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Kais Saied’s regime jails opponents, brands defunct parties as terrorists, and silences online voices, while university graduates riot for jobs and...
Dame Maureen Lipman has opened in London’s West End this week in Allegra, a new play written for her, about a woman of senior years who happily...
The story of Ida Sztamfater is a living testimony to how Holocaust memory and the resilience inherited from her mother shaped a life dedicated to care...
We hear it a lot … about how the gap year in Israel has been a transformative event for post-high school students and how it has given young men and...
Over the past few months, we have witnessed unprecedented success and cooperation between the US, Israel, and Gulf states, especially with regard to...
Your statement on Gaza asks British Jews to accept a familiar bargain: first, a solemn paragraph about antisemitism; then, a policy program aimed...
A former Ichilov Hospital spokesman recently revealed that years ago, at Mossad’s request and with prime ministerial approval, an Israeli physician...
This week’s parashah is a double portion, Matot–Masei. My focus today is on a story from the first of these, Parashat Matot, which opens with...
Effortlessly, Astronaut put his arm around me as he spoke to my friends. It occurred to me he was getting to know them. We had just watched Colombia...
A few months ago, I sat with some friends and we talked about the upcoming elections. I’m the one who understands politics a bit more, so I asked...
Why did Democratic Party leadership look past a Maine Senate candidate with a Nazi tattoo? The question is striking because Holocaust films have...
The bill now before the Knesset that would elevate Torah study into Basic Law and effectively treat it as a substitute for traditional sherut leumi or...
As a Jew in Colorado right now I am still afraid. Last week after Melat Kiros won the Democratic nomination for Colorado’s 1st Congressional...
The old case, the new audience Earlier this week, I wrote that Benjamin Netanyahu had delivered, twice in one day and with undiminished skill, an...
“I’m sorry if this is a stupid question…” I hear some version of that sentence almost every time I teach. Before my students can finish...
Mr. Raphael Wahl writes with a profound sadness from his desk in Europe, lamenting that he is “afraid of falling out of love with Israel” and...
Press freedom remains a cherished right for all democracies, whether they are nascent or fully fledged ones. In Draconian societies, like modern-day...
JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL c. 500 Chillufei Minhagim: A Written Record of Jewish Customs in the Land of Israel The Chillufei Minhagim is a...
Let me share a piece of my week with you, because I am still a little undone by it. I got to hold my grandson. אמיתי שלום, a week into his...
The Nahal Sekhakha Tunnels: An Ancient Water Engineering Project in the Judean Desert? In 1958, Professor Yigael Yadin—the renowned archaeologist...
Mesopotamia, the cradle of modern civilization, also known as “the land between two rivers,” was a vast and fertile region situated between the...
Modern life trains you to notice problems, pressure and negativity all day long. This leads you to frustration and emotional exhaustion. G-d created...
Did you catch the error in the title? The Declaration of Independence enshrines several rights which are, to use the Declaration’s own words,...
The latest tit for tat skirmishes between the United States and Iran, plus the bitter war of words these battles have set off, point to one...
The chant “From the River to the Sea” is a catchy refrain popularized by those who seek to deny the Jewish people—the indigenous people of the...
David Horovitz’ “plea to the Prime Minister” about the government’s decision to refuse to honor the Supreme Court’s ruling returning the...
Americans living overseas can vote for the same basic reasons as voters in the US. You can vote in Federal Midterm Elections, for Congress and some...
In a recent conversation with a rabbinic friend and colleague—a discussion that echoed many others I have had over the years—I remarked that I...
Another World Cup, another opportunity to get excited and dream again. For those readers who are new, let me introduce myself. I’m Ariana, and I’m...
It’s one thing to point out the very real challenges modern women face in dating. It’s quite another to say it’s all his fault. Much is being...
Some observant Jews describe the same experience. There was a period when observance was vivid. And then, some years later, the vividness thinned. The...
Matos Masei 5786 – David Lemmer The combination of these two Parshiyot is one to behold. To preface this essay I will start with this: I sit down to...
Chulin 72 — “Labor of Love” Our Gemara on Amud Aleph discusses Torah and rabbinic rulings regarding the circumstances that a midwife would be...
How will the continued influx of foreign workers affect Israeli society? A country once in conversation about whether it aspires to the Scandinavian...
With the US-Iranian ceasefire breaking down, and President Trump declaring the MOU “over,” there is major uncertainty about what’s next. But...
There are diplomatic visits that pass quietly, leaving behind only protocol photographs and polite statements. And there are visits that raise a...
Hitting to negotiate: the new US bet on Iran. The new US strikes against Iran, since July 6, 2026, give the impression of a brutal return to military...
The hyped dispute between OpenAI and Elon Musk may appear, at first glance, to be just another battle between technology giants. Beneath the...
The young are not abandoning a living world. They are watching adults turn sacred fragments into excuses for avoiding shared responsibility. There is...
When the neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp began tickling laboratory rats in the late 1990s and discovered they produced ultrasonic chirps functionally...
For more than a century, the Middle East has been synonymous with oil. It has shaped economies, redrawn alliances, funded wars, built cities and drawn...
By the time this is published, more than 600 FZY chanichim will be waking up in Israel. Sixteen buses. The largest Israel Tour in FZY’s history....
A lot of us pro-Israel Democrats are understandably anxious when they see DSA candidates winning primaries. I am not and here is why: The DSA is loud,...
In a recent poll, many US Jews feel that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Presumably many of them see public opinion increasing against Israel; and...
Somaliland’s Sovereignty Is Not a Phantom or a Dream — It Is a Recorded Historical Fact When Somaliland became the 14th independent African nation...
It was fitting that Zionist leaders from around the world gathered in Budapest in June. As the birthplace of Theodor Herzl and home to one of...
The latest report from State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman is not merely a bureaucratic critique; it is a siren song of warning regarding the...
For decades, Ethiopia has relied on Djibouti for more than 95% of its maritime trade. While the corridor has provided dependable access to global...
Rahm Emanuel didn’t come to lecture Israel. He came to warn it. Speaking in front of a packed auditorium at the Anu Museum on the campus of Tel Aviv...
In the volatile theater of the Horn of Africa, the Republic of Somaliland has long stood out as a beacon of peace, democratic stability, and...
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