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Nicholas Kristof’s recent op-ed was riddled with disputed claims, unsupported assertions and inflammatory rhetoric. Yet the column served an...
From Hating Israel to Loving Israel in One Single Day Not for everyone. Some people are so deeply poisoned by generational antisemitism that facts no...
Shavuot is the holiday when we celebrate the greatest day in human history. The Revelation on Mount Sinai when all of Israel heard G-d speak was...
Israel’s relationship with the United Arab Emirates is like no other in the Arab world. Israel has forged peace treaties and normalization accords...
Episode 1 of Our Stories Matter podcast hosted by the Trauma Informed Learning Alliance, opened this season’s theme, Civil Engagement in an Era of...
Approaching Passover, the main theme is to rid your household of leavened bread—meaning the type that we normally eat—in all of its varieties,...
Introduction: The Battle for the Cultural Public Square In the modern landscape of global communications, the line between culture and geopolitics has...
Permit me a brief exercise in arithmetic. 2 2 = 4 is true. 2 2 = 7 is false. 2 2 = a mallard duck is something else entirely. ...
Here is a snapshot of current events in Israel. There is ongoing fighting in brutal wars with Hezbollah and Hamas and the possibility of renewed...
The 2025 bilingual edition of The Steinsaltz Mishne Torah: Sefer Hamadda and Sefer Ahava by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, published by Koren...
In quantitative finance, the fat tail is a warning — a statistical reminder that extreme events occur far more frequently than the elegant bell...
I come from a family of enthusiastic Democrats. My brother volunteers in his local party, made calls and canvassed for Kamala in 2024, and knows every...
The City of São Paulo has signed an international cooperation agreement with the Israeli Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV),...
There’s a certain genre of social media video right now that has become incredibly predictable: an anti-Zionist Jewish creator stands in a...
Recognition is not destabilization. Refusing reality is. Israel did what Africa’s diplomatic class has refused to do for more than three decades. It...
On many college campuses, Jewish student spaces have increasingly become targets for ideological confrontation when associated with Israel. The issue...
Regarding Nicholas Kristof’s recent, May 11 New York Times column, “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians.” ...
My years at Columbia University from 2013 to 2017 remain the most significant accomplishment of my life and among my most cherished memories. To be...
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from watching people who share your history work hard to be the exception. To be invited to the...
There are official acts that reveal more about what their author thinks an office is for than any speech could. The video released by the mayor of New...
Shavuot arrives each year with a radical proposition: that wisdom is not simply acquired, but encountered. The holiday commemorates revelation at...
Across the United States and much of the Western world, affiliation with synagogues and churches has been declining for decades, especially since the...
Psalm 8 is not only one of the most beautiful of the psalms, but also one of the most enigmatic. At first, it sings of God’s supreme majesty and the...
One of the things I love about my job is that there’s no such thing as a “typical” day. Being a pulpit rabbi is not your typical 9-to-5 job like...
More than twenty years ago, I asked my Uncle Sholom why Colel Chabad distributed food in a certain way. I honestly don’t remember the details of the...
“Remember Hashem your God for it is He who gives you strength to fight…” ~Devarim 8:18 “Strive to be a warrior and a scholar. Be forged by...
When the world doubts Israeli warning and decodes Iranian threat Tehran has long understood something about the West that the West is slow to admit...
We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” across Israel and the world, lament the fact that the two barbaric...
For decades, Baltimore carried a reputation many Americans knew long before ever setting foot there. Crime headlines, abandoned factories, and...
In a fraternal atmosphere on Thursday morning (14), Pastor José Wellington Costa Junior, President of the General Convention of Ministers of the...
Image: An Oketz Unit dog during operational activity. Future AI-assisted systems may transform rescue dogs into real-time sensing and communication...
Jewish Person, Parent #1, Parent #2, and Other Linguistic Innovations of Our Time There was a time when English was a relatively simple language. You...
The Eurovision Contest (a competition I don’t watch because I don’t like it) has ended and we witnessed the classic political phenomenon in which...
I have long argued that the Mishkan, the Tent of Assembly, that was so aesthetically, rigorously and meticulously crafted in the desert was never...
Amid regional tensions and Iranian attacks on Gulf states, information disclosed in the United Arab Emirates shows the activity of dismantled...
The Journey Continues “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “These words that I command you today shall be...
In the aftermath of Operation Roaring Lion/Epic Fury, one truth has become impossible to ignore: when the United States needed a dependable ally in...
Imagine a world where Iran surrenders. Imagine a world where China doesn’t threaten Uyghurs or Taiwanese or anyone else. Where Israel is at peace...
In a time of chaos and conflict in the world, I am a big fan of shows that take a problem and solve it in an hour. It is probably good for my mental...
Last week, I wrote my blog from Basel in Switzerland, the city where Theodor Herzl imagined a national home for the Jewish people. We were in transit,...
As the Knesset prepares to vote on its dissolution, concerns are mounting over the erosion of public trust in state institutions and the electoral...
In the continuing criticism of Israel seemingly emerging from every voice of Democratic and Independent legislators in the U.S., the Jewish kid from...
What do you call someone who crossed an ocean to campaign for a known Jew hater? Jeremy Corbyn, a British politician, former Leader of the Labour...
To understand how official attitudes toward proper governance have changed in Israel in recent decades, one can look at the flood of appointments now...
I used to think I was an extrovert. Social situations give me energy. I like meeting new people, learning what makes them tick, and swapping stories...
The Tribe of Levi was counted differently from the other tribes of Israel. They were counted from one month in age rather than twenty years, as was...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam have done what too many of their predecessors refused to do: openly accuse Hezbollah of...
The global landscape of Israel advocacy has shifted in a troubling direction. Increasingly, we witness a phenomenon where support from abroad comes...
Two months ago, I reposted a statement from Donald Trump into a WhatsApp group chat after one of the flare-ups involving Iran. I remember the...
Egypt’s military establishment does not make moves casually, and its deepening defense industrial partnership with Pakistan deserves more scrutiny...