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Washington signals that decades of hesitation are over — and that the balance of power in the Middle East may be shifting decisively in...
A German academic said it quietly at a faculty gathering in Frankfurt last week. The conversation had turned to Alternative for Germany (AfD) and to...
On April 7, Iron Dome turned fifteen. Over 10,000 combat intercepts. A success rate exceeding ninety per cent. And yet the most consequential fact...
There is a strange kind of exhaustion that comes from living in an age where everyone is certain about everything. Every day brings another...
A man allegedly walked through Berlin last spring, systematically scouting a kosher supermarket and a Jewish food merchant. He was allegedly mapping...
More than 60 years ago, at a seminar held at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal in June 1964, the celebrated singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen cried...
In geopolitics, adaptation builds strength while rigid ideology breeds stagnation and defeat. Israel demonstrates this principle through measurable...
For many readers, the one anti-Israel allegation that deserved closer scrutiny in Nicholas Kristof’s recent New York Times column blew the entire...
A number of years ago, a prominent Jewish educator gave a shiur with the central theme that the Book of Ruth has no real antagonists. Everyone, the...
A Historical Deception Endures As an individual deeply invested in Israel’s story, a student of history, and someone who has personally experienced...
The Follow Clearly Demonstrates Why Independent Outsiders Must Investigate Rabbinic Misconduct Anglican Watch’s most recent article titled,...
One fact that is continuously being ignored, is that Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is rounding up individuals and...
The longue durée of Indo-maritime stewardship – where the Mauryan embrace of statecraft, the Chola command of the Indian Ocean, and the Srivijayan...
There is a stereotype so pervasive, so deeply embedded in the global consciousness, that even many Jewish people have internalized it without...
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including gonorrhoea and syphilis have hit record levels in Europe, according to new data. Gonorrhoea hit...
During a 30-hour window starting June 11 and ending June 12, Jeffrey Lee is scheduled to be executed in Alabama by nitrogen-gassing or “nitrogen...
Shavuot: The Torah was not given to be explained, but inhabited Shavuot is usually remembered as the festival of the giving of the Torah. But if we...
Today’s global brands love presenting themselves as “moral actors” not just economic powerhouses. They do this through “Corporate Social...
Shavuot represents one of the most profound moments in spiritual development: the receiving of the method for revealing the Creator within human...
In 1967, on the 28th of Iyar in the Hebrew calendar, Colonel (Motta) Gur, leading the 55th Paratroopers Reserve Brigade, fought their way to the...
Much to Israel’s detriment, Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir pulled off an asinine and embarrassing stunt that never should...
Recently, B’nai Brith Canada released its flagship Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents and, sadly, revealed that Jew-hatred has continued to...
“In March 1963, Pakistan did something rare. It handed over land five times the size of Hong Kong to another country, China. Under a boundary...
Shavuot, the Science of Wonder, and the Sacred Art of Rest There is something profoundly counterintuitive about Shavuot. It is the holiday of...
October 7th 2023 saw Hamas terrorists from Gaza enter Israel to murder 1,200 souls and take a further 250 hostage. At the time of the terrorist attack...
וכל העם רואים את הקולות… וינועו ויעמדו מרחוק And all the people saw the thunder… and they trembled and stood...
California judge Gassia Apkarian has ordered Kars4Kids to stop airing its jingle in the state unless the Jewish car-donation charity discloses that...
The legal basis for Somaliland’s claim to statehood rests on the flawed union formed in 1960 between the State of Somaliland (former British...
The Baltic cold has a way of entering the body slowly. In Dragør harbor, the February wind rolled off the Øresund with a bitterness that settled...
A Yemeni Journalist Was Ordered Freed. Aden Said No. Riyadh Cannot Look Away. On November 19, 2023, freelance journalist Naseh Shaker arrived in Aden,...
On May 18, 2026, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine shared news that deserves more than a ceremonial headline. In Anatevka, a Jewish community near Kyiv...
Every day on the internet is a blessing, albeit rarely in disguise. Especially if you’re using X. Especially if you’re talking about Israel. And...
When Ground Ceases to Be Ground There are books that can be rejected only after they have been read. Eyal Weizman has written such a book....
In the Book of Ruth, Naomi returns to Yehudah from Moab with nothing. No husband, no sons, no future. She tells the women of Bethlehem to stop calling...
For many of my friends in the United States, Israel has become an increasingly contested subject. Some see it as a democratic society struggling to...
The Torah’s account of Sinai is not gentle. Neither is my account of growing into manhood. Much like our ancestors’ experience receiving the Torah...
A Lithuanian state archive preserves the orders signed by my grandfather during the Holocaust: the seizure of Jewish property, the confinement of...
On this holy season of Shavuot, when heaven once bent low enough for human hands to touch eternity, we remember that the Torah was never merely given...
“Zeh hayom asah Hashem, nagilah v’nismecha bo.” “This is the day Hashem made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24) King David...
Shavuot—beginning tonight—is our annual occasion to revisit the meaning of “Torah” and our relationship to it. In Ramban‘s teaching, it’s...
It’s been one year since antisemitism stole the lives of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky. Sarah and Yaron were two bright, passionate young...
Various reputable media outlets recently reported that Hamas leadership has called for the kidnapping of IDF soldiers following the two death penalty...
Australia’s Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, is entitled to expect that detainees intercepted aboard the Gaza flotilla be treated appropriately and...
According to Jewish tradition, King David, who ruled for 40 years was born as well as passed away on Shavuot. David was the youngest of Yishai’s...
The mainstream political left demonstrates a particular form of antisemitism. It is not overt hostility, but something harder to identify: motivated...
Two and a half months ago, Yosef Zissels sent me a letter. Zissels is a veteran figure of Ukrainian Jewry, a former Soviet dissident, and I met him...
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller The Torah makes a straightforward connection...
“Jerusalem syndrome” is a term referring to a cluster of religiously oriented psychological phenomena and acute psychotic episodes associated with...
Lieutenant General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, commander of Uganda’s 45,000-strong army and son of President Yoweri Museveni, recently did what no European...
This week, international media outlets reported that the Iranian Parliament is reportedly considering a legislative proposal offering a €50 million...
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