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At these very moments, for the first time in my life, I am walking through the gates of Auschwitz as part of the March of the Living. Alongside me...
The Great Revelation of Wisdom The first medrash in Medrash Raba tells us that Hakadosh Baruch Hu “looked into the Torah and created the world”....
We know practically nothing about her. What we do know comes from a single document written in 1947. She came from a family that included impressive...
On April 13, the Holocaust and Jewish Immigration Memorial of São Paulo hosted a deeply moving and significant ceremony: the Yom HaShoah. Organized...
Earlier today in Israel, a siren sounded and the country came to a complete stop for Yom HaShoah. Cars halted in the middle of highways. Drivers...
1. How are you – Before my son Ariel z”l ended his own life some nine years ago; this was such a simple and often irrelevant question. I...
From Slavery to Freedom, Breakdown to Breakthrough. The Water is Breaking, Birthing the One and Only YOU. So many feelings after an uplifting Passover...
This is what some people tried to do to my people less than a century ago. This was the reason for the coining of the term “Genocide”, in...
My father placed his leg across a train track in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and waited. He weighed 85 pounds. He had calculated exactly which...
What we are witnessing is not merely instability, but the construction of pressure—a strategy of economic suffocation that turns global dependence...
There is a sentence you will never hear spoken aloud in any foreign ministry, any chancellery, or any presidential press briefing. It is nonetheless...
Mashhad, situated in the northeast corner of Iran, is Iran’s second largest city after Tehran. A Muslim place of pilgrimage, with a population of...
Don’t consider this a vent, but rather a friend-to-friend confession. Today, on the day Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a strict...
Sixty Holocaust survivors from Israel, who endured ghettos, camps, forests, and places of hiding, were meant to lead today, on Holocaust Remembrance...
This display in Amsterdam on the eve of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) is a vile desecration. The piles of shoes — that most devastating...
Written on Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance and reflection on the suffering and murder of six million Jews—one third of our people. After these...
The war with Iran has revealed a long-standing reality: Israel is the United States’ only true ally in the Middle East. Our other supposed allies in...
Image:A Shabbat tablecloth that made its way from pre-Holocaust Budapest to a kibbutz in Israel. The initials AB, for Arenka Binetter, are embroidered...
This year’s commemoration of Yom HaShoah is particularly poignant for its timing and significance and on a very personal note also. During this...
Sirens for action or reaction? Sad as it may be, we seem to live in a country that thrives in discord, and no, I am not referring to war with our...
Strategic Gateways: The Role of Somaliland in Israel’s Red Sea–Mediterranean Connectivity Vision In an era defined by shifting trade routes and...
The real test is not battlefield victory, but whether force can prevent nuclear latency from surviving the war. The recurring question of whether the...
When Power Starts Dressing for the Altar This is not a joke. It is not internet sludge. It is not one more vulgar Trumpian performance to be filed...
Let’s Talk About the F-Word (No, not that one. Stay with me.) Let’s be honest—you saw the headline and had a pretty good idea where this...
Requiem for Those Who Remain with Us Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026 Requiem for those who remain with us. So many thoughts, yet no words will suffice,...
As we commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor the six million Jews of Blessed Memory and the millions of others who were killed by the evil...
As we commemorate Yom HaShoah at a time when the war with Iran remains unsettled and antisemitic violence continues to grow, avoiding the continuing...
If you have Jewish friends, they’re probably feeling something right now that they’re not telling you. Not because they don’t trust you....
It’s a rare moment, but Lebanon is coming to directly speak with Israel. Lebanon’s government has been more assertive toward Hezbollah and wants...
Israel’s prime minister deserves to be judged not only by his willingness to strike Iran, but by whether he can turn military initiative into a...
History is always powerful, and when it is personal, even more so. The first Holocaust Remembrance Day that took place in Israel was on December 28,...
Lately, I’ve found myself in conversations that feel strangely misaligned. People I know, people I respect, people I interact with regularly—we...
When I was 17, a mere seven years ago that feel like a lifetime, I joined my school’s heritage trip to Poland. I spent hours in the weeks leading up...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance appeared on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier for his first major interview after leading a high-level U.S....
In the heart of Budapest stands a monument that represents the dangers of the “memory business.” It isn’t the moving “Shoes on the Danube...
“A Nazi guard beat me on my skull until my head was bleeding. I collapsed on the ground… I wanted to do the mitzvah of counting the Omer, so with...
Today is a different kind of day in Israel. Last night, when the day officially starts on the Jewish calendar, there were memorial events for the...
Recalling an afternoon of memory with Holocaust survivor Elias Feinzilberg in an era of deepfakes where seeing is no longer believing. Today, I bowed...
In December 2024, I visited the sites of the Holocaust—Treblinka, Auschwitz, the ghettos of Jewish resistance, and the killing fields of Karkawa in...
Ukraine has moved into a new phase in its legal response to antisemitism. On April 14, 2026, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed Law No. 2037-IX,...
There are sirens and there are sirens. The Yom HaShoah siren sounds at ten in the morning. Two minutes. The country stops — cars pull over, people...
Western calls for a diplomatic solution with the Islamic Republic of Iran, coupled with criticism of Trump and Netanyahu, revive a dangerous illusion:...
On January 27, 1945, Soviet forces entered Auschwitz and uncovered what the world had refused to see: an industrial system of death. Piles of shoes,...
My wife and I had come to Israel for our first grandchild’s wedding, expecting to stay only 10 days. Instead, that very Shabbos, the current war...
In my recent notes on Parshat Vayikra I focused on the Torah’s radical distinction between one who brings a bullock as a voluntary whole burnt...
Japan is a land of 72 seasons. Each day is not the same and not the same as the last. There is nuance and a time when each fish, each swaying type of...
Recent disruptions in energy markets have exposed how quickly and unevenly external shocks travel. Take the case of India and Pakistan. As significant...
The appointment of Major General Roman Gofman as the next Director of the Mossad is not merely a change in personnel, it is a profound rupture in the...
The contradictions that I am holding right now about Israel and about Zionism are simultaneously dizzying and comforting. Just a few days into the...
The recent death of Norman Podhoretz a few months ago returns us to the moment that most defined him—not as a polemicist of later decades, but as a...
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