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The strangest thing about The Guardian’s news-review piece about Boy George’s pro-Jewish song is not its politics but its panic — the sheer...
At the United Nations in September 2024, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi made Israel an extraordinary offer. Speaking after Prime Minister...
Barely hours after Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye signed their new mutual defence agreement in Mecca, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif...
Whenever Madrid and Jerusalem quarrel — which under Pedro Sánchez is most weeks — a familiar chorus starts up. Spain, it explains, has been the...
The Definition of a “Normal Country” and the Ghost of King Faisal In a rare, paradigm-shattering engagement with the Israeli media via The Times...
The Jewish Museum of Vienna is one of the world’s most significant institutions dedicated to preserving and presenting Jewish history and culture....
Character is rarely tested in the moments we prepare for. It is not proven only in the grand public causes we argue about—justice, war, peace, or...
The traditional Hebrew text of the Bible states that 70 members of Prophet Jacob’s family went down to Egypt (Genesis 46:27, Exodus 1:5). The...
One hundred years ago, Jewish philosopher Martin Buber published “Education” in the inaugural issue of Die Kreatur. He edited the quarterly with...
I am a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, barely survivors. Survivors who stepped out of the camps into a world emptied of everyone they had ever...
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off. There’s an old Gershwin song that goes: “You like potato and I like po-tah-to. You like tomato and I like...
Five days ago, Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in Michigan after an extraordinarily close primary. He was...
When we look at a name, we usually stop at its meaning and go no further, rarely asking where it came from. I prefer the opposite, tracing a name back...
Ceuta: When Spain Is Caught Up by History Colonial Spain, Israël, Palestine : the language of occupation The spectacular migrant influx that has...
There is something almost too perfect about Jews for Jesus. It offers Christians the Jew they have always wanted: recognizably Jewish, reassuringly...
The other day I was at the supermarket making small talk with the cashier. I did the perfectly Canadian thing and talked about the weather, but Sharon...
Seven months ago my son Yeshaya had a bar mitzvah. Everything went right, besides everything that didn’t. It was an incredible bar mitzvah weekend...
Telling myself, ask answerable questions. Unanswerable questions deter progress. WhatsApping with Mohammed, last week, I asked questions and withheld...
Lithuania names its rescuers. It anonymizes its murderers. Thirteen years ago this week, a man died in Sutton, Massachusetts. Vladas Zajanckauskas was...
The Strait of Hormuz, which for years had remained a serious threat in the hands of the Islamic Republic, has been transformed by the United States...
Inspired by the social media noise, nonsense, and clickbait of the weirdly queer antizionist Jew-hate movement and my doomscrolling feed alternating...
My first official duty as Israel’s ambassador-designate became an encounter between memory and diplomacy In Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Museum, I...
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, and the Rise of Strategic Autonomy The signing of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on August 7, 2026, by Saudi...
Saudi Arabia ranks among the world’s largest defense spenders and operates advanced aircraft, missiles, and air-defense systems. Yet high...
Israel’s support in the Democratic Party is gradually slipping away. The latest evidence of this seminal shift is Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in...
“The global protein supplements industry generated approximately $29.8 to $30.3 billion in revenue last year. Within that, the broader protein...
On August 7, 2026, Saudi Arabia ended years of geostrategic ambiguity. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) joined Turkey’s neo-Ottoman...
The Conquest of Childhood Every society educates. It cannot be otherwise. Parents teach. Teachers teach. Religious institutions teach. Governments...
Josef Mengele, Eugenics and What Happens When Science Loses Its Moral Conscience There is something unsettling about photographs of Josef Mengele. He...
There are places where history should impose a particular seriousness upon us. Mauthausen is one of them. A concentration camp is not merely a...
Wan-I Yang is a Taiwanese professor at the Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University. From the description of Abraham in Søren...
The relationship between Somaliland and Germany is one of the longest-standing and most meaningful international partnerships connected to...
Organized People, Organized Money, and the Institutional Church A congregation with a thousand members, a building, a budget, trusted leaders,...
External Symbols or Commitment to Moral Values Religious symbols may become the primary criterion by which individuals are judged, outweighing the...
My father John F. Rothmann prepared this question and answer sheet on Zionism and anti-Zionism. Given what’s going on today it seems to me that this...
Henry Kissinger would have understood the predicament confronting Israel and South Korea. Both countries are technologically advanced democracies that...
Federal Deputy Greyce Elias speaks about the Manifesto against antisemitism, the union between Christians and Jews, and Brazil’s role in defending...
History has a habit of repeating itself. Not because the circumstances are identical, but because people, particularly people acting in political...
When an autonomous loitering munition selects and engages a target without human intervention, we assume we know what it is not: it is not aware. It...
I’ve watched what antizionism does to Jews. I’ve seen it pressure and push and violently demand. Some fold, others get crushed, and almost every...
On August 7, 2026, an unusual message emerged from one of the oldest circles of the Breslov Hasidic world. Senior rabbis had asked that a letter of...
To See in Order to Choose Re’eh — See. The imperative is singular, though the people listen in plural. That tension is not accidental: choice...
In recent years, a growing number of academics and political observers have questioned whether the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be resolved...
A lifelong Democrat reflects on the hardest box he’s ever checked. I wasn’t expecting Boy George to play any role in a deeply personal political...
Last Friday a Turkish worshipper tried to enter the Al Aqsa compound for prayers. An officer stopped him and said, in English, “Turkish, it’s...
For many high school graduates in the diaspora, spending a gap year learning in Israel can be one of the most formative experiences of this stage of...
As a Hollywood producer, I’ve spent much of my career around artists, actors, musicians, and storytellers. One thing I’ve learned is that there...
There are excellent reasons to oppose Donald Trump, and there are excellent reasons to oppose Benjamin Netanyahu. Neither case requires Adolf Hitler,...
Some of my Jewish friends voted for Abdul El-Sayed. He may be my next senator. I feel betrayed–and scared for Israel. On election morning, I ran...
TL;DR: The Gaza genocide debate often begins after the crucial question has already been skipped. Death, deprivation and destruction can be evidence...
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