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As America celebrates 250 years of liberty, we honor not only the soldiers who fought on the battlefield but also the civilians whose courage and...
(Essay on 250 years of American Dreams and its Dreamers) My son and I were sitting around our kitchen table eating fish tacos with my dear friend...
Renowned Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, of blessed memory, famously stated, “The opposite of love is not hate; it’s...
Ford Motor Company spent the last few years cutting experienced engineers and leaning on artificial intelligence to catch quality problems before cars...
Shortly after the eruption of the war in Iran last winter, the Iranian regime closed the Strait of Hormuz to virtually all commercial shipping. The...
A Paradox of Divine Hope: Parshat Pinchas and the Agony of Reaching a Boundary Human experience is rarely crushed by immediate, absolute refusal. Far...
Before America had fireworks, it had a Hebrew date. July 4, 1776, the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia, fell on the...
Slightly more than 250 years ago, the relationship between the American colonies and the British monarch who ruled them, George III, had exhausted...
As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, we rightly honor the courage, vision, and extraordinary political creativity of the nation’s founders....
In August of 1790, George Washington sailed into Newport, Rhode Island. The backstory to that trip is fascinating. The Constitution had already been...
Recently, an Orthodox relative relayed how the women in her community had successfully advocated for and implemented a change in their section of...
Israeli startups are using artificial intelligence to help rapidly scale up their ambitions, supporting workforces with cutting-edge automation tools....
A centre-right unease I voted for this government because I believed it would defend legality, public order and Greece’s Western seriousness. That...
I have been lucky enough to travel to many places, and in some of them the sky seemed distant, almost unreachable. But there is one place I still...
We all love the beaches of Tel Aviv. We enjoy walking through Shuk Ha Carmel and the Levinsky Market, and few things are better than sitting at one of...
It’s Tuesday evening and the year is 1990. I am 9 or 10 years old, depending on the month, and excited for an evening stroll with my family to pick...
Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement, the Betar youth movement and the Jewish legion of soldiers who...
About twenty-five years ago, I went to Austin to attend the Israel Block Party. Sponsored by the local Hillel, it is a festive gathering, featuring...
Last week I visited the Nova Exhibition in Old St, London. It’s been almost three years since that dark day when Hamas terrorists rampaged through...
If ever Americans needed to celebrate July 4, this is the year. And if ever American Jews needed to observe July 4, this is absolutely the year. We...
Loeb’s UAP Advisory Council: NASA’s Distributed Model or the ODNI’s Centralized Model? UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena): Is the Future in...
When I joined competitive debate, I expected to encounter controversial arguments. Debate exists to test ideas, challenge assumptions, and force...
Two hundred and fifty years is but a blink in the span of human history. Yet in that relatively short time, the United States has grown into one of...
A couple of weeks of marvelous sounds, a new museum, exciting artwork, and capping off with the announced agreement to formally allocate the land for...
“With nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.” A 29-year-old Abraham Lincoln spoke...
There are moments when everything appears to function, even as something deep has already fractured. The camp breathes; people walk and eat and speak....
For decades, the partnership between New Delhi and Jerusalem was defined by exclusivity. The relationship lived in the classified domains of defense...
Yesterday’s action in the World Cup featured two matches pitting the nations of the Iberian Peninsula (sorry Andorra and Gibraltar, but you don’t...
How the gaze on the Jews was built, and the question it leaves What can a Jew do, standing in an inheritance of twenty centuries of being defined from...
Anyone who has watched a trader blow up a desk will recognize the pattern: mounting losses, narrowing options, the slow slide from discipline into...
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other” -Edmund Burke God has informed Moses of his impending forced retirement....
JTA — Years ago, an Israeli colleague told me about the children’s book “Rivka’s First Thanksgiving.” Set in 1910, it tells the story of a...
Today, the 18th of Tammuz, marks exactly one year since the ruling in the petition over women’s right to sit the Chief Rabbinate’s ordination...
The recent news about social media has focused on various countries’ efforts to legislatively prohibit social media use by youngsters. That’s a...
July 3-4, 2026 • 19 Tamuz 5786 • Pinchas (Num 25-30) The 4th of July, 1776, as an act of rebellion, triggered a war. The Star Spangled Banner...
Ashura marks the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram, on the Islamic lunar calendar of 1448. Ashura for 2026 was observed on sundown of June 25th...
What do I have in common with illustrious writer and translator, Yardenne Greenspan? I live in Japan while she’s in NYC. Yardenne holds her corner...
The relationship between the United States and Israel is frequently explained through the language of military cooperation, intelligence sharing and...
Three days before the Republic marks its 250th birthday, the United States Supreme Court agreed to answer a question that would have troubled the...
Who Belongs to the Levant? Why the Question Resists a Single Answer The competing claims to the Levant are routinely framed as a binary historical...
There was a time when social media promised to connect humanity. It promised dialogue, understanding, and the free exchange of ideas. It claimed to...
I was born and brought up in London in the years immediately after WWII, and left in 1965, so memories of the place are inextricably bound up with the...
My parents, and all my family going back to the 1700s, were water gypsies. They lived on longboats and barges. My mum was born on a boat called the...
Here’s the truth nobody wants to say out loud: the war most affecting American Jews and Christian Zionists isn’t only happening in the Middle...
Netanyahu’s triangle of failure is now impossible to ignore. October 7 destroyed his security myth. Iran exposed the limits of his strategic...
The Alshich asked why the incident of Pinchas is repeated after it was already described in Parshat Balak. He answered that the emphasis in Parshat...
My father spent decades doing genealogy research, well before DNA kits and apps populated a family tree for you in an afternoon. He disappeared into...
Why do army friends hold such a special place in our hearts? What changes in our mindset when we are called up for reserve duty in the middle of our...
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026, perhaps the most important question is not whether America has been great, but...
Just beneath the surface of this week’s Parsha is an exceptionally poignant story. It occurs in the context of Moses’ prayer that God appoint a...
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