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I’m confused. All the couch Johnny-come-lately foreign policy experts are in an uproar and I can’t understand why. The Iran war two week ceasefire...
Hungary’s upcoming parliamentary election is not a distant European affair. For Israelis and Jews around the world, it raises a difficult question:...
A true story. Back in the 1970s a Soviet Jew seated at a Moscow Seder table felt an urge. He recalled a fellow Jew who’d been imprisoned for...
In the Arab world, some policies are managed with the attention span of a coffee break and a short institutional memory. Crises erupt, are hastily...
As a psychologist and behavioral analyst, I read the subtle signals people leave behind—in their choices, the institutions they trust, and the...
Some British holidaymakers in late 1938 and 1939 must have seen the Kindertransports arrive in Harwich. After recently receiving a postcard of...
There is a specific kind of 3 a.m. that belongs only to Israel. Wednesday’s 3 a.m. was one of them. It began with two missiles over Jerusalem. Then,...
I took a shower this morning, a long, hot, luxurious shower. I know that this sounds mundane (I do shower daily), but I assure you, it was not. I live...
Iran says that they want a permanent end to the the many violent conflicts of the Near East. The 1979 peace treaty signed by Israeli Prime Minister...
At a moment when one after another the stories meant to shield political incompetence, moral inertia, and a catastrophic failure of imagination are...
There is a quiet crisis unfolding in Israel — one that triggers no sirens, interrupts no broadcasts, and rarely makes headlines. Yet it is no less...
My dear friends in England, while we in Israel experience direct rocket attacks from our visible enemies, you unfortunately live among unseen enemies...
After the Mishkan’s dramatic debut ends in fire, tragedy, and silence, the Torah quietly moves holiness off the stage and into everyday life....
As a committed Zionist who has attempted to counteract the lies promoted by the global anti Israel cult since October 7, provide a balanced factual...
Until I became the patient, I never truly understood the Mitzvah of Bikkur Cholim – visiting the sick. I had always thought of it as clearly a very...
Israel has one condition of survival: the ability to fight, to continue, and to prevail on its own. Not with the help of others. Not in dependency....
On February 25, 2026, on American soil, something small happened — and yet, not small at all. A Kanaani pair, Haifa and Arbuz, gave birth to two...
Honesty is one of those virtues we love to claim for ourselves. It is clean, noble, uncomplicated. It means telling the truth, being transparent, and...
In 2018, the United States walked away from the Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The 2015 agreement that President...
I first traveled to Israel more than 40 years ago, returning ebullient, as if I had just discovered a missing piece of my identity. With a group of...
HELSINKI – At a time when global health systems are under unprecedented strain, as a medical doctor and public health researcher, I was given an...
Or Will Robots Replace Our Fairweather Friends? ne, but because of all this talk about AI and robots taking people’s jobs, seeing the driverless...
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his government to immediately begin direct peace negotiations with the Lebanese...
A familiar commentary is taking shape in the wake of recent wars in the United States and Israel. The wars did not achieve their stated aims. The...
Nearly two weeks ago, an unnamed 14-year-old Israeli citizen was indicted on espionage charges for allegedly carrying out tasks for Iranian...
SUBHEAD Glenn Cohen, who oversaw the debriefing of all surviving hostages, says their fortitude should inspire Israelis who’ve been enduring...
I want to tell you about the happiest little girl in the world. She had a young mother, whom she adored. A widely respected father, whom she idolized....
The ceasefire announced on 8 April between Washington and Tehran has been called, variously, a triumph, a fig leaf and a trap. It is in fact none of...
As someone who spent 16 years of his life growing up in the Soviet system, I know what state silence sounds like. In the Soviet Union, silence was not...
“Open the Strait of Hormuz — or there will be consequences unlike anything seen before.” That was, in essence, the message from the President of...
With the recent Iran War ceasefire agreement, it’s hard to know whether to employ the present tense or past tense. As the war is not officially over...
We are not reading about war. We are living inside it. I bumped into some neighbours last night, one of those casual encounters that begins with a few...
Yom HaShoah in Miami used to draw hundreds of Holocaust survivors to gatherings across the city, including outdoor ceremonies at the Holocaust...
Part 4 of 4: The day Lithuanians could no longer murder Jews with impunity In Part 1, I decoded the formula Nazis, Soviets, and collaborators — the...
Iran’s bar for victory was survival. It survived. Approximately 440 kilograms of enriched uranium — enough, if further enriched, for ten or more...
From the largest uprising in modern Iranian history in January to more than a month of relentless American and Israeli strikes, the past three months...
In recent weeks, Israeli society and especially our homelife has undergone a profound emotional upheaval. The war with Iran brought a roller coaster...
Mark Twain once marvelled at the Jews — how a people so small could outlast empires so vast. Kingdoms rose, ruled, and disappeared; the Jews,...
Musings on rockets, Bibi, Trump, the mullahs… and everyone and everything else that lately kept me awake nights Freshly righted, this car was blown...
It was supposed to be a smooth end to a long journey. Since the catastrophic incident of the Golden Calf, the Jewish people had been treading a...
Passover is not about what happened once in history. It is about what is happening inside you right now. Therefore, the most important thing about...
Israeli fintech exits didn’t just grow in 2025; they went parabolic against the grain of a global venture capital winter. While international...
There are moments in history when distance becomes irrelevant, when identity transcends geography, and the heart refuses to disconnect. Dora Kadisha...
Regime Change or Regime Survival? The Contradiction Is Deadly Call it a ceasefire. Call it negotiation—it is neither mercy nor peace. It is a pause...
Plurality Bloc-List Voting (PBLV) vs. Party-List Proportional Representation (List-PR) Israel’s current and longstanding election system functions...
Counting What Counts: A Reflection for the Omer If someone broke into your home to steal your most valuable possession, how would you respond? You...
I see you are once again in the headlines for the wrong reasons, facing backlash over years-old comments, for which you have already apologized. And I...
It is a small yellow vase. And it is the only object from Europe that I still possess. The vase was given to my grandmother, Dora, from Dortmund,...
Many fund managers pursuing a ‘responsible investment’ strategy have weapons exclusion policies. Some are now rewriting those policies to...
A simple glass bowl filled with burnt pencil shards — fragments of what once held words, ideas, and meaning. Charred and splintered, they evoke, at...
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