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Honoring the Divine Image: A Message for International Human Rights Day

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Yakov Nagen

AEPi’s Response to Rising Antisemitism: Pride, Leadership, and Action

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Aaron Herman

Disarmament and Governance in Focus: Analyzing Gaza Peace Plan Phase Two

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Junaid Qaiser

Strategic Prudence in Israel–Russia Ties

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Ab Boskany

Israel: Never a Vacation; Always a Trip (Part 2 of 3)

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Ruth Kaplan

The Maghreb Nuclear Trap: Why the IAEA’s New Deal is a Strategic Catastrophe

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Amine Ayoub

The Mirage of Imported Peace

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Sabine Sterk

One year after Assad: Is the West celebrating a mirage?

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Faraj Alexandre Rifai

Covenant as a Separative Operator: Against Soft Universalism

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

The Sound of Silence That Failed Yosef

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Eliezer Simcha Weiss

The Netanyahu Trials – A Case Study in Lawfare

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Guy Samuel

Caring for Israel’s reservists and their families is an economic imperative

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Lavi Zamir

Something strange in the neighborhood

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Yoseph Janowski

Betrayed Aid: Redirect Jewish Giving

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Our Mother Rachel

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Kenneth Cohen

Schocken, Goethe’s Faust and Rabbi Nahman

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Gershon Hepner

Erasing Israel: The Quiet Rewrite That Reshaped Christianity

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Tim Orr

Hatred as a National Project: From the Middle East to the Western World

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Jeffrey Levine

Our Reluctance to Let Go of Hostage Square

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David-Seth Kirshner

In God We Trust: KANAANI Breed Is Being Reborn in the United States

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Mikhail Salita

How Inviting Outsiders Into Polarized Jewish State Led to the Diaspora

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Richard Diamond

Yehudah and Tamar / Boaz and Ruth: Déjà vu? (Vayeshev)

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J.j Gross

Not Justice at Any Cost: Why Israel Needs a “Graduated Pardon” Framework

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Yosef Zohar

Why Chanuka is Harder than it Looks

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Jonathan Muskat

Shabbat Shalom: A Non-Jewish Call for the World’s Oldest Sacred Gift

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David Nekrutman

Netanyahu the Great Pretender

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Nadav Tamir

The Morocco-Israel Tripartite Bargain at Five Years

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Adil Faouzi

Chanukah’s Forgotten War

Every year, Jews around the world light candles for eight nights and tell the same familiar story: When the Holy Temple was regained from the...

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Jonathan Lieberman

The Future of Jewish Peoplehood: Without Its Future

An event about the future of Jewish peoplehood should be full of its future. This one wasn’t. A concern that has been sitting quietly in the back...

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Karen Klein

The Silence on Arab Colonialism

In schools, documentaries, activism, and social movements, most discussions of colonialism focus on European empires—their expansion, forced...

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Monique Dietvorst

WTF is a Keffiyeh

It must have been twenty years ago now when I first saw a young person in the West wearing a keffiyeh, the traditional headdress associated with...

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Bassem Eid

The MOOPs take the Shomron

  Embed from Getty Images On December 7, a date which Frank Roosevelt said would live in infamy, 50 MOOP members set out for an excursion to the...

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Gary Epstein

Compromise as Inevitably Patronizing?

Compromise as Inevitably Patronizing?

Inspired by another visit to Dubai. Another Saturday morning at synagogue in Abu Dhabi and early evening at the Sheikh Zayed Mosque – this time...

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Harriet Gimpel

Freedom, Mastery, and Joseph: Whom Do You Serve?

Thomas Mann’s magnificent retelling of the Joseph saga captures something the Torah hints at but never states explicitly. In one unforgettable...

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Todd Berman

Hitler Marriages and Happy Places

If you live in Israel right now, you are probably watching Happy Place (Makom Sameach). The show follows Vered (played by Noa Koler), a speech...

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Leigh Hartzman

Leadership and Responsibility

Leadership and Responsibility

What Israel taught me this week about what it truly means to lead. Leadership is one of those words we use so easily that we forget what it costs....

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Claire R. Bright

The Court Is Wrong: Antizionism Is Discriminatory

The First Circuit Is Wrong: Antizionism Is Discrimination Against Jews On October 21, the First Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the Title VI...

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Rona Kaufman

From New York: Without international partners, science will fall short

Under the shadow of geopolitical tension and global uncertainty around the future of Israel, doubling down on international academic collaboration...

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Michael Waxman-Lenz

How the West’s $57 Billion Bailout Is Funding Egypt’s Next Disaster

How the West’s $57 Billion Bailout Is Funding Egypt’s Next Disaster

In the closing weeks of the year, Egypt staged a parliamentary election that was less a democratic exercise and more a choreographed formality....

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Amine Ayoub

‘Nuremberg,’ the ‘Idiots Guide to Genocide,’ that everyone should see

I would like to suggest that instead of the usual Festive-season fare – Santa frolics or vapid rom-coms – everyone should settle down with their...

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Jan Shure

Where Thresholds Meet

Where Thresholds Meet

On Illness, Intention, and the Meaning of a Jewish Doorway Not many people know this, but I had bladder cancer when I was 29 years old. Although...

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James H. Stein

Reconnecting – Parashat Va-yishlah 5786

So, as many of you know, Sharon and I are getting ready to celebrate, with God’s help, an incredible moment in our family’s life – our daughter’s...

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David Lerner

Who needs a state commission of inquiry?

The following are a few quotes, (complete, partial and paraphrases of current and past Israeli political leaders calling for the establishment of...

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Lonny Baskin

Israel’s Death Penalty Bill and Lapel Pin Glorify Killing and Sanctify Revenge

Israel’s Death Penalty Bill and Lapel Pin Glorify Killing and Sanctify Revenge

It was an abject abomination for lawmakers in the far-right Otzma Yehudit party to wear golden lapel pins in the shape of a noose during a recent...

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Michael Zoosman

Israel: Never a Vacation; Always a Trip (Part I of 3)

Israel: Never a Vacation; Always a Trip (Part I of 3)

Part One of a Three-Week Odyssey  It’s been over six years since I’ve been to Israel. Let’s just say, I was way overdue. My connections there...

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Ruth Kaplan

Tragedy to Resilience to Remembrance to Victory: Israel Reaches Out

Tragedy to Resilience to Remembrance to Victory: Israel Reaches Out

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Sunday, December 7, 2025, marked the conclusion of the Ambassador Summit, a weeklong conference in Jerusalem, bringing...

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Carrie Hart

Bahrain’s Silent Ride into Trump’s Arsenal

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

The MBS–Al Thani Meeting Accelerates IMEC: The Rail Line Redraws the Area Map

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Rafi Glick

Hanukkah Has Two Kinds of Jihad Also

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Allen S. Maller

Navigating the role of bystander: What can we do?

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Deborah Fripp