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On Passover, Jews recite Dayenu — a hymn of cumulative gratitude. Had God only brought us out of Egypt but not split the sea, it would have been...
What if the story we’ve been told about the conflict between Israel and Iran is missing a critical piece? What if the narrative skewed heavily...
Strategic Calculus, Systemic Risk, and the Mispricing of the World’s Most Important Waterway As the Iran conflict enters its fifth week, President...
On March 30, 2026, at the opening of the Egypt Energy Show (EGYPS 2026) in Cairo, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi delivered a remarkable public appeal...
In October 1991, the Madrid Conference convened at the initiative of Secretary of State James Baker and under the joint auspices of US President...
The State of Israel has proposed that the United States plant permanent military bases on its territory. Jerusalem wants Washington to relocate...
In connection with Safe Rooms, Home Front Command Guidelines refer to Four Children: The Compliant Child enters the Safe Room when a Red Alert sounds,...
On March 30, 2026, the Israeli Knesset voted 62 to 47 to mandate death by hanging for West Bank Palestinians convicted of carrying out deadly attacks....
There’s a moment many people have when they first encounter postmodernism—not in a classroom, but in real life. You hear the language, the...
The “Four Questions” or “Mah Nishtana” had its origin in the Mishna in Masechet Psachim. It is not really limited to children, as the...
This teaching is one of the earliest values instilled in us as children and an anthem of our youth. Yet over time, what begins as a simple and...
Survival of the Fittest: The Cultural Divide the West Still Pretends Doesn’t Exist There is a truth Western societies have spent decades avoiding...
A Region Defined by Visibility Airborne early warning has always been the quiet backbone of stability in the Gulf. In a region shaped by dense air...
If you saw someone moving through a dark house with a candle, searching for crumbs, it might look strange. On the night before Passover, though, that...
Reality does not have to complete its development through some catastrophic explosion. The process described in the sources as the War of Gog and...
The State That Weakens Itself: Compression, Not Confidence On March 30, 2026, the Knesset passed the Penal Law (Amendment – Death Penalty for...
Today, two and a half years after October 7th, in the midst of a war with Iran, another war with Hezbollah, and a world that feels increasingly...
“Go and Learn”: What the Passover Seder Has Always Known About Education Every year at my cousin’s Passover Seder, the same ritual played out....
You oppose the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” You see it as political, heavy-handed, and a superpower flexing its...
Every year, we sit at the Seder table and tell the story of leaving Egypt. We recall slavery, the miracles, and the moment of liberation. It is...
In August 2023, just four months after Sudan’s civil war erupted, I left Israel, my refuge country, for eastern Chad. Then, as a staff member of...
Amid the turmoil and conflict that engulfs our world, a few beacons of light have emerged, individuals who remained steadfast in their support for...
There are moments in the life of a political community when the narrative that sustained it begins, quietly, to shift. What once functioned as a...
I try to write at the end of each day. It helps me organize my thoughts. Today, I chose to share a three moments that deeply moved me. In recent...
PRAGUE – The story of the Jewish Hospital near the Spanish Synagogue in Prague reflects a unique intersection of architecture, culture, and...
What if the best weapon against antisemitism wasn’t a counterattack—but a story? That’s the radical, hopeful bet that Deborah Apeloig has been...
We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” from Israel and abroad, join the members of T’ruah: The Rabbinic...
In 2025, a year before the passing of the philosopher and writer Jean-Pierre Faye, a conversation brought together his son, Emmanuel Faye, and the...
I’m writing this three days before Pessach. The weather has been unpredictably cold, and once again, our lives have been turned upside down by war....
A Personal Reflection In my life, a certain inner line has gradually taken shape, one that I did not fully recognize before, and only now, as I am...
Time spent in a shelter raises an unsettling question: are we simply at war—or witnessing something larger? As I sat in the shelter of my building...
My wife and I had come to Israel for our first grandchild’s wedding, expecting to stay only ten days. Instead, that very Shabbos, the current war...
Every year, in the days before Yom HaShoah, members of Beth Tzedec’s Men’s Club deliver yellow yahrzeit candles to the doors of Jewish homes...
Every year we gather at Passover and welcome you to join us. Some of us prepare our tables for you with beautiful Passover dishes, silver, and linens....
This post is first in a series that will explore what it is like to be a Zionist in an antizionist small town in upstate New York. Welcome to Ithaca,...
The Haggada of Pesach night tells a story of absolute divine agency. God acts; Israel receives. So deliberately does the text place redemption in...
As Pesach draws near we are still at war. Loved ones are in precarious places and many will not be sitting at the table with whom they had planned....
Every year we recount the story of all of the greatest rabbis who gathered in Bnei Brak to share in the Seder together: מַעֲשֶׂה...
On March 18, Senate Intelligence Committee members grilled National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard on a misguided question: Did Iran pose...
We, the Jews, make quite a big deal of the Passover holiday. According to one Pew Research survey, the Seder (a ritualized meal in which we retell the...
Every great story has the same shape: a beginning, a conflict, and a resolution. We feel this instinctively. We lean forward during the tension and...
After the cruel injustices that we have seen perpetrated upon the people of Iran by their dictatorial government, with over 30,000 murdered over just...
In recent weeks, social media has once again been buzzing about Barcelona’s District 11. Officially, this once-cosmopolitan Catalan city on the...
It is as though Netanyahu and Trump have no prior experience with a war against true believing Muslims. Gaza is still going on for 2 1/2 years: this...
Every day in Israel, sirens interrupt ordinary life. Families stop what they are doing and run to bomb shelters. The missiles being launched toward...
From Wilderness to War: A Passover Reflection on Presence, Dignity, and What We Carry Forward 2026 Passover Reflection (1) The Passover story does not...
Perhaps now, with the Middle East engulfed in war we can reexamine issues that seemed so crucial just a few months ago with a perspective that eluded...
Yesterday (March 29th, 2026), in the middle of a war, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa was briefly stopped by an Israeli police officer from entering...
There were two ways to go. One path looked clearer, less muddy, and more manageable. Of course, I chose that one. And yet, after a while, it didn’t...
Amidst the ongoing war in Lebanon, the Lebanese foreign ministry has declared Iran’s ambassador-designate Mohammad Reza Shibani persona non grata...
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