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The Battle for the Gen Z Mind

Virtually every one born between 1997 and 2012, “Generation Z,” carries a smartphone in their pocket. This means Gen Z has more access to...

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Ezra greenspan

Remembering Abe Foxman, a Leader & Warrior against Antisemitism

Remembering Abe Foxman, a Leader & Warrior against Antisemitism

Yesterday we lost a devoted, loyal and staunch advocate of the Jewish people, Abe Foxman (of Blessed Memory) who passed away at the age of 86. Abe was...

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Joseph scutts

What Does Shemittah Have to Do with Smartphones? – B’har-B’hukkotai 5786

So this past week, I was in a supermarket, and I went to the front desk because I could not find the Cape Cod chips in the 100-calorie bag. I am...

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David Lerner

The True Love Is Sharing Your Popcorn

I once heard someone say that true love is sharing your popcorn. Not offering a few pieces out of politeness. Actually handing over the bucket without...

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Ankit gawande

UK Antisemitism Moves From Margins to Mainstream

UK Antisemitism Moves From Margins to Mainstream

A surge in antisemitic intimidation, paired with political equivocation, is testing Britain’s civic compact and exposing the state’s difficulty in...

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Saurav Dutt

Ten Key Points Netanyahu Wanted Americans to Hear in 60 Minutes Interview

Ten Key Points Netanyahu Wanted Americans to Hear in 60 Minutes Interview

Much of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s interview with Major Garrett that aired Sunday night did not make it into the televised 60 Minutes...

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Seth Eisenberg

What Happens When You Stop Believing Your Own Worst Thoughts

There’s a particular kind of madness that happens in a bathroom at 7:12am. Fluorescent lighting that could double as an interrogation tactic, a...

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Talyah Ginsberg

Vincent Descombes Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #334

Vincent Descombes is one of the major figures of contemporary French philosophy, known for his work at the intersection of analytic philosophy, social...

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Alexandre Gilbert

‘Like one person, with one heart’

We are about to celebrate the anniversary when we stood at the foot of Mount Sinai, and the Almighty revealed His presence to us, telling us the Ten...

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Yoseph Janowski

A Nation Infected

There is a societal disease spreading across the United States. It has penetrated public schools, university campuses, corporations, media...

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Steve Wenick

Devotion 23 — Sh’ma and Silence

When Quiet Makes Listening Possible “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “Be still, and know that I am...

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Ed Gaskin

Iran’s Bluff: Playing a weak hand Like a winner

Iran’s Bluff: Playing a weak hand Like a winner

At first glance, Iran’s behavior makes little sense. Its economy is battered, its currency has collapsed, inflation is crushing ordinary citizens,...

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Haggai carmon

Fellow Toronto Jews: the world is not ending for us. Neil Diamond taught me this.

Fellow Toronto Jews: the world is not ending for us. Neil Diamond taught me this.

Good news, fellow Toronto Jews. The world is not ending for us. Neil Diamond taught me this. At the Mother’s Day matinee of A Beautiful Noise at the...

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David Matlow

Beyond the Deal: Trump Must Hold The Line

Beyond the Deal: Trump Must Hold The Line

As diplomatic flurries intensify between Washington and Tehran, the US, Israel, and, indeed, the whole world find themselves at a pivotal moment...

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Aaron t. walter

The Holocaust In Lithuania

To Lithuanian historian Algimantas Kasparavicius, the greatest tragedy of 20th century Lithuania occurred not when it lost its statehood following the...

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Sheldon Kirshner

Israel Exports AI. Its SMBs Still Copy-Paste

Israel Exports AI. Its SMBs Still Copy-Paste

The country that built the technology transforming global business operations hasn’t brought that technology home — and its SMB sector is paying...

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Lora petruskevich

AI, Hantavirus and the New Health Security

The hantavirus outbreak linked to infections aboard the MV Hondius, which arrived in the Canary Islands after several passengers were reported ill,...

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Emanuele Rossi

Rami Dabbas Acquitted After 11 Months in Prison

Acquitted After 11 Months: Jordanian Court Closes the Case Against Political Analyst Rami Dabbas Rami Dabbas drew widespread attention across social...

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Rami al dabbas

Ben Gvir’s Death Penalty Dream Is Israel’s Nightmare

Ben Gvir’s Death Penalty Dream Is Israel’s Nightmare

Last week, Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir once again provoked global recriminations when he posted an AI-generated...

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Michael Zoosman

The Start Of A Messianic Hope For A Peaceful World

The three monotheistic Prophet Abraham religions, all have important information about the evil end of the ‘end of the old world; and the great...

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Allen S. Maller

The Dodo Bird, the Kanaani Cat, and the Jewish Question of What Must Be Saved

The Dodo Bird, the Kanaani Cat, and the Jewish Question of What Must Be Saved

There are moments in history when humanity realizes too late that something irreplaceable has disappeared. The Dodo bird became one of those moments....

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Mikhail Salita

According to the Rules of the Russian Language

According to the Rules of the Russian Language

Note: This article is a translation of my Russian-language piece «Согласно правилам русского языка» (“According to...

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Ivan Bassov

True Friendship Lives Beyond Time and Space

True Friendship Lives Beyond Time and Space (Reflection on the Special Haftorah to Torah Portion Bamidbar) True friendship is caring for one’s...

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Michel M.j. Shore

When History Gets Turned Upside Down

When History Gets Turned Upside Down

There is a persistent temptation to measure conflicts in missiles, troop movements, and territorial gains. But in the long struggle surrounding Israel...

