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This Is What a Zionist Sounds Like

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Talyah Ginsberg

From Balak to TikTok: Why the World Still Hates a Blessed People

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Jeffrey Levine

Peace Is More Than a Word

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Sabine Sterk

The uneven burden of Military service in Israel

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Tuvia Book

640 Days On: Israel/Hamas—The West’s Moral Reckoning

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Peter Himmelman

In Lieu of Flowers

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Matt Vogel

Wife Beating and Parshat Balak

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Naomi Graetz

Al-Qaeda and the Crusades

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

OH WOW – A Red Cow (Mitzvah)

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Chaim Meyer Scheff

Repetition

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Kenneth Cohen

Elite Professor Calls for “Dismantling” Israel and the U.S.

A professor at the elite Macalester College is sparking backlash after a video of her at the annual Socialism Conference, which was held July 3rd...

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Toni Airaksinen

From Hevel to Ba’al to Bilaam: The Beit-Lamed Root

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Hats off to Israel’s volunteer-heroes

Just before I stepped into a guest lecture for a master’s class on innovation and entrepreneurship at the College of Management Academic Studies in...

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James Ogunleye

Balak 1: Holiness Begins at Home

Our First Spiritual Task Is to Attach Like a Newborn We talk a lot about doing: mitzvot, chessed, prayer, fixing the world. But Torah starts with...

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Micha Turtletaub

The stubborn professor

There was once a professor who taught a certain theory to his students. “But Professor,” said one student, “your theory doesn’t agree with the...

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Yoseph Janowski

3 reminders yesterday that Israeli democracy is on the line

While all the attention is on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s trip to Washington, three domestic stories in the Israeli media yesterday point to a...

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Paul Gross

Saying Goodbye to Britain for Good

In September 2023 I finally got my British passport renewed. The only reason was that my daughter was taking an extended trip to Bali and, as an...

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Ella Ben Emanuel

A Landmark Civil Ruling: Justice, Recognition, and Survivor Power

The recent powerful civil court ruling awarding NIS 500,000 (approximately $139,000) in damages to a young woman who was sexually assaulted while...

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Neta Patrick

‘Security First’ Peace Plan Offers Path Forward

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently sat down with U.S. President Donald Trump, he presented a vision for Israeli-Palestinian...

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Seth Eisenberg

The Legal Loopholes That Let Hatred March

“Death to the IDF.” “From the river to the sea.” “Globalise the Intifada.” These are not political slogans. They are not cries of...

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Shannon Cummings

Weaponization of Myth: Gaza and the War on Truth

Many pro-Palestinian supporters attempt to justify the October 7 terrorist attacks by arguing that they did not occur in a vacuum-that decades of...

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Moises Salinas Fleitman

Confront your own antisemites

Why do Gentiles lack the pride, motivation, love, and care to be proactive? Trigger warning: This rant may make non-Jews (and Jews) uncomfortable....

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Endorsing Mamdani Isn’t Progressive—It’s Perilous

When seven rabbis endorse a candidate who refuses to affirm Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and minimizes his own antisemitic rhetoric,...

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Reuven H. Taff

Trump: Let Israel Finish Off Our/Your Enemies

We need to start loving to win again. We have a historic opportunity to let Israel win for us. And more: to help Israel win for us and make it...

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Ira Straus

Moving forward: Reflections from an American Jew

Before 10/7, I’d been writing more softly—songs and prose. Quiet hopes. Phrases meant to express something about love, about longing, about the...

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Peter Himmelman

To Understand the Jews, Walk in Our Footsteps — Not Just Past Our Gathered Shoes

A Jew as a poisonous mushroom PRAGUE — I stood today before gravestones so old their Hebrew letters are more memory than inscription. Some lie...

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Juda Engelmayer

The Womb of Catastrophe in Jewish Time

Every great moment in Jewish history has emerged from the broken ribs of disaster. This is not irony. This is not misfortune. This is not cruelty....

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Parshah Hukkat, Independence Day, The Bitter End

Perhaps the quintessential weekend convergence  is Shabbat Hukkat, Fourth of July weekend  and a birthday.  Between the fireworks (in the sky, and...

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Rebecca Sassouni

The Writing on the Wall

It was just yesterday. A synagogue was nearly set alight. In Melbourne, protesters marched not with messages of peace, but with chants of “Death!...

