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I have been thinking about my mother during the Nine Days leading to Tisha Be’Av. Perhaps that is not a coincidence. Tisha Be’Av belongs to the...
Every civilization eventually learns that solving problems is difficult. Finding someone to blame is easy. History is filled with societies convinced...
The United States and Iran are enmeshed in a no-war, no-peace deadlock that could easily escalate into an all-out war again should there be no major...
The Middle East is approaching another historic crossroads. Reports that the United States and Saudi Arabia are preparing to conclude a civilian...
Every year on the ninth of Av we blame the victim. We hold ourselves accountable on the 9th of Av for the calamities that befall us. Every Av is an...
Chassidim, and the Rebbes of Chabad in particular, have long been accused of a certain naivete. Everything is good. Everything will be good. Always...
In the 2001 film The Believer, starring Ryan Gosling as Daniel “Danny” Balint, a Jewish-born neo-Nazi, the protagonist asks whether antisemites...
I believe that it has been close to twenty years that I lead a Tisha B’Av pilgrimage reading passages of Lamentations where either Jews or non-Jews...
The photo shows left-wing protesters demonstrating outside a conference held by Haaretz in London and extremist settlers who have broken into...
Every September, world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, a chance to speak on peace, justice, and to try to bring...
Parashat Va’etchanan Imagine this. You’re the CEO. You’ve led your organization through crisis after crisis: geopolitical turmoil, supply...
I begin this article with an odd statement, which is an idea I borrow from Mark Dubowitz, from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who believes...
Growing up in a small corner of Brooklyn, home to a community of ex-Soviet Jews, history wasn’t something confined to my textbooks; it was revealed...
Jordan Perry, the manager of Lake Theater & Cafe in Lake Oswego theater in suburban Portland, Oregon, is attempting to defend a cryptic marquee...
It is said in the Rig Veda, the oldest Hindu sacred text, that Truth is One but the Wise speak of it by many names. For anyone who’s ever visited...
Former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has condemned the proposed American nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia. In his view, a deal allowing...
DEFINING JEWISH DAY SCHOOL AND YESHIVA EXCELLENCE As we know, there are numerous definitions for the term excellence. They include words like...
There is a country I have never been to. And there is a war I have never fought. Even so, for a reason I searched for a long time to understand, that...
Smotrich’s Grammar of Absolute Victory Bezalel Smotrich has defined absolute victory. Not as a general promise to defeat Hamas or as a formula...
Jewish memory does not ask us to erase disagreement. It warns us not to destroy the bonds and institutions that allow us to survive it. As Tisha...
Israel has always punched above its weight when it comes to innovation, in business broadly and in tech specifically. For a country of under 10...
That was my first reaction to the news that J Street U — the campus organizing arm of J Street, run and staffed directly by the J Street Education...
Contemporary Context to Fasting and Lamenting American Jews should pay more attention to Tisha B’Av because it offers the raison d’etre for...
Moshe’s final monologue in the Book of Devarim is not merely a review of Jewish history. It is a lesson in Jewish destiny. Yet the order seems...
Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism: Ritual, Learning, and the Search for Renewal Few figures did more to reintroduce a sense of religious depth into Reform...
The extraordinary juxtaposition between the segment of this week’s Torah portion of Parshat Va’etchanan for the fourth day pertaining to the...
This summer, the climate crisis is not an abstract problem somewhere far away. It is showing up in our neighborhoods, our communities and our lives....
Artificial Intelligence is about to completely transform election campaigns. Not by changing democracy itself, but by changing what campaigns choose...
The new amendments by the Government of India to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act have once again created a stir regarding NGOs, foreign...
There’s an article in today’s Haaretz – Ideological Immigration….Hagai Agmon Snir, 7/22/26- about a couple leaving Israel because, as they see...
A dual UK-Israel national recently successfully defeated an attempt to prosecute him for serving in the IDF. In November 2025 a UK organisation called...
“Even though we are different colors, our blood is the same blood, our faith is the same faith. Don’t forget this. Don’t forget us.“ ...
The October 7 attacks exposed more than an intelligence lapse; they challenged the assumptions underpinning Israel’s modern defense strategy. The...
Any graduate of a respectable Israeli kindergarten has learned that the Second Temple was destroyed “because of baseless hatred.” Every adult...
Recognition of Somaliland is about more than diplomatic status. It would give Israel and its partners a reliable foothold near one of the world’s...
“Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.” —Sir Edwin Arnold It is easy to fall into a pattern....
A few years ago, I was head over heels for Political Guy, a DC man who could talk about foreign policy for hours. He would compliment me, take an...
Relations between Israel and Turkey, which began in 1949 as an unannounced regional alliance between two non-Arab powers in the Middle East, have...
As we once again approach the fast of the 9th of Av, we are again reminded of the causes of the destruction of the two Temples. The first Temple was...
Tish’ah B’Av is more relevant today than ever. Since the founding of the State of Israel and especially since the Six-Day War, there has been a...
The accusation that in the past “The Jews Killed The Prophets” is designed by a religious establishment to explain why their own current religious...
About a week ago, a colleague who was formerly a member of the Australian Greens, passed on a flier promoting a Jewish Greens Shabbat Potluck...
The Talmud tells a famous story about the destruction of the Second Temple. It did not start with a foreign army or a grand war. It started with a...
Last month, my family took a trip to Italy. We had never been there before, and we had a wonderful time. It was very hot, and the tourist sites were...
There are no tour guides left in Israel. There are only job seekers with guiding licenses, waiting by the phone for a tourism industry that has not...
Driving past a vacant advertising hoarding earlier today, I thought about the Oscar-winning movie “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” in...
I was recently traveling back from visiting friends when my flight was cancelled. As expected, the disruption left many fellow passengers frustrated,...
What We Still Don’t Know About Kashrut In Part I of Fins and Scales, Hooves and Cud, I explored a question that is easy to overlook. If every fish...
The ideal that was spoken of by the prophet Yechezkel, is that we get to the point where we see the fulfillment of, “You will be My people, and I...
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