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The Starmerization of Anthony Albanese

The Starmerization of Anthony Albanese

Ever since the bloodcurdling Hamas-led atrocities of October 7, 2023, that shocked the world, the job of governing Australia has come with an added...

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Branko Miletic

This Is the Death of the Western Liberal Order

This Is the Death of the Western Liberal Order

I want to tell you about a woman named Daria Boyarskaya, because her story reveals almost everything about the condition of the Western liberal order...

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Sharon Pardo

Why Israelis Should Invest in Somaliland Now

As Israeli businesses expand their global outlook in search of new markets, East Africa is steadily gaining attention. Yet within this dynamic region,...

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Abdibasid abdiasis

The War Against Iran

The War Against Iran: Does It Mark the Beginning of a New Middle East? Geopolitics, Strategic Ruptures, and Regional Reconfiguration On February 28,...

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Mohamed Chtatou

Iran’s drone strikes on Nakhchivan served as a test of Azerbaijan’s resolve

Iran’s drone strikes on Nakhchivan served as a test of Azerbaijan’s resolve

STRATEGIC GOALS OF OPERATION ROARING LION AND EPIC FURY The war in Iran has extended its geographical scope since the launch of the Israeli and...

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Rufat Ahmadzada

From Lab to Life: Generic Ozempic at Last

Remember Viagra – the drug with the yukky side-effect that initially doomed it, then the side-effect (negating erectile dysfunction) became the...

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Shlomo Maital

Sam Sussman’s Boy from the North Country: What Happens After the Awards

Sam Sussman’s Boy from the North Country: What Happens After the Awards

‘Boy From the North Country’ Join Author Sam Sussman in Conversation with Cantor Dan Singer Tickets | Stephen Wise Free Synagogue On March 26, the...

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Daniel Singer

Why Hamas Uses Different Flags and Why It Matters

Why Hamas Uses Different Flags and Why It Matters

Understanding the symbolism behind flags used by Hamas is essential to grasp how the group presents itself to different audiences and why this creates...

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Sabine Sterk

Iran War: Israel’s Center of Gravity Analysis

Iran War: Israel’s Center of Gravity Analysis

Israel’s Three Node Center of Gravity In classical military doctrine, a Center of Gravity is the source of power that provides moral or physical...

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William Keenan

Guy Sitbon Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #326

Guy Sitbon, born Isaac Shetboun in Monastir, former correspondent for Le Monde in Tunis and The New York Times, co-founded La Nef, Le Nouvel...

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Alexandre Gilbert

Riyadh’s Message: No More Room for Iran’s Escalation

Riyadh’s Message: No More Room for Iran’s Escalation

In Washington, a significant diplomatic moment unfolded as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador, Princess Reema bint Bandar, met with her counterparts from the...

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Junaid Qaiser

‘She Embroidered Her Love in Colored Threads’

‘She Embroidered Her Love in Colored Threads’

Chavik Segal, of Netiv Ha’asara, was a handicraft workshop and an act of quiet charity embodied in a single woman. On October seventh she was...

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Saguy green

The Faith & Media Initiative releases new survey findings

When Variety presented a Spirituality& Entertainment Brunch hosted by the Coalition for Faith & Media at The Sundance Film Festival the line...

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Patrice Worthy

Featured Post

The Department of Justice filed suit against Harvard University Friday morning, and by the afternoon, the media-academic complex was already...

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Gerard Filitti

A Field Guide to Grassroots Jewish Advocacy

A Field Guide to Grassroots Jewish Advocacy

Know the terrain. Know the players. Not everyone moving is building. After October 7, something shifted. Not politically or abstractly, but...

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Shlomi Bennett

Trump wins in Nov. only if he wins Iran 100%

Ignore the daily media lie that President Trump will lose in the November elections because of Iran. Long before this war started, the Dems were on...

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Ira Straus

The Tiger, the Badger, & the Strait of America

The Tiger, the Badger, & the Strait of America

There are two campaigns in this war: the American tiger and the Israeli badger. The saber-toothed tiger brings mass, reach, and the power to shake the...

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Yehuda Hausman

The Warthog Paradox: What Day 21 Reveals About the True Cost of Air Supremacy

Three weeks into Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion, Prime Minister Netanyahu stood at a Jerusalem podium and declared that Iran can no longer...

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Vincent James Hooper

The Islamism Paradox: Why the Middle East Confronted It—and the West Won’t

The Islamism Paradox: Why the Middle East Confronted It—and the West Won’t

Something has already changed across the Middle East, and the West hasn’t really caught up. Governments that once tolerated islamist movements have...

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Tim Orr

When No One Really Pressed the Button: AI in War

When No One Really Pressed the Button: AI in War

In recent weeks, a growing number of reports have pointed to the expanding role of artificial intelligence in modern warfare. From dynamic targeting...

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Michal gal

When Time Turns Possession into Assumed Ownership

The Somali proverb “Baadi kugu raagtay in aad leedahay ayaa la moodaa” offers a concise yet powerful insight into human psychology, property, and...

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Mohamed Osman

AI Has No Soul — Unless We Demand It

AI Has No Soul — Unless We Demand It

Recently, the Defense Department tried to strong-arm Anthropic, the maker of the AI system Claude, into removing ethical constraints on its...

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Michael Knopf

Opera, Chazzanut, and the Jewish Need to Feel

Some people say they’re bored in shul. The davening is too long. The chazzan is too slow. The melodies are outdated. (No complaints about the rabbi,...

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Elie Weinstock

Abandoned?

Leaving Israel at this time of war, with family in Israel and the United States, is not an easy feeling to describe.  We feel as though we have...

