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So interesting how language both informs and reflects culture. Way back when I began learning Hebrew, I looked up the word for “study.” All that...
Call it inconceivable—if not unthinkable. In international politics, today’s impossibilities have a habit of becoming tomorrow’s realities. If...
From Holocaust Remembrance Day through Memorial Day to Independence Day, Israel compresses Jewish history into eight days, and reminds the world what...
Russia’s latest attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not really about historical sensitivity. It is about power, hierarchy, and the...
Last night at our UVM Hillel’s Yom HaZikaron dinner I deeply felt the impact of the Jewish Agency for Israel shlichim on our campus and around the...
With echoes of the Passover still reverberating, the story of the Exodus, of a people breaking free as Egypt collapsed under Pharaoh, offers a...
Under cover of Israel’s wars in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Iran since 2023, the Israeli government has consolidated its control of the West Bank...
The overreaction of the world press to the idiotic behavior of the IDF soldier who bashed a statue of Jesus that was on a cross in the garden of a...
There’s the home I’m waiting to own, Furnished just to my tastes. And a business that I can conjure, Though it lives mostly in conceptual space....
Leaders of American Jewish organizations and religious institutions should take note that 40 of 47 Democrat Senators just voted to block a bill...
Yom HaAtzmaut offers a moment to reflect not only on independence, but on the deeper continuity that has shaped the land of Israel. Understanding this...
Life happens on two tracks for every individual who has lost a loved one to war and terrorism throughout Israel’s history. Life itself and the...
Loving Israel Without Lying About It: Diaspora Jewish schools celebrate the dream of Israel. They rarely teach about the expensive slums, unpaid...
What the ceasefire teaches about the heart and soul of Israeli identity. Life goes on in Israel, ceasefire or not. We hear sirens, head to the miklat...
It is midday Yom Haatzma’ut 78th (Israel Independence Day) as I sit and write this post. On this 78th Independence Day in Israel, I, personally, am...
Happy Earth Day! Does anyone else feel the irony: Israel’s Independence Day and a celebration of the global environment falling on the same day? Our...
A word that holds the weight of centuries. The quiet prayers of my parents and grandparents, and all those before them, whispered across continents...
Recent polling on U.S. attitudes toward Israel points to a troubling and accelerating shift. Favorability has declined sharply, particularly along...
For the past few months or perhaps years, depending on how you count, I’ve been bushwhacking my way off the beaten path of contemporary Jewish...
A fundraising campaign for the South African BDS Coalition has been posted on the Facebook page of Nigel Branken on 18 April 2026. All proceeds are...
He sat in his cell, rubbing away his tears, asking himself: What the hell was I thinking? Why did I lift that sledgehammer and bring it down on the...
Last week I wrote about the reality that Judaism was never just a religion. Here, I want to consider what happens when we start labeling what kind of...
Everything begins with Hamas launching the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It did so against the backdrop of a deep crisis within the...
Though famous for their informal dress and way of speech, Israelis are enamored of formal ceremonies. Independence Day is, of course, a hub of such...
There are moments in history when the global economy feels steady and predictable, even if imperfect. And then there are moments like this one, where...
At a time when things were about to escalate, Donald Trump opted to extend the ceasefire with Iran—but not without a reminder of the ongoing risks....
A reflection on Parashot Acharei Mot–Kedoshim Woody Allen once joked that he suffers from post-partum depression, because since the day he was born,...
Like modern Israel, I was born in 1948. She is young and vibrant; I am old and contemplative. I have always considered myself blessed to have been...
On the Pahalgam anniversary, Israelis stand shoulder‑to‑shoulder with India; two nations bound by grief, courage, and the unbroken will to live. A...
I have been reading Susanne Heim’s Die Abschottung der Welt. Als Juden vor verschlossenen Grenzen standen 1933–1945, and what stays with me is not...
Driven by a global diaspora reshaping economies and alliances, India’s rise is redrawing the map of influence; and offering Israel fresh avenues for...
Blind Spots and Bias Against Israel In the Netherlands, something striking has taken hold in public discourse. A country far removed from the...
The statements do not quite line up. Escalation is threatened, then paused. A ceasefire is dismissed, then extended. Total control is claimed in one...
At the cost of suffering among citizens of the Middle East at severe odds over bloodshed and territory, though as a peaceful collective by way of a...
I am so immensely proud of you, as is your mom who articulated so many beautiful truths in her own letter to you. I agree with all of it, and all of...
In a rare alignment, Israel’s Independence Day converges this year with International Earth Day. The timing is perfect. While wars, grief, and a...
Six months into my mid-career rabbinic ordination program at The Shalom Hartman Institute, I received a phone call from my very secular Israeli cousin...
Ask ten Israelis whether they live in a welfare state and you will receive, with Talmudic predictability, eleven opinions. The Haredi family drawing...
The theme of Yom Ha’atzmaut, is giving thanks to Hashem for returning us to Eretz Yisrael, and establishing the State of Israel. It was established...
As Israel marks another Yom Ha’atzmaut, the contrast is unavoidable. We celebrate independence while still carrying the trauma of October 7. We...
I made Baltic Truth because I could see what Lithuania was selling the West and I knew the product did not exist. Five years later, Lithuania is still...
For many centuries before Prophet Abraham, thousands of the One God’s Prophets were unable to build an ongoing monotheistic community. “The people...
I’m very even tempered and flexible about life (never upset by much), except for two problems, one of which I can’t do much about is world wide...
As we approach Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut—Israel’s Independence Day, the country’s 78th birthday—I find myself reflecting. This piece was...
This Friday, the 8th of Iyar, marks the 9th anniversary of my father’s passing. I would like to share a few words about my father and a few...
The Congregação Israelita Paulista (CIP) announces that charity tickets are now available for the preview of Dibuk, the Musical, which will take...
One could hardly describe the Russian Orthodox Church (hereafter: ROC) as an independent institution with a clear separation from the state. It is...
Isn’t it amazing just how arrogant and brazen the pro-Palestinian movement has become in America? It is now not enough that groups like Students for...
When Charlie Kirk was killed at a Turning Point USA event in Utah on September 10, 2025, many conservatives—including myself—pointed to the...
The same symbolic and developmental structures that shape the regime’s use of force also limit its capacity to transform from within. [AI...
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