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Challenged by Biden, Empowered by Trump

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Mr. Judge: Can you say, ‘Take this job and shove it?’

Steve Rodan

The Ten Commandments and Your One Identity

Bryan Schwartz

Hamas Manufactures a Crisis

Steven J. Frank

Chai Noon

Bob Avraham Yermus

Giving away land brought October 7

Yoseph Janowski

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Naomi Graetz

An Oasis of Peace

Gila Zarbiv

Hadassah’s Yellow Nail Initiative

Beverly Kent Goldenberg

Our Government Ignored the Mental Health Crisis. Now It’s Costing Millions.

Stuart Katz

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Nadav Tamir

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Lonye Debra Rasch

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Micki Lavin-Pell

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Yoseph Janowski

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Miriam Edelstein

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Allan Ripp

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Sharona Margolin Halickman

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Micha Odenheimer

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Artificial Intelligence and the Ever-Changing Day School and Yeshiva Landscape

Chaim Y. Botwinick

Popular YouTuber spreads antisemitic conspiracy theories

Eli Hassell

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Yoel Bin-Nun

Standing Under Sinai for a Must Loving Covenant

Allen S. Maller

Hamas, Netanyahu and Trump

Harold Behr

I’m PTSD’d. Again.

Shimon Apisdorf

Ukraine and Israel: Shared Lessons in Resilience

Alexander Shatkhin

The Trump’s Gambit on Chabahar: A Gamble for India

Sergio Restelli

Would You Be Willing to Die as a Jew?

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Atrocity After Atrocity in Alabama

Stephen A. Cooper

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Linda Sadacka

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Ariel Beery

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Asia Alhammadi

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Kyley Michele

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