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The Quantum Computer’s Brain

The Quantum Computer’s Brain

Quantum Machines (QM) is already developing systems that enable continuous quantum computation aimed at turning a quantum computer into a working...

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Dror Bin

Agency at the Mikveh: reality not dream

Agency at the Mikveh: reality not dream

Last week, Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi David Yosef spoke at a conference of mikveh attendants, the women who work at women’s mikvaot in Israel...

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Haviva Ner-David

The Battle Before the Battle

The Battle Before the Battle

Before People Debate Borders, They Decide Whose Story They Believe The phrase The Battle Before the Battle is often associated with the biblical...

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Ivan Bassov

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup–Day 17

“I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” Or so said a certain dramatic Scottish...

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Doug Klein

From Lab to Life: Fake Pills Have Real Effects

From Lab to Life: Fake Pills Have Real Effects       The placebo effect:  When you expect a pill to make you better, your brain can...

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Shlomo Maital

In Bangladesh, Islamists Can Lose the Election—and Still Capture the State

In Bangladesh, Islamists Can Lose the Election—and Still Capture the State

Jamaat did not form the government, but the wider Islamist ecosystem may be reshaping the state from inside. Bangladesh’s February election did not...

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Purna Lal Chakma

A Shot Against Forgetting

Some of medicine’s most important answers arrive by accident. Israel is sitting on the next one. Some of the most consequential discoveries in...

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Vincent James Hooper

Rikuday Festival’s 10th Edition Unites 2,000 Through Dance and Art

Rikuday Festival’s 10th Edition Unites 2,000 Through Dance and Art

The 10th edition of Rikuday – Dance and Art Festival of the Congregação Israelita Paulista (CIP) – gathered more than two thousand people last...

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Silas Anastacio

When Providence Becomes a Party Instrument

When Providence Becomes a Party Instrument There is a dangerous moment in Jewish political life when theology ceases to be an opening toward judgment,...

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Rachamim

In Hebrew, womb is רחם, rechem, and mercy is רחמים, rachamim, and both words grow from the same root, ר-ח-מ, as if the language knew from...

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Gil Mildar

Historic St Kilda Hebrew Congregation, Melbourne, Australia

Historic St Kilda Hebrew Congregation, Melbourne, Australia

Nestled in the heart of St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, St Kilda Hebrew Congregation with a membership of around 1,500, is a Modern Orthodox synagogue...

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Jay Abramson

Know That

וְדַע, כִּי טֶרֶם שֶׁנֶּאֶצְלוּ הַנֶּאֱצָלִים וְנִבְרְאוּ הַנִּבְרָאִים Know that...

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Hande Gençünal

Wheaton College’s Asymmetry: Naming Injustice, Except for Jews

Wheaton College’s Asymmetry: Naming Injustice, Except for Jews

On the morning of March 27, 2024, students walking across Wheaton College’s Quad encountered pairs of shoes placed beside a pile of makeshift rubble...

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Tim Orr

An Open Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury

An Open Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury

You grieved for Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land. I ask you to grieve, with equal honesty, for the Jewish lives that 7 October stole — and to...

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Yaakov Chaliotis

Elisha: from slaying oxen to the killing of humans

The prophet Isaiah minces no words about the severity of slaying an ox by saying, “He that butchered an ox” is as if “he slew a man” (66:3); I...

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Yossi Feintuch

Special Destiny

Bilaam had done some serious investigation of the Jewish people from various vantage points. Miraculously, his intentions to curse turned into...

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Kenneth Cohen

Mamdani and the Politics of ‘Monsters’

Mamdani and the Politics of ‘Monsters’

When rhetoric, historical memory, projection, and political obsession collide Every generation promises itself that it would recognize the warning...

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Joe Bergovoy

Don’t Fall for the DSA Branding Machine

Don’t Fall for the DSA Branding Machine

American Jews — and anyone who still believes politics should be judged by truth rather than branding — should pay close attention to what...

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Andy Blumenthal

Should Brazil Turn Right, What’s In It for Israel?

With the election of Abelardo de la Espriella in Colombia and Keiko Fujimori in Peru, Latin America is once again shifting from left to right. The...

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Leonel Caraciki

From River to Sea of Martyrs: The Deadly Jihad Cult Masquerading as Resistance

From River to Sea of Martyrs: The Deadly Jihad Cult Masquerading as Resistance

Imagine a ‘resistance’ that digs tunnels under its own children’s bedrooms and shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ while massacring families. This is not...

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Victor Satya

Eilat 2035: How Israel Should Respond to the Saudi-Turkish-Qatari IMEC Challenge

According to reports published by TheMarker and Haaretz, Transportation Minister Miri Regev recently sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin...

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Rafi Glick

‘Here Be Monsters!’: The Mayor and The Munsters

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.” – Jenseits von Gut und Base, Frederich Nietzsche (1886)...

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Justice for One, Justice for All

Justice for One, Justice for All

If this were just a sports review, I would leave it to those who follow the WNBA to comment. However, this last match proved once again that social...

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David Weissman

Between the West Side and the West Bank

Between the West Side and the West Bank

I was on the floor of my friend’s Hollywood apartment with a microphone in my hand, singing my heart out to our makeshift karaoke. I was high and...

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Jessica Ghitis

Diplomats Can Sign a Ceasefire. Relationships Keep the Peace.

Diplomats Can Sign a Ceasefire. Relationships Keep the Peace.

A ceasefire can be negotiated in conference rooms. Peace cannot. Diplomats may end the exchange of weapons, but only ordinary people can end the cycle...

