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Every year, Jews around the world light candles for eight nights and tell the same familiar story: When the Holy Temple was regained from the...

An event about the future of Jewish peoplehood should be full of its future. This one wasn’t. A concern that has been sitting quietly in the back...

In schools, documentaries, activism, and social movements, most discussions of colonialism focus on European empires—their expansion, forced...

It must have been twenty years ago now when I first saw a young person in the West wearing a keffiyeh, the traditional headdress associated with...

Embed from Getty Images On December 7, a date which Frank Roosevelt said would live in infamy, 50 MOOP members set out for an excursion to the...


Inspired by another visit to Dubai. Another Saturday morning at synagogue in Abu Dhabi and early evening at the Sheikh Zayed Mosque – this time...

Thomas Mann’s magnificent retelling of the Joseph saga captures something the Torah hints at but never states explicitly. In one unforgettable...

If you live in Israel right now, you are probably watching Happy Place (Makom Sameach). The show follows Vered (played by Noa Koler), a speech...


What Israel taught me this week about what it truly means to lead. Leadership is one of those words we use so easily that we forget what it costs....

The First Circuit Is Wrong: Antizionism Is Discrimination Against Jews On October 21, the First Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the Title VI...

Under the shadow of geopolitical tension and global uncertainty around the future of Israel, doubling down on international academic collaboration...


In the closing weeks of the year, Egypt staged a parliamentary election that was less a democratic exercise and more a choreographed formality....

I would like to suggest that instead of the usual Festive-season fare – Santa frolics or vapid rom-coms – everyone should settle down with their...


On Illness, Intention, and the Meaning of a Jewish Doorway Not many people know this, but I had bladder cancer when I was 29 years old. Although...

So, as many of you know, Sharon and I are getting ready to celebrate, with God’s help, an incredible moment in our family’s life – our daughter’s...

The following are a few quotes, (complete, partial and paraphrases of current and past Israeli political leaders calling for the establishment of...


It was an abject abomination for lawmakers in the far-right Otzma Yehudit party to wear golden lapel pins in the shape of a noose during a recent...


Part One of a Three-Week Odyssey It’s been over six years since I’ve been to Israel. Let’s just say, I was way overdue. My connections there...


REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Sunday, December 7, 2025, marked the conclusion of the Ambassador Summit, a weeklong conference in Jerusalem, bringing...




