament and not as a...

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

The Sound of Silence That Failed Yosef

Parashat Vayeishev In our world today, studies continue to reveal a painful truth: when people witness harm, many choose to stand aside. They...

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Eliezer Simcha Weiss

The Netanyahu Trials – A Case Study in Lawfare

The Netanyahu Trials – A Case Study in Lawfare

For years, many Israelis and commentators abroad spoke about Netanyahu as if his guilt was already established, and the trials were expected to...

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Guy Samuel

Caring for Israel’s reservists and their families is an economic imperative

When Israeli reservists return home from their military service, re-entering civilian life is often no simple matter. Coming back to their...

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Lavi Zamir

Something strange in the neighborhood

Carney wants to give parts of Israel to the Palestinians. Now Canadian Indigenous want parts of Canada. It just doesn’t pay to start up with...

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Yoseph Janowski

Betrayed Aid: Redirect Jewish Giving

I am a Zionist Jew who has served Africa my entire life—because giving is what we Jews do. Jewish Americans, just 2% of the population, account for...

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Our Mother Rachel

The death of Rachel was one of the most tragic stories in the Torah. Yakov’s one true love perished while giving birth to Binyamin, the youngest of...

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Kenneth Cohen

Schocken, Goethe’s Faust and Rabbi Nahman

Salman Schocken died alone in one of Switzerland’s hotel rooms, clutching two outstanding books, Reb Nahman’s stories, Goethe’s Faust, in his two...

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Gershon Hepner

Erasing Israel: The Quiet Rewrite That Reshaped Christianity

There is a hard truth that has sat quietly in the background of Christian theology for almost two thousand years. Christianity, for all its beauty...

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Tim Orr

Honoring the Divine Image: A Message for International Human Rights Day

A Blessed Human Rights Day to You. On December 10, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust and the catastrophic disregard for human life that marked...

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Yakov Nagen

Hatred as a National Project: From the Middle East to the Western World

Hatred as a National Project: From the Middle East to the Western World

Anger, jealousy, revenge, obsession—these forces sit at the root of so many of our personal and national struggles. We often have only ourselves to...

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Jeffrey Levine

Our Reluctance to Let Go of Hostage Square

When the dream of the living hostages returning home came to fruition this past October, our community looked for ways to ritualize the moment....

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David-Seth Kirshner