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Where Missiles Fall, Science Sprouts: The Story of a Promising Discovery

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Julian Schvindlerman

Staff Sgt. Adam Agmon: A Warrior with the Heart of an All Black

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Elliot Timothy

On the Pan-Arab Origins of the Palestinian Flag

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Shlomo Pereira

Jacob’s Wells, And The “Philistines” Who Try To Plug Them

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Pinny Arnon

Wait What? 46% of All IDF Exemptions Go to “Secular” Israelis?

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Yosef Eitan

Istanbul’s Near-Deal Boosts Hamas for Round Five

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Abraham Stands. Joseph Keeps Standing

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Tim Orr

Decency instead of Descent

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William Hamilton

Wasting Courage… Providence remains

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Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Trump Drops a Ukraine–Russia PEACE Plan. Will It Work?

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Gregory Lyakhov

Arab politics and UN consensus paralysis erases Israel from Mediterranean map

The Union for the c (UfM) was created to be the great bridge between Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East — a place where shared challenges...

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Karin Kloosterman

Red Sea Chaos: Sudan’s War Threatens Israel’s Arc

Red Sea Chaos: Sudan’s War Threatens Israel’s Arc

Sudan is bleeding to death, and the world shrugs. But this is not just another African civil war forgotten by Western diplomats who cannot find...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Into the fray: From lords to lemmings – Israel’s legal elites on the brink

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Martin Sherman

October 7, Hamas attack on Israel and Bataclan massacre in 2015 are connected.

 October 7, 2023, Hamas’s attack on Israel and Bataclan massacre in Paris in 2015 are committed by radical Islamists. On November 13, 2015, the...

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Lazar Ersh

The Trump–MBS Roadmap to Peace and Modernization

The Trump–MBS Roadmap to Peace and Modernization

In Washington, President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman delivered a striking display of confidence, camaraderie, and...

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Junaid Qaiser

About GENERATION THETA

Boredom , a rampant epidemic in the New-Age Abundance, further de- transcendentalises the vast (silent and vocal) majorities of anonymized Society...

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Chaim Meyer Scheff

The Moon, the Ram, and Dinah: Three Substitutes, One Hidden Feminine Sacrifice

At the dawn of creation, the sky held two equal lights. “וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים אֶת שְׁנֵי הַמְּאֹרוֹת...

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Diversity and Complementarity

Diversity and Complementarity

The Talmud Berachot 58a teaches that upon seeing a crowd of six hundred thousand people, one must recite a blessing praising God for having created...

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Saul Paves

Circular vs. Hierarchical: Rethinking Gender Power

We’ve all heard the narrative: men hold power because male social structures are hierarchical—Jordan Peterson has explained this in detail. Men...

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Monique Dietvorst

Getting Cancer Shattered My Illusion That I Was Special

Getting Cancer Shattered My Illusion That I Was Special

I never thought I would get cancer.  Actually, more accurately, I never gave it a single thought. Even as I passed into middle age, I felt...

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Martin Alintuck

Don’t worry, Israel will be just fine. And the world too.

It’s like suspended animation. The war is mostly over. Israel defeated Iran and its proxies. The last living hostages are out of Gaza. An...

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Yoseph Janowski

It’s Always Possible to Change

The rabbinic tradition portrays Yaakov and Esav as two sharply contrasting personality types. Even their manner of speaking is interpreted as a...

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Mordechai Silverstein

‘The Tortoise and the Hare’: Toledot 5786

“The Tortoise and the Hare” is one of the most well-known of Aesop’s fables. It is a timeless tale of arrogance versus endurance: the cocky...

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Ari Sacher

Growing Forward

Growing Forward

On October 7, 2023, the western side of the kibbutz — the neighborhood where our young adults lived — suffered the heaviest blows. If you look back...

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Adele Raemer

Isaac, the Genocide Libel, and the Persistence of Antisemitism

Jews are sometimes accused of finding antisemitism everywhere, even when it does not exist. There is some truth to this claim; no less an authority...

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Daniel Z. Feldman

Polls, Peace, and Partnership

Do public opinion polls actually reflect genuine public opinion? I am frequently asked about public opinion in Israel and in Palestine – especially...

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Gershon Baskin

‘We would not be who we are without the graduates of the Yemin Orde Mechina’

“On behalf of the State of Israel, I would like to honor you today—your contribution to the country’s security, its social resilience, its economy,...

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Asaf Carmel

My Grandparents’ Legacy and the West Bank

My Grandparents’ Legacy and the West Bank

The images of young Israelis in the West Bank brandishing guns and clubs, killing Palestinian farmers, torching their crops and property, makes me...

