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Yom HaZikkaron: Remember Me

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D. Tzvi Trenk

Never Forget? Oh, They Forgot!

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Andrei Schwartz

A Home Run, Pitch and Question for a New Year

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Ezra Shanken

A Corner Office View on 9/11

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Alan Newman

Shofar: Portal to Creation

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Yulia Medovoy Edelshtain

Don’t Dismantle. Build.

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Michael A. Jacobs

The Hero in Seat 9B

The Hero in Seat 9B
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Tessa Veksler

Mahdi and Messiahs Will Come to a Much Hotter Planet

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Allen S. Maller

Remembering 9/11 Means Remembering Why

Remembering 9/11 Means Remembering Why
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Richard D. Gitlin

Israel Should Lead the Pacific AI Agenda

Israel Should Lead the Pacific AI Agenda
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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Hebrew to the world: AI voice tech is bridging the world’s linguistic divides

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Michelle Uadra

Bound Forever

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Jonathan Horowitz

Shalom Brothers: What Anger is For (Ha’azinu)

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Noam Raucher

Who is Mary Jane Arnold?

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Clifford Rieders

When Words Become Cheap, Communication Becomes Valuable

When Words Become Cheap, Communication Becomes Valuable
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David Ross

With the British Government playing their hand, a distraction has been removed

The British Government’s declaration that the West Bank occupation is illegal, accompanied by a host of sanctions for the settlements should not...

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Eli Margulis

Life is short but not futile: Rosh Hashana 5787

Early one June morning, I received a text message from my friend Howard’s wife, Sandy, asking if we could speak as soon as possible. The news was...

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Steven Saks

‘It Was Good’: Borrowing God’s Own Method of Self-Evaluation This New Year

A small detail in the creation story is easy to read right past. After each stage of creation, the text pauses. God looks at what was just made and...

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Benny A. Benjamin

Political discourse is starting to turn rancid in the UK

Political discourse is starting to turn rancid in the UK

In recent years, British public discourse has become more hostile and polarised. Politicians, journalists, academics, employers, public servants, and...

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Ed Moss

Sudan Is Dividing Quietly: Is the War Creating Two States?

Sudan Is Dividing Quietly: Is the War Creating Two States?

The Dual Realities of a Collapsing State Military and Territorial Fragmentation Emergence of Parallel Governance Foreign Interests and Regional...

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Amine Ayoub

Forgiveness Requires Tikun/Short Vidui 5787

Here are my Rosh HaShana thoughts for 5786 and this year’s short vidui (confession). We have already been reciting our penitential prayers in places...

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Arik Ascherman

Hallelujah for the Liberal Soul of Zionism

This the Erev Rosh HaShanah 5787 sermon, “Hallelujah for the Liberal Soul of Zionism,” delivered by Rabbi Steven Goldstein at The Reform Temple of...

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Steven Goldstein

Britain’s Tough Approach To Israeli Settlements

The current Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, labors under the grand illusion that its controversial settlement policy in...

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Sheldon Kirshner

Nineteen Months. Then Five Days.

Nineteen Months. Then Five Days.
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Uriel Zehavi

Now Watch What He Does With Them

Now Watch What He Does With Them
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Sara Matathias

Shared Legacies Are Not Enough

Why remembering the civil-rights alliance is necessary—and not enough This series asks what Black and Jewish Americans need to say to one another...

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Ed Gaskin

The Red Sea Dilemma: Bin Salman Pleads, Trump Says No

The Red Sea Dilemma: Bin Salman Pleads, Trump Says No

When the Backyard Goes Up in Flames As the global energy market trembles and the shadow of a maritime crisis weighs heavily on the world economy, a...

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Brosh Momi

Judaism is Not a Suicide Pact

Michigan Attorney-General Dana Nessel recently gave a talk at the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus Summer Simcha 2026, where she discussed the...

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Yitzchak Besser

What if Miliband & the Chief Rabbi are both right?

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said something in Parliament this week with which I find it very difficult to disagree. “Holding British...

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Paula Slier

President Irro at Hudson: Somalia Has Allies. America Still Has Choices.

President Irro at Hudson: Somalia Has Allies. America Still Has Choices.

Why September 14 could test whether Somaliland can turn strategic momentum into a durable Washington coalition. President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi...

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Nassir Hussein Kahin

Making the world a better place

Jewish ethics of responsibility in the thought and work of Architect Moshe Safdie. Renowned architect Moshe Safdie who was born in Haifa in 1938,...

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Gerard Heumann

The Silent Shofar and the Message of Ahavat Yisrael

The Silent Shofar and the Message of Ahavat Yisrael Rosh Hashanah is the Day of Judgment. We stand before the Ribono Shel Olam and ask Him to judge us...

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Eliezer Simcha Weiss

The Hidden Leverage of Gulf Capital in Western Policy

Financial interdependence rarely looks like coercion—but it can quietly narrow the choices available to Western governments. When people think about...

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Mohamed Osman

What the Ocean Kept

In Disney’s live action Moana, which reached cinemas last month, the ocean parts its waves on a Polynesian shore and places a small green stone in...

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Vincent James Hooper

Jewish News – We must be better than BBC!

I am writing about the Jewish News article headlined: Former Israeli PM and ex-IDF chief of staff back UK sanctions on West Bank settlers involved in...

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Jonathan Levy

On Rosh Hashana, Don’t Fear G-d; Rather Fear what G-d Fears

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Pinny Arnon

Reprise: A Rosh Hashanah Sermon 2001

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Richard Block

Demography as Destiny: Israel’s Really Good News

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Sam Lehman-Wilzig

The Street and the Home, Part III

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Julian Ungar-Sargon

What Are Some Ways to Make Changes and Start Anew During Rosh Hashanah?

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Michael Laitman

This Rosh Hashanah, Jewish Unity Is Our Answer

This Rosh Hashanah, Jewish Unity Is Our Answer
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Sabine Sterk

Turn, Turn, Turn

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Chaim Ingram

Akeidat Yitzchak

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Kenneth Cohen

Superintelligent AI Will Choose Domination Over Human Extinction

Superintelligent AI Will Choose Domination Over Human Extinction
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Celeo Ramirez

This New Year, Make Room for Young Jewish Leaders

This New Year, Make Room for Young Jewish Leaders
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Ariela di Gioacchino

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The defining sound of Rosh Hashanah is the shofar, capturing the full spectrum of emotions we feel on the High Holidays.  It is a call our people...

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Isaac Herzog

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Twenty-five years ago, Rosh Hashanah came about a week after 9/11.  I imagined that the angel in charge of “who by fire” had discovered she was...

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Gayle Meyers

What Kind of King? – מְלוֹךְ עַל כָּל הָעוֹלָם כֻּלּוֹ

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Lisi Levisohn

What I learned about hope in North America this summer

What I learned about hope in North America this summer
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Ariel Beery

64 Years & Beyond: Israel and T&T

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Nicholas Jagdeo