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Children in Wars Outside Gaza apparently Don’t Matter

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Berl Falbaum

What Israel can learn from the many lives of Dr. Koop

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Kenneth Ryesky

Ashkefardim: No Ruz, Nissan, Together, Still

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Rebecca Sassouni

I Had a Dream

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Mort Laitner

Islamic-Christian Relations & Antisemitism

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Ed Gaskin

Post traumatic

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Yuval Krausz

Israel on the Path to Total Victory

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Daniel Rosen

How I Make My Chocolate Seder Memorable: 5 Tips That Work

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Ben Vorspan

In Retrospect: Some Past April Events for Israel, Jews and the US in the World

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Michael J. Lewis

Tel Aviv and Berlin: A New City Partnership?

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John Meister

Into the Secret Annex: Reading Anne Frank at Last

Before touring the Anne Frank exhibition at New York’s Center for Jewish History (CJH), I decided to do background research. That is, I read the...

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Van Wallach

Will Copyright Doom Generative AI?

Will Copyright Doom Generative AI?

New large language models (LLMs) seem to appear every day, yet the controversy surrounding the legality of training them on copyrighted material...

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Steven J. Frank

Why Israel Needs to Bring Back Its Brilliant Minds

Why Israel Needs to Bring Back Its Brilliant Minds

With all the news coming out of Israel these days, it would’ve been easy to miss the recent prediction by Moody’s that the country’s...

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Jessica Feldan

NIH cuts won’t solve an antisemitism problem

“My students grants on Alzheimer’s Disease were cancelled.” “I can only keep my lab open for a month or two without these funds.” These are the...

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Sarah A. Stern

Jewish Calendar

The question is often asked as to whether the Jewish calendar is lunar or solar. The correct answer is that it is both. The individual months are...

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Kenneth Cohen

Christian Zionists and American Jews Post-October 7″

This is the 22nd part of a series on Christianity and the history of antisemitism. While we are often reminded to “Never forget,” many of us were...

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Ed Gaskin

Hypocrites and Breeders

The United Nations says Israel is stopping the women of Gaza from reproducing. The three-person Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian...

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Donna Schatz

Always With Us

They were always there- at school plays, birthday parties, sitting amongst us in the audience at Yom Hashoah memorials. They were in our homes,...

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Ilanit Zakowski

Freedom and A New Perspective- Pekudei/Shabbat Hachodesh 5785

This Shabbat is a banner Shabbat in the Jewish calendar. We read parshat Pekudei, which completes our yearly reading of the book of Exodus. It is...

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Ben Einsidler

From Hostage to Human Trafficked — Part One

Introduction On October 7, 2023, Hamas conducted surprise attacks on several areas in Israel, slaughtering millions of innocent people.[1] Akin to...

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Kaitlyn Lancaster

‘The Cantonists’

‘The Cantonists’

New Book by Yosef Mendelevich Interview by Tzvi Fishman A scholarly book on a fascinating yet little known subject in the chronicles of Jewish...

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Tzvi Fishman

Francesca Albanese: Unfit for reappointment

Francesca Albanese: Unfit for reappointment

When the United Nations appointed Francesca Albanese as the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, it seemingly favored an “...

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Bepi Pezzulli

Where is all this headed

The US is reportedly sending planes to an island in the Indian Ocean, ostensibly in position to attack Iran. Hamas is on the verge of being...

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Yoseph Janowski

Haftarat Parshat Vayikra: Living as a Holy Nation

This coming Shabbat, we find ourselves beginning the book of Vayikra, or, as Chazal referred to it, “Torat Kohanim,” ‘the law of the priests.’ At...

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Kenneth Brander

Understanding the First Verse of Parshat Vayikra

1 And the LORD called unto Moshe, and spoke unto him from the tent of meeting, saying: א  וַיִּקְרָא אֶל-מֹשֶׁה;...

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J.j Gross

We have no other land

We have no other land

We sat in a beautiful room, around 50 of us. Jews and Arabs together, as is usual wherever we go these days. It’s our normality, living in a shared...

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Shoshana Lavan

The six political fires that could sink Netanyahu

Netanyahu’s government rests on a precarious foundation. Since his return to power in 2022, his coalition’s survival has depended almost entirely...

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Simon Kupfer

When Did the Oral Torah Become a Written Text?

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Sages of the Talmud observed a profound upheaval in the world, questioning whether the laws...

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Yigal Bin-Nun

The Contemporaneous Fart

The Contemporaneous Fart

In his book The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), French existentialist author Albert Camus pointed out the absurdity of life and how we, knowing that, need...