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Clifford Rieders

Why Ukraine’s air-defense lessons still haven’t reached the Gulf

Ukrainian military advisers sent to the Middle East at CENTCOM’s request came away stunned by what they saw in the Persian Gulf. According to The...

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Alexander lutsenko

Silence to Strength: Honest Talk on Antisemitism

In June of 2024, during Pride Month, I was invited to Washington, DC, as a Hadassah representative, to a reception at Adas Israel Congregation that...

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Gail moskowitz

From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue

From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue

In a conversation with Karen Mock regarding her recent book From Sacred Language to Mother Tongue, hosted at USC, we explored the proposition that...

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Hagit Arieli Chai

Faith in Fatherhood

I never wanted to be a father. People can offer explanations if they need them. Perhaps because I grew up in an Ultra-Orthodox family and, as the...

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Yakir Englander

What a Nuclear Bomb Does to the Human Body: One Mile

What a Nuclear Bomb Does to the Human Body: One Mile

In the first post of this series, I described what happens to the human body at ground zero of a 10 to 15-kiloton nuclear detonation: the zone within...

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Celeo Ramirez

Jayme Blay Awarded Anchieta Medal for Community Leadership, Brazil–Israel Ties

Jayme Blay Awarded Anchieta Medal for Community Leadership, Brazil–Israel Ties

São Paulo City Council to Honor Jayme Blay with Anchieta Medal and Diploma of Gratitude On April 14, 2026, the São Paulo City Council will hold a...

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Silas Anastacio

Why does Trump want people to believe there is a split with Netanyahu?

Why does Trump want people to believe there is a split with Netanyahu?

Think Like a Spook and the Answer is Obvious – Trump is a Genius A couple of days ago Israeli warplanes bombed small part of Iran’s South Pars gas...

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Joel a. brodsky

An important easy to read philosophical book

Albo: Collected Writings, edited by Shira Weiss, is an important and welcome contribution to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy, making the...

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Israel Drazin

The new Haggadot of 5786: For Star Trek fans, humanists, and humorists

The period before Passover each year marks celebration of Purim, and of the Jewish people’s triumph over the genocidal designs of Haman in ancient...

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Steve Lipman

My Heart Is in the East

To my friends and family in Israel— I write to you from afar, but not from a distance of the heart. As a Reform rabbi and a proud Zionist living in...

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Neal Katz

5 Questions about Rabbi Bob Dylan Zimmerman: Is God On His Side?

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side…” – Abraham Lincoln (1809 -1865) There are many...

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

It’s the Simple Things

Just about 19 years ago, I was sitting in the cheder ochel of Michlalah as the 2006/7 seminary year came to a close. The end of the year banquet...

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Naami Ganz

No one mourns the wicked? God does. So stop glorifying the deaths of our enemies

And if you are Secretary of Defense, stop calling yourself “Secretary of War.” Stop glorifying it. Don’t revel in killing thousands at the push...

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Joshua Hammerman

Antisemite to English translation of Tucker (Y”Sh)

Theological Problem for Christians and Muslims A Positive Answer – Christian Zionism A Crazy, Evil “Answer” Why it’s obviously stupid

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Reuven Bobby Weinmann

Parasha Vayikra—Where Sacrifice Becomes Language

Parasha Vayikra—Where Sacrifice Becomes Language

There is something strange at the beginning of this book. The very word — Vayikra, “And He called” — is written with a small alef in the...

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Yosef B. Moran

Shalom Brothers: I Just Called To Say, ‘I Love You.’ (Vayikra)

One of my favorite songs is Stevie Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You.” What makes it so good is that the song refuses to wait for a...

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Noam raucher

Be Above the Stars, a Channel for Divine Response

MAZEL TOV! A phrase that the world knows to be of celebration and wishing luck. What is luck? In Hebrew, MAZEL refers to nature, and the laws of...

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Yulia Medovoy Edelshtain

Kill Iran’s Nerve Center

Kill Iran’s Nerve Center

From Israel’s perspective, eliminating senior Iranian figures such as Ali Larijani is not about symbolism. It is about dismantling the Islamic...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

War is not inevitable

War is not inevitable, unless you’re Binyamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has consistently chosen war over diplomacy, particularly...

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Lonny Baskin

Hagada Dentata

Last week a Chabad emissary posted a triumphant video: outside the ADL conference, he and a friend wrapped tefillin on a Jewish pro-Palestinian...

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Jon Taub

When the Displaced Arrived: She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Sister

We had a quiet Monday night. No warnings or sirens after 9:30 PM. To my amazement, as I was getting my morning cup of coffee from the restaurant’s...

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Moshe l. gavant

It Isn’t Easy Being Green

It Isn’t Easy Being Green

Kermit first sang those words in 1970, his felt forehead creased with existential gloom. It was a melancholy little number about feeling invisible,...

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Brad Goverman

Ukraine world No 1 power in low cost smart drones

Ukraine: The World’s No. 1 Power in Low-Cost Smart Drones, and the Paradox This position could either accelerate a ceasefire or prolong the conflict...

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Francis Moritz

Bringing Light

Bringing Light

This week I had the opportunity to address a room filled with senior services providers and not just any senior service providers, but those who work...

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Carol Silver Elliott

Did We Miss Signals from Alien Civilizations? AI Reframes the Search

Image: Conceptual illustration of a possible signal from an alien civilization reaching Earth.Detecting such signals — or their physical traces —...

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Rafi Glick

Campus to K12 Classroom: Anti-Zionism in Education

Campus to K12 Classroom: Anti-Zionism in Education

This week the United States House Committee on Education & Workforce released a bombshell report, titled “How Campuses Became Hotbeds” of...

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Sarah Levin