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There is considerable confusion around the reported U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding, or MOU. Many are treating it as if a final Iran nuclear...
Where have all the young men gone? Long time passing Where have all the young men gone? Long time ago Where have all the young men gone? They’re all...
There is a particular kind of silence that descends in the seconds after a story breaks that changes everything. Not the silence of calm. The silence...
With the start of the FIFA World Cup, a question has arisen among us: Does attending the matches of the Iranian national team reinforce the narrative...
When I arrived at the Gaza Division’s war room on October 8, 2023, there were roughly 60 other soldiers and reservists already there. Men and women....
Against the backdrop of an ongoing and increasingly violent war of terror being waged by the Haredi community against the State and the citizens of...
The “Vance Deal”—underwritten by U.S. Vice President Vance’s preferred Middle East patrons in Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia—does...
Trump fought with Israel against Iran. But now Trump is looking at the midterm elections, and the rising price of gas (due to the blocking of the...
In my last column, I argued that the reported Trump-Netanyahu blowup mattered less than the strategic realities beneath it. The United States and...
Sweden is going to the polls in September, which means that all the class clowns are now trying to become popular. There’s nothing they won’t do...
On Saturday 6 June, just after Pentecost, the Royal Albert Hall filled with the sound of a worldwide church. Prom Praise, the annual concert mounted...
Speaking with a professor whose mind and heart are in the right place is like digging for the truth and its deeper historical roots. He is the...
The last three years has made a simple truth unavoidable: military dominance is no longer a reliable path to lasting security in the Middle East....
We now see President Trump has agreed to a self-declared “great deal” with Iran. While Israel and America are far better off than they were post...
The tendency to produce, package, and instrumentalize myths for specific purposes—whether individual, collective, historical, or political—is...
Every technology eventually finishes going mainstream and then, almost as an afterthought, arrives in Jewish life. Email did it, the smartphone did...
When Allies Become Unreliable For decades, Israel has viewed the United States as its strongest ally. The relationship has survived wars, political...
Dedicated in loving memory of my beloved Saba, Moshe ben Kudma Meshumar Cohen ז״ל, on the occasion of his yahrzeit, 6 Tammuz 5752. לעילוי...
There are moments in history when friendship is measured not by what is given, but by what is risked. In the Jewish tradition, there is a principle...
Israel’s War, America’s Ending Benjamin Netanyahu is claiming victory over a war whose ending he no longer owns. That is the quiet defeat inside...
CIVIL SOCIETY : NGO Monitor — publishes fact-based research and independent analysis about non-governmental organizations, their funders, and other...
Leadership Is A Mutual Contractual Assignment (Reflections on the Haftorah for Torah Portion Korach) ( I Samuel 11 :14-15 and 12 :1-22 ) A leader,...
Your chatbot will gladly compose a prayer for you. Provide enough detail, and that prayer can be personalized to include your name, your spouse and...
I admit that I have never found Pride activities to be particularly enjoyable, nor have I found a queer community to be a good fit most times. And at...
This past weekend, while diplomats finalized the terms of a memorandum meant to end the war between Israel, the United States, and Iran, roughly a...
I spent the better part of 2024 and 2025 on airplanes and in hotel rooms. Most of my dating took place while in transit. I almost avoided dating in...
In the corridors of power, from Washington to Jerusalem, we are witnessing a subtle yet profound shift in the architecture of the modern world. It is...
For decades, Western governments have claimed to support peace, international law, and historical truth in the Middle East. Yet when it comes to...
Rising above Fifth Avenue, Temple Emanu-El is the largest synagogue by size in the western hemisphere and one of New York City’s most iconic houses...
Israelis are no strangers to living with uncertainty. But there is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from repeatedly preparing for futures...
There is a venerable tradition in democratic life called protest. It is noisy, inconvenient, often theatrical, and at its best morally serious. It...
The end of Parshat Korach contains certain laws that were applicable only to the Kohanim and Leviim. This was placed there after the rebellion, now...
In the words of the redoubtable Nelson Muntz of “The Simpsons:” “Ha ha.” To the highly-vaunted Spanish squad, the consensus favorite to win...
Earlier this month, the payments company Stripe took a fifty-million-line codebase, the kind of sprawling, decades-deep software that a team of...
The European Union’s new Pact on Migration and Asylum entered into force on June 12, and Brussels is already treating it as a bureaucratic...
Anxiety thrives on unstructured attention. Mine certainly did. I found relief in an unexpected place. Daily Torah study has noticeably reduced my...
Our Gemara on Amud Aleph discusses an interesting case of animal anatomy and human psychology. By way of introduction, one of the forms of injury that...
As someone who suffers from a healthy dose of indecisiveness, I’m always interested in wisdom on making better decisions. One of my favorite books...
There has been a negotiated end to the war in Iran, but the volatile issues that triggered it have yet to be resolved. After nearly three months of...
How Netanyahu’s failed foreign policy strategy put Israel in danger and what we need to do to fix it Putting aside the details of the deal made by...
There is a card in my files. A copy of it, anyway. The original is held at the Ghetto Fighters’ House archive in Israel, and I have looked at it...
The cease-fire deal that Washington and Tehran announced on June 14, 2026, is a revelation rather than merely a diplomatic move. It reveals three...
Mike Leven knows the answer. He published it in eJewish Philanthropy on June 3rd, calm and confident and almost entirely without alarm. Tamim Academy...
Pride is supposed to be a celebration – A celebration of dignity. A celebration of identity. A celebration of belonging. For decades, LGBTQ...
The June 2026 state visit of Somaliland’s President, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (Irro), to Jerusalem marks a significant shift in Horn of Africa...
July 4th is unquestionably a Jewish holiday, just as it is an American holiday for all Americans. Once upon a time, I was giving a talk to the...
On Sunday, June 14, Major Rafael Rozenszajn, spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, delivered a lecture at Unibes Cultural on the so‑called...
Donald Trump seems ready to adopt a strikingly similar strategy, exchanging money for concessions, just months after harshly denouncing Barack...
Many dozens of haredi protesters rioted outside the home of Deputy Supreme Court President Noam Sohlberg, damaging his home and car, as part of...
The summer after my first year of college, I arrived at sleepaway camp for the first time in my life—not as a camper, but as a counselor. At...
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