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People ask me sometimes: what do you want for Iran? I pause. Not because I don’t have an answer. But because the honest answer is complicated and...
For all the criticism Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump receive these days regarding their handling of Iran, I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes....
I don’t really see myself as a media outlet, but rather as an ordinary Jewish Canadian living in extraordinary times and facing extraordinary...
Israel has recaptured the historic Beaufort Castle in Lebanon — a Crusader fortress perched on a strategic ridge, which served as an IDF stronghold...
We enter this world with a cry and a breath, Every step that we take is a dance closer to death, We cling to what’s fleeting, what time will refuse,...
Israel has stumbled into a dangerous gamble with historic consequences. Its relationship with the Trump administration, for better or worse, has...
Someone at Israel Hayom Needs to Learn the Facts Israel Hayom columnist Yoav Limor recently criticized Israel’s Ambassador to the United States,...
Alliances between the United States and Israel have frequently resembled a tumultuous marriage in the high-stakes world of Middle Eastern geopolitics:...
The criticism recently directed at the residents of northern Israel – the outrageous question, “What happened to their resilience?” – is not...
The recent appointment of George Deek as Israel’s special envoy to the Christian world has been framed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a...
Why do the draft-dodgers in this new Ayin Tova Cartoon proudly display kosher certifications? It is as if being an IDF draft evader has become a new...
Why Israel Is Being Unfairly Singled Out Around the world, consumers are encouraged to make ethical choices about the products they buy. Boycotts have...
There is a chronic fracture between the closed rooms where diplomats draft the future and the thick dust of those who absorb the impact of their...
… and probably hundreds of thousands of other voters too…. Having written yesterday about one of the multiple problems that deters me from voting...
I still remember the first apartment I nearly rented. It was small, badly lit, and had a mysterious smell in the kitchen, but the landlord said the...
Over the years, I’ve taught perhaps thousands of MBA students in many countries. From time to time, one of them pops up – and I am challenged to...
When life hands you Neuro sparkly and no sleep, you can either punch a wall or decide your life is an indie comedy. My son is 4 — fully aligned with...
How sensational allegations against Israel echo older patterns of anti-Jewish conspiracy and collective demonization. For centuries, anti-Jewish...
(Part 2: The early Black nationalists’ love of Zionism, Malcolm X as a closeted Zionist, the Black Panther Party’s rebuke of the holy war against...
A close family friend recently told me about something that happened to their twelve-year-old nephew at a football match in Australia. During the...
As Iran’s oil storage fills to capacity under the American naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a term from petroleum engineering has suddenly...
One of the most formative experiences of my cantorial training took place during my final year as a student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute...
As a rabbi, I have officiated at hundreds of weddings. Every couple arrives at the chuppah, the Jewish wedding canopy, in love. They look at one...
A thought experiment please: on one side of the screen, picture the Unite the Right Rally of August 2017, in which a conglomeration of white...
It happened in the middle of an unremarkable Ontario Walmart, in the back-to-school section, under the fluorescent lights. My four-year-old son was...
Before the age of modern science, proofs of G‑d were rooted in historical testimony. One famous example is the Kuzari: the claim that an entire...
There is a dispute among the Rishonim related to the Halacha of waiting six hours after eating meat, before eating dairy. The consensus opinion is to...
Missiles from Lebanon, sirens throughout Israel’s north, and families on both sides of the border packing up again. Then, suddenly, a different kind...
One of the most unusual episodes in the annals of the Arab-Israeli conflict took place in the early 1980s when the former queen of Jordan was directly...
Last month, my phone lit up with a message no parent wants to see. Reports of an armed gunman on my daughter’s college campus. Students were...
I returned to Israel a week ago from a family simcha in New York. During my stay I deliberately kept away from news, focusing instead on enjoying...
A dying note smuggled from Auschwitz, an aging Jewish scholar in hiding, and a Pope determined to change history… Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli—later...
We in Israel are approaching elections before the end of this year. In fact, a motion to dissolve the Knesset and hold elections earlier than...
Reportedly, Trump lashed out at Bibi yesterday, claiming that everybody hates Netanyahu now, and everybody hates Israel. Why? Simple. Because Israel...
First off, to the antisemites out there, I would like to commend you for your commitment to this narrative. Few groups of people would hold onto...
Israel’s post-October 7 manpower shortage cannot be solved by waiting for Haredi enlistment to rise organically. The current system actively...
For all the noise, fury, and tragedy that define the current Middle East landscape, the path to a calmer future is not as mysterious as it sometimes...
We all love revolutionary ideas, but the truth is that there is nothing new under the sun. We can only come into new understandings of the existing....
John F. Kennedy understood something that Donald Trump still has not learned. Before agreeing to let filmmaker Robert Drew’s camera crew follow him...
Potential subtitle: My face keeps writing checks my vocabulary can’t cash. There is a brief moment that occurs several times a week in Israel when a...
Monday’s reported phone call between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be remembered less for its profanity than for...
The great downsize, which has been documented since the 1990’s, reflects the undoing of civic and religious engagement but raises a broader...
On April 7, 1994, a genocide began. It would last one hundred days. By the end, approximately one million people lay dead in Rwanda — the vast...
Values, Culture, and the Search for Peace Most of us grow up with a basic understanding of right and wrong. We are taught to tell the truth, not to...
The Jewish Federation of Howard County, Maryland sponsored a special event. It was April 21, 2026, and here in Columbia, Maryland, it was יום...
Israel, Netanyahu, and the Patron’s Invoice There are moments when diplomacy stops pretending to be diplomacy and reveals itself as accounting. The...
On February 10, 2025, I posted a Times of Israel blog entitled “Artificial Intelligence and the Ever-Changing Day School and Yeshiva Landscape“....
“I’m saving your ass.” “Everybody hates you now.” “Everybody hates Israel.” Those were the reported words President Trump used when...
Modern people often think they understand what a table is. A table is where individuals consume calories. It is a site of preference expression. One...
Ireland’s Antisemitic Blindspot “Wearing the Green Jersey” With the grim stories of alleged Israeli abuse of the Irish Flotilla activists...
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