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Marc Kornblatt

The World Has Spoken: It’s Time to Take Care of Us

After I published “ When Our Children Hide Their Stars, It’s Gone Too Far, ” a few people reached out and asked, “What can we do?” The truth...

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Steve Freedman

Michael Eisenberg on Israel’s Trillion-Dollar Future

I call on all of you, readers of Sapir in the Diaspora, to bring your capital, talents, networks, and sense of purpose to a Jewish state that...

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Saul Paves

Naming Ourselves: From Exile Labels to Indigenous Clarity

Naming Ourselves: From Exile Labels to Indigenous Clarity

For a people with a history as old and as dispersed as ours, language has never been just communication. It has always been identity management,...

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Morgane Koresh

Cremation: It Isn’t Just About Money

When people say they’re choosing cremation because it’s cheaper, they’re not wrong. Traditional burials can easily cost upward of $25,000 once...

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Jonathan Jaffe Bernhard

Like Father like Son: Yitzhak and Esav would give anything for a meal (Toledot)

In last week’s parsha, Hayei Sarah, we can detect a remarkable parallel between our second Patriarch, Yitzhak, and his favorite son, Esav....

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J.j Gross

Celebrating Three Events on One Trip To Israel

Celebrating Three Events on One Trip To Israel

When you have children and grandchildren living far away, you tend to always be planning or waiting for the next trip. As our daughter, son-in-law...

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Miriam Kaplan Aron

Western Journalism Has a Hamas Problem

Israel is a fascist, colonialist, apartheid state conducting a campaign of genocide. Hamas are Palestinian freedom fighters. These twisted notions...

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Andrew Fogel

How the Boy Crisis Fuels Antisemitism

Featured Video: The blog includes a featured video interview with Canadian Parental Alienation expert Dr. Christine Giancarlo, an authority on...

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Monique Dietvorst

Planting Daffodils: An Opportunity to Remember and Build Community Camaraderie

Planting Daffodils: An Opportunity to Remember and Build Community Camaraderie

On two beautiful New York autumn mornings recently, camaraderie and caring described the scenes at Morningside Park and Campground in Fallsburg and...

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Hope Blecher

The King James Bible and Its Flaws

Very few books have had a profound impact on humanity and hold an enduring, influential place in people’s minds and behaviors, such as the King...

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Israel Drazin

US-Saudi Summit: Hurdles Remain, Yet Diplomatic Progress is Possible

As President Trump welcomes Saudi Crown Prince to the White House this week, what will both leaders hope to achieve? President Trump will seek...

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Ted Gover

November 29 is the Day We Chose Life

November 29 is the Day We Chose Life

In the never-ending debate over who has the legitimate right to the land, Palestinian activists open up our Bible to shame us. They retell the time...

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Robert Lichtman

To Live Like We Mean It

In the past week, I published two essays exploring the future of Jewish life. The first, Why Don’t We All Just Go? , asked what would happen if...

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Shlomi Bennett

Those deserving the death penalty for October 7 are dead already

Antisemites call us evil, but for us, ethics should be our middle name In a democracy, the majority decides, but not on everything. For that, we...

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

The Big Lie Returns

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Maccabi Lev Ari

When Will We Weigh the Needs of History?

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Michel M.j. Shore

Tehran’s Thirst: Regime’s Final Exam

Tehran’s Thirst: Regime’s Final Exam

The following piece was join authored by Grant Arthur Gochin and Karmel Melamed. Tehran, November 2025 – The city’s five lifeline dams cling to 11%...

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Karmel Melamed

MBS, Trump and Netanyahu Take the Stage Toward a New Regional Horizon

A delegation of 1,000 people will accompany Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on his visit to the United States on Tuesday — including...

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Rafi Glick

Why the Fear of Mamdani? Is it Justified?

66% of the New York Jews voted for Andrew Cuomo while 33% voted for Zohran Mamdani.  It seems quite clear that many of those who voted for Cuomo...

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Hillel Schenker

An Absent State and Missing Questions

By a strange twist of fate, one of my daughters is called after Hadar Goldin, the captured Israeli soldier whose body was recently returned by...

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Ofra Kaplan

B’shaa tova -Timing

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Yulia Medovoy Edelshtain

Does Mother Mary Need a Modern Title?

What title should the mother of a son who is a part of a Divine trinity, have? The Vatican’s doctrinal office said the titles of “Co-Redemptrix”...

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Allen S. Maller