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Sabine Sterk

Israel, the Island

In September 2025, a diplomat from Tuvalu raised a small placard against the creation of a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly....

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Gil Mildar

Israel’s Iraq Gambit: Tehran’s Uranium Encircled

Israel’s Iraq Gambit: Tehran’s Uranium Encircled

The Wall Street Journal investigation into Israel’s secret forward base in Iraq’s western desert offers more than a wartime footnote. It supplies...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Securely In Your Land

It is interesting to note that both in Parshat Behar and in Parshat Bechkotai, we have the verse, וישבתם לבטח בארצכם, “And you shall...

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Kenneth Cohen

The Riga Witness, the Vilnius Defendant

For five years, I researched and documented the history and legacy of the Baltic Holocaust while producing my documentary Baltic Truth, now available...

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Eugene J. Levin

Kurds and Jews Stand Together in London

Kurds and Jews Stand Together in London

Kurds and Jews in London: From a Protest Rally to a Political and Humanitarian Message Against Hatred, Extremism, and Oppression On Sunday, 10 May...

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Ashtyako Poorkarim

When and Why We Question

When and Why We Question

Avraham’s Silence and Protest – Faith, Justice, and Moral Courage This essay is one of the winning submissions to the Rabbi Sacks Essay Contest....

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Jonathan Sacks

Will OPEC Collapse?

The UAE’s exit from OPEC on May 1 was not a tantrum. It was a strategic calculation years in the making. Abu Dhabi had invested $150 billion...

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Vincent James Hooper

The Most Dangerous Man in Israel / The Dangers Ahead for Israel

Every election in Israel seems to be the most important. We are a small country and the government that forms has direct impact on the lives of all of...

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Lonny Baskin

Israel–Hezbollah: FPV Killer Drones

A New Strategic Constraint and an Iranian Center of Gravity An Asymmetrical War Recentered on Proximity The confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah...

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Francis Moritz

Rededicating America’s Greatness by Destroying the Islamic Republic

It pains me to see terms of what may be an end to the current and essential war against the Islamic Republic of Iran that may end up leaving the...

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Marziyeh Amirizadeh

Humpty Dumpty was never meant to be a statesman. He was meant to be a warning.

Before the unveiling, the figure was blessed. Pastor Mark Burns — Trump’s longtime spiritual adviser and a candidate for Congress in South...

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Paul Mendlowitz

Back to the sources… back to the future

I recently attended a healthcare conference in Washington, DC. It was the first time back in my hometown in many years. No surprise, much has changed....

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Nigel A. Spier

The Soviet Court That Never Left

The Soviet Court That Never Left

Lithuania’s free-speech performance collapses when Facebook posts and YouTube videos become state files. Lithuania left the Soviet Union in 1990....

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Feeling Like Freud at the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Feeling Like Freud at the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Were the mental health crises I witnessed in American Jewish teenagers a symptom of a political destabilization already on its way? For many years I...

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Rich Kirschen

That sting in the tail for ‘balance’ merely adds fuel to the fire of Jew-hate

Have you noticed how the Golders Green stabbings seem to have been a tipping point in the perception of antisemitism in the UK. Although all those...

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Jan Shure

Dear Bnei Akiva Summer-Camp Tzevet:

Bnei Akiva is tucked into the very folds of my DNA. It is a mosaic of late-night conversations, lifelong friendships, and a value system that helped...

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Shachar ben-ami

‘Giant’ and Criticism of Israel

I was on my way to see the play Giant when an LED-light-clad advertising trucks rolled by, as they are wont to do on Broadway and Times Square. The...

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Nathaniel weintraub

Stronger Than Commandment: A Mother’s Day Letter

I know not to ask you how you are this Mother’s Day. Or any other day. Because every day, all year long, for eternity, you remain Hersh’s mother....

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Nina L. Kampler

Featured Post

Featured Post

For 17 years, I had the privilege of working alongside – and learning from – Abe Foxman, one of the great Jewish leaders of our time.  To almost...

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Laura Kam

Until This Day: My Mother’s Matzevah

Until This Day: Reflections at My Mother’s Matzevah Last week, our family gathered at Agecroft Beis Hachayim in Manchester to set the matzevah for...

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Jonathan guttentag

The Anti Israel Horseshoe Theory: How Israel is Reshaping the 2026 Midterms

The Anti Israel Horseshoe Theory: How Israel is Reshaping the 2026 Midterms

For decades, support for Israel was one of the few issues that united Republicans and Democrats in Washington. Liberals saw Israel as a democratic...

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Ethan Kushner

The Weight and Light of Being Jewish

I can still remember what it felt like to notice, for the first time, that being Jewish made me different. It was never a single moment, but a series...

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Ariel berger

There Is No Such Thing as a Regular Israeli Family

In the comfortable boardrooms and lecture halls of the West, a dangerous, slanderous narrative has taken root: the idea that Israel is a European...

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Avi alpert

Were there haredi yeshivas during our 40 years in the desert? (Bamidbar)

Do they even bother to read Parshat Bamidbar in haredi yeshivot and synagogues? If so, do they pay attention to what is being read? The verse...

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J.j Gross

Devotion 22 — Sh’ma and the Stranger

Listening Beyond Familiar Voices “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “You shall love the stranger, for...

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Ed Gaskin

Out of Sync

Out of Sync

It’s happening again this year — that odd Jewish calendar quirk where the Torah readings in Israel and the diaspora fall out of sync. This year,...

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Michael Feldstein