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Benjy Morgan

What my husband’s grandmother taught me about empathy

She’s 97 and still apologizing for grieving. Sometimes, the bravest thing is to simply listen. It was Erev Shabbat. My husband’s grandmother...

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Alejandra Barav

When the Walls Break

Tammuz begins not with fire, but with a crack. It is the sound of walls breached, of defenses shattered. On the 17th of this month in the Jewish...

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Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Go inward for the dopamine hit

I got inspired by three completely different occurrences today, and each one spoke to my soul. Are you listening when your soul, emotions and...

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Yulia Medovoy Edelshtain

Featured Post

After significantly reducing the external existential threat facing Israel, the time has come to remove the internal existential threat. Given the...

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Dan Ben-David

The Cartographer: Power, Precision and the New Middle East

The Cartographer Long before satellites and drones, when empires rose on will and ambition, cartographers wielded kingly power. Their maps, etched...

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Stephanie Campbell

Why Trump has so much sway with Netanyahu

Later today, when President Trump meets with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Washington, he will have a rare opportunity to not just to take a “victory...

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Hadar Susskind

Russia’s Skies No Longer Safe: Drone Chaos and Mass Delays After UAV Threat

Thousands of passengers were left stranded across Russia on Sunday after a wave of Ukrainian drones triggered emergency shutdowns at major...

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Mikheil Khachidze

Trump’s Historic Chance to Finish Off Iran

Israel has given President Trump his best shot at becoming a hero of American history. It is the shot he has now at completely denuclearizing Iran,...

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Ira Straus

US National Security Needs a Dedicated Venture Fund for Israeli Innovation

From Washington to Tel Aviv, the front line of national security is no longer defined by borders but by code, compute, intelligence, and...

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Jj Ben-Joseph

Between Wave and Particle: The Quantum Mysticism of Trust, Faith, and Reality.

The dual nature of light—both wave and particle—serves as a powerful metaphor for the mysterious and shifting boundaries of reality itself. In...

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Shlomo Ezagui

Vienna 1897, New York 2025?

A city that was a center of culture, finance, and political power. with a large and thriving Jewish community elected an antisemitic mayor. The...

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Manny Behar

The “No Jewish State Solution” Coalition

People rarely say it outright, but it’s there: for many, the debate isn’t about a one- or two-state solution—it’s about no Jewish state at...

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Ben Lazarus

Down Under: Shocked not Surprised

“HATE IN OUR STREETS” declared the bold headline today, reporting on the recent attacks on a Melbourne Synagogue and a Miznon restaurant — both on...

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David Werdiger

Divine justice: IAF is God’s army, striking Iran as prophesized in the Bible

As a death row inmate in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, arrested and sentenced to death because of the “crime” of converting to Christianity, I...

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Marziyeh Amirizadeh

Hamas Playing Games …Again

BBC’s Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf on July 5 noted that Hamas is saying that it “delivered positive response on US Gaza ceasefire plan”.  ...

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Max Mohamed

Zohran Mamdani: Forms of Erasure

Jews, of all people, should know that bureaucratic categories rarely capture the truth of identity – not the Ashkenazim when asked to conditionally...

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Shoshanna Leon

Religion and Family Quarrels And More Avodah Zara 20-22

20 “Chen and Now: Forbidden Praise and Esav’s Paradox” Our Gemara on Amud Aleph rules that it is forbidden to praise an idolatrous gentile: “You...

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Simcha Feuerman

Misjudgment of Halacha

The Yalkut makes a comment that needs explanation related to Moshe Rabbeinu’s hitting the rock. “The Holy One Blessed Be He said to Moshe, My...

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Kenneth Cohen

Striking the Rock: Today’s Challenge?

“Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will give its water…” (Numbers 20:8 ) “And Moses raised his hand and struck the rock with his...

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Take a Licking – Synonyms lekikah and lechicha

When the Moabites led by Balak turned to their mortal enemies the Midianites to ally with them against the impending threat of the Israelites, the...

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Reuven Chaim Klein

The Case for Optimism: Why Israel’s Future Is Better Than You Think

In the early hours of October 7th, my phone pulsed with messages I’ll never forget. Just days beforehand I had been sitting in New York City with...

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Seth Cohen