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David Rosh Pina

The Right Child for the Right Family

The Right Child for the Right Family

As I made my way to Bevis Marks Synagogue in London, I marveled at the picturesque sight of children hurrying to catch a school bus. Meanwhile,...

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Alexander Woodman

In My Grandfather’s Ancestral Home, A Window to Ukraine’s Jewish Future

In My Grandfather’s Ancestral Home, A Window to Ukraine’s Jewish Future

As news of a possible ceasefire in Ukraine continues to make the headlines, I feel a rush of hope and caution. It’s the same uneasy swirl of...

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Alex Weisler

How to get up some mornings

After several discussions with friends over the last few days, I decided to try and understand a world which increasingly makes no sense. The...

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Helen Weiss Pincus

Need we condemn, scare, shame, and hate outwardly religious Jews who fake it?

Are they faking being Orthodox or just weak? First of all, dishonesty is as antithetical as anything to Judaism. The Sages of the Talmud show...

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Would he? Could he? How Netanyahu might delay Israel’s next election

Israeli democracy is on borrowed time. After years of incremental erosion, the democratic backslide is no longer theoretical. It is happening. And...

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Raoul Wootliff

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem

Rehov Caspi, a magnificent street in the historic Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem, stands as a testament to the unbreakable spirit of Israel....

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Sabine Sterk

Gaza’s anti-Hamas protests mean different things to different players

Gaza’s anti-Hamas protests mean different things to different players

The United Arab Emirates is betting that recent anti-Hamas protests in Gazan towns, supported by influential tribes and clans, will strengthen Abu...

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James M. Dorsey

Turkey’s new push for leadership in the Islamic world

Turkish President Erdogan is gearing up for war. Given his support globally to radical Islamist regimes, Turkey may soon replace Iran and Pakistan...

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Sergio Restelli

Mike Huckabee as US ambassador to Israel: A dangerous choice

The potential appointment of former Arkansas governor and conservative commentator Mike Huckabee as the United States Ambassador to Israel has...

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Eitan Berechman

Featured Post

Featured Post

Israel’s new ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter recently spoke directly to millions of Arabs in an exclusive television interview....

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Jeffrey Gedmin

Did You Flush? Mind and Body as a Plumbing System

Imagine waking up one morning to find the water in your home barely trickling from the taps, slow and murky, or worse—completely blocked....

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Zhenia Kulyavtsev

Family Therapy

A new television series from Argentina, Family Therapy, an appealing melange of comedy and drama, is now available on the ChaiFlicks streaming...

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Sheldon Kirshner

My visit to Israel, March 2025, Part one.

My visit to Israel, March 2025, Part one.

It began with a cancelled flight. My trip to Israel Via Frankfurt Required a re-route given a late announced strike In German airports. This was...

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Rod Kersh

The people of Iran deserve the support of all Jews

The people of Iran deserve the support of all Jews

Three months ago, I had the special opportunity to speak to Iranians Americans, Jews and Israelis at a unique event in Virginia that sought to...

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Karmel Melamed

Israel’s IDF Soldiers: Duty, Honor, and Sacrifice

Israel’s IDF Soldiers: Duty, Honor, and Sacrifice

The Strength of a Nation: Israel’s Youth and Their Commitment to Service Serving one’s country is always a noble act, but serving a nation under...

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Sabine Sterk

How to be a rational pacifist during a defensive war

Crucial is to juggle several principles at the same time A rational pacifist is not someone who says to a mass murderer, ‘Do whatever you want;...

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Do not Become Religious Extremists

Most people whose knowledge of Islam is derived from the daily news would be shocked to learn that Prophet Muhammad told Muslims, “Religion (Islam)...

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Allen S. Maller

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #180, Abarbanel 9

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #180, Abarbanel 9

In this episode: corsairs! Now, it seems we ain’t got no asterlabe, and our third-rate charts don’t serve no use, seein’ there ain’t no land...

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Stephen Berer

Iran’s nuclear program and its effects in South Asia

The US-Iran nuclear situation remains a focal point of global security concerns, with President Donald Trump having issued a warning to Iran’s...

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Sergio Restelli

Antisemitism as a Subject of Legal Psychology

Antisemitism as a Subject of Legal Psychology

Eighty years after the liberation of Jews from concentration camps and the end of the Shoah, hostility toward Jews remains a persistent and...

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John Meister

Blessings on the Hidden

A question is asked regarding the detailed accounting of the items used in the construction of the Mishkan. The amounts that were donated...

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Kenneth Cohen