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The Running Man 2025: Spectacle, Sovereignty and the Geopolitics of Distraction

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Vincent James Hooper

Are We or Are We Not Experiencing a Religious Revival?

yesterday 8

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Steven Windmueller

Hezbollah Reloaded: Israel’s Darkest War Looms

yesterday 7

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Raising Jewish Children in an Age of Fear

yesterday 6

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Yali Szulanski

Beyond Hasbara – Winning the Narrative War

yesterday 6

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Steve Yastrow

CADENA in Action: A Month of Global Relief

yesterday 6

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Benjamin Laniado

Jewish ethics is preferred over Jewish law

yesterday 5

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Israel Drazin

Misguided power is dominant in our youth

yesterday 5

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Alan Simons

The Ordinary Conversations About Jews

yesterday 5

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Omar Mohammed

New Jewish Federation of Annapolis & the Chesapeake to Unite Jewish Life

yesterday 4

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Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

Dear Harvard Ethicist

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Ellen Ginsberg Simon

The US Is Deepening Its Rapprochement With Syria

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Sheldon Kirshner

Full-Time Torah Study for All: The Greatest Orthodox Jewish Fraud Running Steady

previous day 10

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Paul Mendlowitz

Democrats Must Engage, Not Despair, After the New York Election

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Sam Lauter

Why the America-Morocco Phosphate Nexus Defines Global Stability

Why the America-Morocco Phosphate Nexus Defines Global Stability

The recent elevation of phosphate to the US Critical Minerals List is not a celebration of a resource; it is a forced reckoning with an unavoidable...

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Amine Ayoub

Rebecca: Kindness with Determination

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Ben Lazarus

Jewish History: Tribal Boundaries

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Brandon Marlon

Naledi Pandor – The South African Jihadi Emissary

previous day 10

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Lawrence Nowosenetz

A Conditional Pardon Could Help Heal Israel’s Divide

previous day 9

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Yosef Zohar

1948: Two Suns Over One Land

In 1948, the State of Israel was established, marking the end of Jewish exile and centuries of persecution, including the Holocaust. For...

previous day 8

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Adil Faouzi

Democrats Must Confront Their Antisemitism Problem

In March 2022, I was interviewed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to discuss the rise of antisemitism across the political spectrum in the...

tuesday 20

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Jesus Barrera

Healing a fractured world

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Erica Brown

The War Is Over, but the Gap Remains

The “Iron Swords” war in Gaza has come to an end. The living hostages are back home, soldiers have been reunited with their families, and Israelis...

tuesday 10

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Ilay Noimark

Florida, Cleveland…. What about Eretz Yisroel?

tuesday 10

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Ariel Galian

AI Critical Thinking Without Consciousness

AI Critical Thinking Without Consciousness: A Framework for Synthetic Cognition Abstract This paper argues that artificial intelligence (AI)...

tuesday 10

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William Keenan

Not Unicorns, Just People Solving Real Problems

When people talk about “Startup Nation,” they usually picture Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv, funding rounds, and photos of founders standing in front...

tuesday 8

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Daniel Widmonte

107 Years after the Armistice – the Ceasefire

Every year November 11 arrives with its familiar ritual quiet: ceremonies, wreaths, silence, the thin cry of the bugle. The date marks the...

tuesday 10

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Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Pushkin, the Queen of Sheba, and the Hidden Light of My Jewish Roots

By Rabbi Mikhail Salita, a Brooklyn rabbi with roots in Odesa, Ukraine Sometimes destinies intertwine in ways that even angels marvel at. My great-...

tuesday 10

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Mikhail Salita

Meet the Jewish founder on track to build the world’s first one-person unicorn

For startup founders, reaching unicorn-status is often seen as the pinnacle of success, and a clear sign that one’s company has ‘made it’. For...

tuesday 10

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Conrad Egusa

Heartbeats of Kindness – My Discovery of Bikkur Cholim

Heartbeats of Kindness – My Discovery of Bikkur Cholim

Sometimes life reminds us that miracles don’t always arrive with thunder or light—they appear quietly, through people whose kindness keeps the...

tuesday 10

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Sofya Tamarkin

Hadar is Home

Hadar is Home

Together with all of Israel, I am relieved, grieved and filled with muted joy that Hadar Goldin הי”ד has been retrieved from the clutches of...