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Seth Eisenberg

Israel doesn’t control Trump or the US any more than Jews control banks or media

Trump let Bibi drag him into Iran.’ I realize this is a single sentence but I’m so tired of the deeply misleading simplicity with which it is...

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Lou Sandler

Service, Ceremony, Coffee – Spiced with Cultural Arts

Service, Ceremony, Coffee – Spiced with Cultural Arts

In a Tel Aviv café. Laptop. After Google Meet, before Zoom. Morning coffee. Procrastination. A document waiting to be written. And a dog. In a...

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Harriet Gimpel

Israel is still in the ‘Room’

Israel is still in the ‘Room’

The initial agreement signed between Israel and Lebanon after US-mediated talks should not be seen only as a Lebanese-Israeli file. It is also a...

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Gilles Touboul

From Ego to Bitul to Blessing: Parshas Korach, Parshas Chukat, and Parshas Balak

The Torah’s arrangement of Parshas Korach, Parshas Chukat, and Parshas Balak is far more than a chronological sequence. Together, these three...

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Boruch Rizel

Holocaust Analogies Are Not Campaign Rhetoric

Words matter. Holocaust imagery matters even more. When New York Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Blakeman said that the next Congressman from...

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Eitan Berechman

The Many Faces of Jewish Identity

The Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group with shared origins in the Land of Israel, but Jewish history has unfolded across many different regions...

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Jacqueline Snidman-Stren

Entebbe at 50: Israel Refused to Leave Jews Behind

Fifty years ago this week, the world witnessed one of the most extraordinary rescue missions in modern history. On June 27, 1976, Air France Flight...

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Shane Shmuel

Breaking the Port Monopoly: How Berbera Is Redrawing Power in the Horn of Africa

For decades, the Horn of Africa has been defined by a fragile economic equilibrium: landlocked Ethiopia relies on Djibouti for over 95% of its...

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Mohamed Osman

The French Resistance Movement And Jews

The French resistance movement battling the pro-German Vichy regime and its ally, Nazi Germany, was a source of hope to persecuted Jews in France. The...

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Sheldon Kirshner

The Islamabad Memorandum

The Islamabad Memorandum

The Cartography of American Retreat and Israel’s Existential Reckoning – A Geopolitical Analysis History has a habit of disguising turning points...

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Yashwant Singh

Washington Mediates Historic Israel-Lebanon Framework Agreement

Washington Mediates Historic Israel-Lebanon Framework Agreement

In a remarkable turn of events, Israel and Lebanon have signed a historic framework agreement in Washington, a move that many analysts are hailing as...

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Junaid Qaiser

Israel Trusted Trump. Iran Studied Him.

Israel Trusted Trump. Iran Studied Him.

Iran was bombed through late February and March. Its supreme leader was killed, its ports blockaded, its oil revenue cut to a trickle. By Trump’s...

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Celeo Ramirez

We Who Believe in Freedom

You know that moment when you come back to the present moment but didn’t realize you had left? Best described as mysterious experiences of time...

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Heidi Basch-Harod

What to the Ashkenazi Jew is the Fourth of July?

What to the Ashkenazi Jew is the Fourth of July?

I am a fourth-generation American, and my ancestors are lost to Jewish history. They authored no books for me to discover; their names are not...

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Zahava Feldstein

An infectious illness: Obsession

An infectious illness: Obsession

The “Palestinian” infectious illness: Obsession Some people spend their lives building. They create businesses. They invent products. They develop...

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Sabine Sterk

Why I Wrote ‘The Last Wall’

I wrote “The Last Wall” because I felt that something essential had to be said plainly. There are moments in history when euphemisms become a form...

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Roberto Rachewsky

The Integrated Barrel?

In March 2026, buried in Saudi Aramco’s annual report, the world’s largest oil company quietly deferred its flagship downstream target. The 4...

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Vincent James Hooper

How Propaganda Chooses the Date

I grew up under Communism. That is not a complaint. It is a qualification. I watched a government edit reality in front of people who could see the...

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Eugene J. Levin

Israel’s strategic security hinges on Gaza, not the UAE

Israel’s strategic security hinges on Gaza, not the UAE

For the last six years, a particular narrative has circulated through the pro‑Israel media ecosystem: that the future of Middle Eastern stability...

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William Keenan

Life In The South: Last Week In Merhavim

Last Tuesday was my last day teaching in Merhavim, but unfortunately, as has happened so many times over the last month, my lessons were cancelled. As...

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Orna Raz

Korach and the Mob

Korach is one of the most dangerous political figures in the Torah because he says something that sounds true. In Numbers 16, Korach and his men rise...

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

The Permitted Enemy: Israel as NYC’s Moral Test

The Permitted Enemy: Israel as NYC’s Moral Test

For a mayoral race in New York City. The job is the MTA, the NYPD, the schools, the rent, the rats, the parking, and the snow. There is no Israel desk...

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Joanne Strasser

New Strategy of War

Endurance, Perception, and the Power of Asymmetry The New Logic of Asymmetric War: How Endurance, Symbolic Victory, and Pain Tolerance Reshape Modern...

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Soli Foger

Age of Reason: Episode 17

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Benjamin Folkinshteyn

PARASHAT BALAK: When Exile Turns into Blessing

PARASHAT BALAK: When Exile Turns into Blessing

The camp of Moav does not sleep in peace. From the hills, Balak watches the movement of a people advancing without noise, like a slow current that...

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Yosef B. Moran