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The United States should consider formally recognizing the Republic of Somaliland as part of a broader strategy for the Horn of Africa. Recognition...
This is a guest post by Guldana Moldash, Director of the Department for Implementation of the Initiatives of the Congress of World and Traditional...
“Hoohas for the Hahas” I personally can not say that without laughing. Try it and see for yourself. And while you are laughing, you might be...
There was a time when the hills belonged to their people. Indigenous families cultivated jhum without wondering whether their fields would still be...
Few figures in contemporary Israeli politics provoke as immediate a reaction abroad as Bezalel Smotrich. Israel’s finance minister, a minister...
Being a teacher today is often called a “special” profession, but by special, I mean that very few people would actually choose it. The pay...
The farmer stood on the hillside and surveyed the land before him. Before planting a single tree or vine, he had to understand the ground. Would olive...
When people think about the Israel Defense Forces, their thoughts often go first to the soldiers on the ground. They see young men and women entering...
Channel 13 reports that elements associated with the Peleg Yerushalmi have been exploring the possibility of yet another Haredi political party formed...
Theological traditions have interpreted the divine image in several complementary ways. Substantive accounts emphasize human capacities such as reason...
The English name of Sefer Devarim, Deuteronomy, derives from the Greek and means “repetition of the law.” The fact that many of the laws are...
An Open Letter to Rev. Sara Ofner-Seals, Associate Pastor at Plymouth Congregational Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana Dear Rev. Ofner-Seals, In your July...
On a sweltering July morning at the Farnborough Airshow—a venue where defense contractors gather to sell multi-billion-dollar death machines while...
On World Refugee Day, the Nobel Prize page chose to remember a child waiting for water. Omar Yaghi grew up outside Amman in a single room shared with...
The Psychology of Belonging Human beings have always divided the world into “us” and “them.” But what creates that boundary? Is it language,...
I don’t want to be alone. I don’t mean that I always want someone beside me. I spend a lot of time alone, and often seek it out. I walk in the...
In addition to the seven nations that needed to be driven out of the land, three more nations were added. They were the Keini, Kenizi, and Kadmoni....
In organizational sociology, a 1977 paper by John Meyer and Brian Rowan, published in the American Journal of Sociology, became one of the field’s...
The New Golden Calf: When AI Becomes an Idol The danger of artificial intelligence is not that it becomes human. The greater danger may be that humans...
Israel has always been a country of debates. People speak loudly, they contest, they argue, they demonstrate. Political confrontation is almost a part...
On August 16, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he was “very happy” the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement had “finally” been signed,...
Last Friday (14), the Jewish Society of Ceará (SIC) in Brazil, celebrated a special moment of memory, culture, and knowledge with the inauguration of...
Sixteen years ago, I wasn’t the same person I am today. My mother had just died –unexpectedly – at the too young age of 72. My heart ached. My...
Lithuania has spent decades telling the world what is wrong with Russia. The description fits Vilnius. On August 17, 2026, a Moscow court sentenced...
In a previous article about “The Two Lone Star States” I stated, “Texas is not just Saudi Arabia with cowboy hats,” as a way of describing the...
Every visitor to Poland arrives with a different story. Some come as students. Some come as historians. Some come because their grandparents survived....
My sister and I were the unfortunate bearers of names with Cultural Significance, but not in the way you might think. I was born just a few years...
The Postwar Consensus and Shared Idealism In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the nations of the Nordic world viewed the nascent State...
There is a claim about Israel that is often dismissed as propaganda: that the Israel Defense Forces fight wars in a more moral manner than any other...
The West Is Incapable of Dealing with Radical Islam The war waged by Americans and Israelis against Iran and its terrorist proxies exposes the truth...
Judaism has never been an abstract system. It has always been a lived experience — fragile, intimate, human. I have watched people walk into Jewish...
Elli Lieberman’s work on deterrence provides a useful framework for assessing the strategic meaning of Israel’s war against Iran....
In the raw, disoriented days following the Hamas massacre of October 7th, something happened at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church on St. Clair Avenue that...
For most of Israel’s history, the battle over international opinion was fought within a relatively centralized information environment. Newspapers,...
Last Month was the second anniversary of President Trump’s miraculous salvation from an assassin’s bullet in Butler PA. Shortly after the event I...
Parashat Shoftim offers two powerful teachings that illuminate the historic debut and revival of the Kanaani cat. The first concerns judges and the...
In Parshat Ki Tetze (Dvarim 22:8) we learn about the importance of fencing in the roof of a building: “When you build a new home, you are to make a...
We’re about to enter the High Holidays. Rosh Hashanah is supposed to be about new beginnings. At least I hope it is. I’ve been thinking a lot...
Silence, silence. One longs for it Amid the noise of the world, Amid the thoughts within. Everywhere voices rise, Each voice echoes itself....
How awful do you have to be for Israel’s right-wing fellow traveler, our American ambassador Mike Huckabee, to call you a terrorist (if you are a...
This is where God chose to reside, the place to which the nation of Israel came on the three pilgrimage festivals to see and be seen, the only place...
The educator murdered at Treblinka, the child who carried his hero’s name into battle, and the invisible thread between them. There is a card at the...
Riyadh bought protection from Ankara and Islamabad and imported their vetoes into its own security core. Neither will fight Saudi Arabia’s war with...
To Respond in Chorus to each Person’s Music Music combined with paintings portray life. All we see does have its background music; It is life’s...
Rabbi Rachel Barenblat recently published a thoughtful essay on her blog, Velveteen Rabbi, called “The words of my mouth and the meditations of my...
In last week’s Torah reading, Parshat Shoftim, the Torah establishes a paradigm of justice when it declares: וְדָרְשׁ֥וּ...
The meeting in Jerusalem between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s envoy, comes at a potentially...
A Call Beyond Sectarianism, Back to God שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ יְהוָה אֶחָד Shema Yisrael,...
Private ownership can protect families, distribute decision-making, encourage initiative, reward labor, and give persons meaningful control over their...
The Economics of Hardship: What the Misery Index Reveals About Life Around the World What the Index Measures The Misery Index summarizes economic...
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