10.11.2025 50

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Jeffrey Woolf

Attacked by Settlers in the West Bank

For many years when I have visited Israel, I have also spent some time in the West Bank which I have visited with organizations like T’ruah: The...

10.11.2025 50

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Suzanne K. Singer

Crumbs

10.11.2025 50

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Sarah Kendis

I’m Witkov, not Witkoff!

10.11.2025 3

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Harold Witkov

10 reasons why I voted for Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City

10 reasons why I voted for Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City
10.11.2025 5

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Ron Kronish

Trump’s Bullying on the Macro Level Gives Permission on the Micro Level

Trump’s Bullying on the Macro Level Gives Permission on the Micro Level

I didn’t realize how deeply I would be affected until I walked into my front yard and noticed that the LGBTQIA inclusive Pride flag I had hung to...

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Warren J. Blumenfeld

When strategic realism prevails over ideology

When strategic realism prevails over ideology

The visit of Israeli minister Gideon Sa’ar to New Delhi, at the beginning of November 2025, went unnoticed. Yet, behind this meeting hides a...

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Gilles Touboul

No Outreach. No Excuses. The Wolf Is Here.

For years, we labeled every critic of Israel, every dissenting voice, every inconvenient ally, as an enemy. We made criticism of Israel and “...

10.11.2025 50

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David Sable

Where Judaism Meets Criminology

Where Judaism Meets Criminology

Why belief still matters when we talk about change People sometimes ask, gently or otherwise, who I am — and why I speak about Judaism and justice...

10.11.2025 10

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Claire R. Bright

Why Antizionism Gets a Movement But Antikhomeinism Doesn’t

Among the oddities of modern political morality, few are stranger than this: the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel, is the one whose very...

10.11.2025 10

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Daniel Roth

From Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Market: How 1989 Reshaped the Global Order

When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, 36 years ago, it symbolized more than the collapse of a barrier dividing East and West Berlin. It...

10.11.2025 10

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Vincent James Hooper

Open letter to US government regarding visit of Dr Naledi Pandor

To: The United States Secretary of State Honourable Marc Rubio, Washington, D.C., USA Subject: Urgent Concern – Naledi Pandor’s Planned Entry into...

10.11.2025 3

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Lawrence Nowosenetz

When the Shomers Go Blind

I am not here to talk about the ascendancy of socialist and antisemitic left-wing ideology in NYC and what it means for the future of the city as...

10.11.2025 5

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Benjamin Folkinshteyn

From Fracture to Revival – Two weeks inside an Israeli exhibition where strangers met, spoke, and rediscovered hope

From Fracture to Revival – Two weeks inside an Israeli exhibition where strangers met, spoke, and rediscovered hope

“I do not like that you ask us to speak about revival,” a woman told me during one of the discussion circles. “Why rush to hope when we are...

10.11.2025 10

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Adi Rabinowitz Bedein

An open letter to Jonathan Greenblatt: This is not the way

I know you have serious disagreements with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. I know it is important that you articulate your concerns to the incoming...

10.11.2025 4

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Jonathan Jacoby

To Repay Our Debt: A Jewish Reflection on Veterans Day

Every Veterans Day, Americans pause to honor those who have worn the uniform of the United States. We thank them for their courage, their...

10.11.2025 40

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Jon Levi

When Israel Hesitates, We Build: Why SSEJ Laid a Cornerstone in Gondar

10.11.2025 4

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Micah Feit Mann

Embracing Faith Through Science and Sacred Wisdom.

Embracing Faith Through Science and Sacred Wisdom.

From Belief to Knowing: Finding God in Quantum and Torah Insights. Sefer HaChinuch (13th-century Spain)  (Mitzva 25) tells us: “We are commanded to...

10.11.2025 1

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Shlomo Ezagui

Jewish Women International Brings Leadership to the New Jewish Federation of Annapolis & the Chesapeake

Jewish Women International Brings Leadership to the New Jewish Federation of Annapolis & the Chesapeake

The new Jewish Federation of Annapolis & the Chesapeake brings together a diverse coalition of Jewish organizations — including Jewish Women...

10.11.2025 4

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Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

50 Years Later: How the UN’s ‘Zionism is Racism’ Still Fuels Antisemitism

As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.N.’s infamous resolution describing the liberation movement of the Jewish people, Zionism, as...

10.11.2025 4

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Kenneth Jacobson