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What should Israel do when a war in Europe reshapes the global balance of power? How should a small state behave when its main ally confronts...


Part Two of a Three-Week Odyssey Too much happens in Israel every day and every minute of every day. It is for this reason I am dividing up my...

By the end of December, Gaza could find itself at a pivotal diplomatic juncture, the most significant since the ceasefire took hold nearly two...

On December 9, 2025, the world witnessed a bureaucratic photo op that may one day be remembered as the moment the nuclear fuse was lit in North...


“Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” (Golda Meir) For decades, world leaders have promised peace for the...

December 8 marks the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and the arrival in power of Ahmed al-Sharaa. It is a date that many...

ואתם תהיו לי ממלכת כהנים וגוי קדוש I want this line to stand first on its own. Not as a devotional ornament and not as a...

Parashat Vayeishev In our world today, studies continue to reveal a painful truth: when people witness harm, many choose to stand aside. They...


For years, many Israelis and commentators abroad spoke about Netanyahu as if his guilt was already established, and the trials were expected to...

When Israeli reservists return home from their military service, re-entering civilian life is often no simple matter. Coming back to their...

Carney wants to give parts of Israel to the Palestinians. Now Canadian Indigenous want parts of Canada. It just doesn’t pay to start up with...

I am a Zionist Jew who has served Africa my entire life—because giving is what we Jews do. Jewish Americans, just 2% of the population, account for...

The death of Rachel was one of the most tragic stories in the Torah. Yakov’s one true love perished while giving birth to Binyamin, the youngest of...

Salman Schocken died alone in one of Switzerland’s hotel rooms, clutching two outstanding books, Reb Nahman’s stories, Goethe’s Faust, in his two...

There is a hard truth that has sat quietly in the background of Christian theology for almost two thousand years. Christianity, for all its beauty...

A Blessed Human Rights Day to You. On December 10, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust and the catastrophic disregard for human life that marked...


Anger, jealousy, revenge, obsession—these forces sit at the root of so many of our personal and national struggles. We often have only ourselves to...

When the dream of the living hostages returning home came to fruition this past October, our community looked for ways to ritualize the moment....
