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Walk into the Israeli WhatsApp-bot market in 2026 and the first thing you notice is how similar every offer looks. A dozen vendors, a dozen landing...
There are ships that carry cargo. And there are ships that carry evidence. PANORMITIS, IMO: 9445021, now looks like the second kind. The bulk carrier...
There are moments in life when a simple message can penetrate the soul and move it to its absolute core. A few days ago I received an email regarding...
The festival of Shavuot (Pentecot) which falls seven weeks after Pesach (this year beginning at sunset on May 21), marks the completion of a twofold...
Leadership often means sorting urgency from importance. Not every issue deserves the same emotional energy, meeting time, or institutional attention....
South Sudan Won the Right to Choose. Mthwakazi Is Asking to Be Heard. Israel’s recognition of Somaliland may prove to be one of the most important...
In a classroom during Jewish American Heritage Month, a contradiction played out that says more about our moment than any headline. On one side sat a...
Shavuot, which falls this week, has been my favorite holiday since arriving in Israel in the 1980s. But four decades is more than enough time to...
The 2026 Eurovision is finally over, but the political controversy rumbles on. Despite calls for a boycott and a months-long campaign to try to have...
This year’s Jerusalem Day celebrations revealed something impossible to ignore about modern Israeli society and politics. As tens of thousands...
Xi assured Trump that China won’t give Iran weapons. Right after the summit, Trump warned Iran that if they don’t make a deal to give up its...
I learned with shock and dismay about the recent departure of Microsoft Israel’s general manager, Alon Haimovich. Apparently, he resigned due to an...
Every honeymoon inevitably ends the exact same way. You walk into your own kitchen a few days after the trip and realize the room service is gone. The...
When Michael Oren, who served as Israel’s ambassador to the US and as deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, calls on the diaspora Jews...
Listening for the World to Come “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “They shall not hurt or destroy on...
History Thriller about Art, Good and Evil In mid-March 2026, at the annual TEFAF Maastricht art fair of the best fine art on the market, a very...
Speaking without vaseline: Karet and the Demographic Judgment of the Diaspora In the Torah there exists a divine punishment called Karet. It means to...
This year, I experienced Jerusalem Day in Jerusalem for the first time, camera in hand, walking through the city to document what I saw. Jerusalem Day...
On a Monument That Is Also a Civilization’s Unfinished Argument With Itself “Yā Kundendutusārahāradhavalā, yā śubhravastrāvṛtā.” She...
One day a message appeared on my screen. It came from someone I had never met or known and asked about my translation of articles by Verdina Shlonsky....
When the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Joel Mokyr as a co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, it added...
In the afternoon of Saturday, May 16, a 31-year-old individual of Moroccan origins identified as Salim El Koudri rammed his car against pedestrians in...
The stones of the Kotel stood bathed in the soft light of a Jerusalem morning as tens of thousands gathered for Birkat Kohanim during Chol HaMoed...
Carl Sagan famously observed that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” That principle is especially important when accusations...
When considering our Shavuot menu, which has traditionally been centered around dairy dishes, we should consider how cruel the modern dairy industry...
The latest Science Friday podcast reports that “an upcoming resupply mission will carry [cancer] tumor samples to the International Space Station...
In Marxism, the proletariat is the class destined to liberate humanity through the revolution. Its claim to moral and political authority rests on its...
We all know the story of Shavuos—the day the world shook. We remember Ma’amad Har Sinai (The Standing at Mount Sinai), the single most monumental...
Abstract: The US Navy is without a doubt the strongest naval force humanity has ever seen. Yet it stands opposed by a third-rate military power that...
Mayor Mamdani’s late Friday afternoon pronouncement honoring naqba day and terming that “catastrophe”—Israel’s existence—“ongoing”–...
For most of my life, people have known me as one of the most relentless pro Israel advocates around. For more than twelve years, day and night,...
Eurovision and the Failure of Managed Absence The most interesting fact about Eurovision 2026 is not that Israel did not win. Bulgaria won, and did so...
In a remarkable show of diplomatic dedication to peace, the United States successfully facilitated two days of fruitful negotiations between Israel...
American Jewry is currently living through a remarkably dark era. It is certainly the darkest era I’ve lived through in my 37 years. The Jewish...
“Do not leave the body hanging overnight…for it is an affront to God; do not defile the land that the Lord your God is giving you.” (Deut....
The Book of Bamidbar begins with the command to count the Jewish males from the age of twenty to sixty. The purpose of the counting was to bring the...
As America moves from National Shabbat into Rededicate 250 weekend, Ishay Ribo’s Ochila LaKel calls us to wait for G‑d, guard our words, and begin...
When the third round of U.S.-mediated Israel-Lebanon talks ended at the State Department in Washington on May 15, the United States announced a 45-day...
For years, one of the absolute best perks of returning regularly to synagogue has been rediscovering a very specific, distinctly Jewish superpower:...
Conspicuously absent from the mainstream media this week was any serious coverage of, or celebration surrounding, “Shabbat 250.” For those who may...
The world appears solid, fixed, and immovable. A wall is a wall, a window is a window, and the difference between them seems obvious: one blocks...
Fatah’s Eighth General Congress on May 14, 2026, delivered exactly what the Palestinian political system always produces: stagnation disguised as...
We’d just finished the mix of a new song. Sitting between the speakers, listening to the crescendo at the song’s end, the drums and bass, the...
For eight years, the two men treated each other as adversaries. Still, Netanyahu tried to stand up to Obama without destroying Israel’s good...
At my grandmother’s funeral this week, I noticed some movement near the grave. At the moment I did not realize what it was. Only afterward did I...
A long time ago, at the end of the last century, I remember a photograph of Theodor Herzl hanging on the staircase of the Colégio Israelita...
Last night, my IDF Palmar medical evacuation team and I were treating and extracting two soldiers from Lebanon. One, Lt Maoz (24), tragically, did...
Although I was born in Israel and grew up in Haifa, I did not have a close Modern Orthodox friend until after I returned to Israel following almost...
To understand why the coverage from legacy newsrooms in the U.S. feels so calculated, one must look beyond the hard-working, under-paid editors,...
Sefer Bamidbar (Numbers) teaches us that there is no shortcut to genuine religiosity. To achieve it, one needs to dwell for years in a desert, full of...
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