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Why ‘Hiraeth’ is the best word to describe the Jewish desire to go home?

Why ‘Hiraeth’ is the best word to describe the Jewish desire to go home?

“That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.”  – A.E. Housman, “Into my...

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Bernard argente

What Remains After the Title

Seeing my portrait placed on the wall of past presidents and chairpersons made me pause. Leadership roles eventually pass, titles move on, and the...

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Michael Bresler

Apple Health Can’t Explain Why, But Flags Fallout

Apple Health Can’t Explain Why, But Flags Fallout

There’s something uniquely insulting about a phone quietly pointing out that you’ve been moving less. Not louder. Not dramatic. No blaring alarm...

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Michael katz

The World’s Strangest Legal Doctrine

The moment Israel and the United States struck Iranian targets on February 28, the world experienced a remarkable legal awakening. International law,...

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Victor Satya

Short-Term Oil Price Spikes or WWIII

Short-Term Oil Price Spikes or WWIII

Over the past decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has played a significant role in intensifying great power geopolitical competition and...

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Fred Saberi

Air Power Alone Won’t Decide the War With Iran

Air Power Alone Won’t Decide the War With Iran

After two weeks of sustained airstrikes, the expectation that the Iranian regime might collapse quickly has begun to fade. Despite the scale and...

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Rami al dabbas

Three Little Girls, One Couple, and the Heart of Israel

Today, something happened that helped me understand what Israel is really about. For the first time since making aliyah, I decided to walk from my...

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Chava kadoche

Treasure Trove: The Jewish Root, Root, Roots of the Toronto Blue Jays

Treasure Trove: The Jewish Root, Root, Roots of the Toronto Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays are about to begin their 50th season, but they actually turn 50 on March 20, 2026.   It was on this day that Major League...

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David Matlow

Aren’t you afraid?

Every time Israel enters a war, I immediately receive messages from a few close friends, my siblings and the odd family member outside of Israel. All...

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Kendall Wigoda

That Child is Me

Not many people know this, but I was a child who was bullied on a playground for years. My lunch was ripped from my hands, my backpack thrown in the...

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Adi strigl

The Strait of Hormuz Held Hostage

Third Gulf Regional War: The Strait of Hormuz Held Hostage, an Essay in Geopolitics The Strait of Hormuz, twenty-one nautical miles wide at its...

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Mohamed Chtatou

Looking behind the Iranian Revolution Mk.II

Looking behind the Iranian Revolution Mk.II

History is replete with revolutions and coups when military forces ousted a ruling government and took control of the reigns of power. From Julius...

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Henry Kaye

From Cyrus to the Mullahs

From Cyrus to the Mullahs

The final words of the Hebrew Bible do not come from a prophet of Israel but from the mouth of a Persian sovereign: “Thus says Cyrus, king of...

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Marc Levy

When War Hits Close to Home

When War Hits Close to Home

Two weeks ago, on Shabbos morning, I received a phone call that immediately changed the day. “Moshe, come to the base as soon as possible. We need...

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Moshe Klausner

Stop the Fake ‘Islamophobia’

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Gina Friedlander

They cried. And they danced

How do our people respond to loss, pain, and inexplicable tragedy? Sadly, I was privy to witness it from up close. In just under two years, my...

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Motti Wilhelm

The Ice-Cream Republic and the War Core

What is breaking in America is not just the balance between republic and oligarchy. What is breaking is the unity of the state itself. One body...

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Don’t You Recognize the Head of an Octopus?

Don’t You Recognize the Head of an Octopus?

I have been learning from the news that many Diaspora Jews in the United States are strongly opposed to the war with Iran. Some of this may stem from...

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Alan P. Gross

Make Iran Cuba

Make Iran Cuba

The US’s relationship with the Republic of Cuba is a model for regional hegemony that can tolerate hostile regimes In April 1961, the United States...

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Yishai Edberg

The Myth of the Persian Chess Master: Why Tehran Was Actually Playing Backgammon

The Myth of the Persian Chess Master: Why Tehran Was Actually Playing Backgammon

For years, we were fed the myth of the brilliant Iranian “chess master.” Commentators and analysts praised Tehran’s leaders as grandmasters of...

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Gil Samsonov

It Can’t Happen Here: A Year That Destroyed Jewish Assumptions

It Can’t Happen Here: A Year That Destroyed Jewish Assumptions

For generations, many Jews living in democratic societies have held a quiet belief: “It can’t happen here.” After the horrors of the 20th...

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Maccabi Lev Ari

The Fog of War – Bomb Shelters and the Fake Destruction of Tel Aviv

The Fog of War – Bomb Shelters and the Fake Destruction of Tel Aviv

A war of necessity or a war of choice, preemptive or defensive, militarily savvy or strategically and diplomatically reckless – Israel’s war on...

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Paul James Kearns

When Accusations Become Proof

The Psychology of Accusation: Projective Identification and the War Over Israel Socrates warned that “the unexamined life is not worth living.”...

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Moshe Manheim

The New American Gallup Poll

A recently released Gallup poll based on surveys taken during February of this year, indicate a landmark transformation of the American political...

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Sherwin Pomerantz

When Hatred Is Tolerated, It Spreads

When Hatred Is Tolerated, It Spreads

When Hatred Is Tolerated, It Spreads I regularly post on a large pro Israel Facebook page. What I see there shocks me to the core. Under posts...

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Sabine Sterk

Integrity of Public Figures

The very long Parshiot of Vayakhel and Pekudei, seem to be a kind of taking inventory in connection with how contributions were allocated. A very...

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Kenneth Cohen

Oil Prices May Ease?

Oil prices maybe easing because Saudi Arabia has started bypassing the Strait of Hormuz? [https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/] Instead of shipping...

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Vincent James Hooper

The Fire at the Door. Attacks on synagogues

The Fire at the Door. Attacks on synagogues

The Fire at the Door: Why Attacks on Synagogues in the West Must Alarm the Entire World Across the Western world, the warning signs are no longer...

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Mansoor h. laghari

Where the Light Enters

Where the Light Enters

Sefer Vayikra opens with a quiet, measured order—an unfolding sequence of offerings brought to the Altar. Bulls, sheep, birds, and even a humble...

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Sam Cohen

Finding G-d in the Everyday

On the first day of the month of Nissan, fifteen days before the Exodus, G-d said to Moses, “This month, you and I will be redeemed, for we will be...

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Lazer Gurkow

Devotion 2 — Listening Across Traditions

This series explores the spiritual discipline at the heart of the Shema: listening. In Hebrew, sh’ma means more than hearing words—it means...

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Ed Gaskin

‘I’m Not a Hero — But I Wasn’t Going to Just Stand There’

Israeli-American rapper Kosha Dillz on being attacked at a Khamenei vigil in New York, the power of showing up, and why the real fight against...

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Aaron Herman

Well Now You Know

For those of you who claim the reason you do not support the war the United States and Israel are waging against Iran, is because President Trump has...

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Steve Wenick

When Washington Blinked in Korea, Tehran Noticed

When Washington Blinked in Korea, Tehran Noticed

In the literature on extended deterrence, there is a concept known as the cascade problem: the phenomenon by which a concession made in one theater,...

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Jeshurun hight

The Bullet We Dodged: How a Harris Win Would Have Handed China the World

The Bullet We Dodged: How a Harris Win Would Have Handed China the World

In the hidden theater of global power, China positioned itself to dominate without serious contest, outpacing every rival on the board. Kamala Harris...

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Yosef Eitan

Yes to the U.S. planning to seize Iran’s shoreline

Reports tell us that the U.S. is considering plans for occupying Kharg Island and the Iranian half of the Persian Gulf shoreline. Good for our policy...

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Ira Straus

Choosing the Switch: AI distorts our world; human resolve CAN save it.

Choosing the Switch: AI distorts our world; human resolve CAN save it.

I don’t speak until I trust the words. I hold back. I edit myself. I miss my moment. I stay quiet even when the cost isn’t mine alone. Don’t...

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Nancy Ancowitz

When a Synagogue Dedication Reached Thomas Jefferson

In April 1818, a synagogue dedication in New York did not remain within the walls of the synagogue. The address delivered at the consecration of the...

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Austin Reid Albanese

The Third Temple Through the Eyes of a Secular Jew

For many secular Jews, the idea of the Third Temple is often dismissed as a purely religious dream. It is usually associated with messianic beliefs or...

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Maoz Druskin

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #212, Messiahs, 7

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #212, Messiahs, 7

In this episode, stairway to heaven, and beyond, to the Vatican. The Eternal Jew’s Tale Messiah Tractates, a Montage Shlomo Molkho’s Traum, 2 Just...

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Stephen Berer

You Reap What You Sow

You Reap What You Sow

A Week of Escalating Terror This past week, we witnessed a terrifying escalation in the relentless tide of antisemitism. From three separate synagogue...

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Andy Blumenthal

The Day I Encountered the B-2 Bomber in the Death Valley Desert

We left Las Vegas at three in the morning. The city was still pulsing behind us, a blur of neon and noise fading in the rearview mirror as we merged...

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Celeo Ramirez

Iran War Day 16: Mission Accomplished or Stuck in the Sand?

Iran War Day 16: Mission Accomplished or Stuck in the Sand?

What was pitched as a two-to-four week kinetic operation intended to “finish the job” and produce rapid political effects has, by Day 15, lost...

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William Keenan

8 Days in Israel

It never gets old. The excitement on the plane was palpable as we caught site of the coastline. Little did we know that we were on one of the last...

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Robin bailey-chen

Israeli Embassy Dinner in U.S. Unites Christian Leaders Against Antisemitism

On Wednesday evening, February 25, 2026, the Embassy of Israel in the United States hosted a special dinner in South Florida, organized by Consul...

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Silas Anastacio

Accountability After the Temple Israel Attack

Accountability After the Temple Israel Attack

On Thursday afternoon, March 12, an attack targeted Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan. It happened five minutes from my children’s Jewish...

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Shlomi Bennett

Assessments and Reassessments, Politicians and a Salty Slice of Bread

Assessments and Reassessments, Politicians and a Salty Slice of Bread

Saturday morning headline: war for uranium destruction. Other unattainable objectives no longer serve politicians’ justifications for war. Saturday...

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Harriet Gimpel

Advice from the Kidneys – kilayot, atzeh, and tuchot

Advice from the Kidneys – kilayot, atzeh, and tuchot

The kidneys are vital organs that essentially act as the body’s filtration system, ensuring that toxins are removed from the blood. They are thus...

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Reuven Chaim Klein

Why Israeli Startups Are Leading the Small Business Automation Revolution

Why Israeli Startups Are Leading the Small Business Automation Revolution

There’s a falafel shop in South Tel Aviv that answers customer inquiries at 2 AM. The owner, a 58-year-old man named Moshe who still hand-rolls...

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Achiya cohen

The Cornell-Technion Vote: Protest as Closure

The Cornell-Technion Vote: Protest as Closure

Last Friday, Cornell University’s Student Assembly voted to sever its partnership with the Technion, Israel’s leading technology institute....

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Sagit Alkobi Fishman