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J Street’s Credibility Problem

Nicholas Kristof’s recent op-ed was riddled with disputed claims, unsupported assertions and inflammatory rhetoric. Yet the column served an...

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Robert Huebscher

From Hating Israel to Loving Israel in 24 Hours

From Hating Israel to Loving Israel in 24 Hours

From Hating Israel to Loving Israel in One Single Day Not for everyone. Some people are so deeply poisoned by generational antisemitism that facts no...

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Sabine Sterk

Shavuot

Shavuot is the holiday when we celebrate the greatest day in human history. The Revelation on Mount Sinai when all of Israel heard G-d speak was...

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Kenneth Cohen

A Unique Relationship In The Arab World

Israel’s relationship with the United Arab Emirates is like no other in the Arab world. Israel has forged peace treaties and normalization accords...

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Sheldon Kirshner

Beyond the Binary: A Jewish–Palestinian Friendship That Defies the Conflict

Beyond the Binary: A Jewish–Palestinian Friendship That Defies the Conflict

Episode 1 of Our Stories Matter podcast  hosted by the Trauma Informed Learning Alliance, opened this season’s theme, Civil Engagement in an Era of...

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Susie Hess

One’s Place in the World (A Primer for Shavuot)

Approaching Passover, the main theme is to rid your household of leavened bread—meaning the type that we normally eat—in all of its varieties,...

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Ehud Neor

Euro-Vision: The NYT Is An Antisemitic Rag

Introduction: The Battle for the Cultural Public Square In the modern landscape of global communications, the line between culture and geopolitics has...

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Gedalia Walls

Duck Arithmetic : Contradiction, Certainty, and the Jewish State

Duck Arithmetic : Contradiction, Certainty, and the Jewish State

Permit me a brief exercise in arithmetic. 2 2 = 4 is true. 2 2 = 7 is false. 2 2 = a mallard duck is something else entirely. ...

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Peter Himmelman

The Curious Case of Israel

Here is a snapshot of current events in Israel. There is ongoing fighting in brutal wars with Hezbollah and Hamas and the possibility of renewed...

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Yona prisman

The best edition of Mishne Torah volume one

The 2025 bilingual edition of The Steinsaltz Mishne Torah: Sefer Hamadda and Sefer Ahava by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, published by Koren...

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Israel Drazin

When Fat Tails Become the Norm: The New Geometry of Geopolitical Risk

In quantitative finance, the fat tail is a warning — a statistical reminder that extreme events occur far more frequently than the elegant bell...

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Vincent James Hooper

Redemptive Antisemitism 2.0: A Quieter Logic

Redemptive Antisemitism 2.0: A Quieter Logic

I come from a family of enthusiastic Democrats. My brother volunteers in his local party, made calls and canvassed for Kamala in 2024, and knows every...

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Joanne strasser

São Paulo and MASHAV Sign Agreement for Environmental Education

São Paulo and MASHAV Sign Agreement for Environmental Education

The City of São Paulo has signed an international cooperation agreement with the Israeli Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV),...

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Silas Anastacio

“I’m Around Palestinians and I’m Fine” Is Not the Profound Point Some Think

“I’m Around Palestinians and I’m Fine” Is Not the Profound Point Some Think

There’s a certain genre of social media video right now that has become incredibly predictable: an anti-Zionist Jewish creator stands in a...

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Ryan Aviv Fagan

Israel Recognized Somaliland. Why Is Africa Afraid to Follow?

Israel Recognized Somaliland. Why Is Africa Afraid to Follow?

Recognition is not destabilization. Refusing reality is. Israel did what Africa’s diplomatic class has refused to do for more than three decades. It...

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The New School’s Fight Over Hillel

On many college campuses, Jewish student spaces have increasingly become targets for ideological confrontation when associated with Israel. The issue...

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Kayla rubin

Context or Content in Responding to Kristof in NYTimes

Regarding Nicholas Kristof’s recent, May 11 New York Times column, “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians.”  ...

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Honey kessler amado

University: A Reckoning by Lee C. Bollinger

University: A Reckoning by Lee C. Bollinger

My years at Columbia University from 2013 to 2017 remain the most significant accomplishment of my life and among my most cherished memories. To be...

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Tony D. Senatore

The Acceptable Jew

There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from watching people who share your history work hard to be the exception. To be invited to the...

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Tsahi shemesh

Still an Activist, Not Yet New York’s Mayor

Still an Activist, Not Yet New York’s Mayor

There are official acts that reveal more about what their author thinks an office is for than any speech could. The video released by the mayor of New...

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Sagit Alkobi Fishman

The covenant beyond the algorithm

Shavuot arrives each year with a radical proposition: that wisdom is not simply acquired, but encountered. The holiday commemorates revelation at...

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Daphne Lazar Price

The Secret of Chabad’s Success Is No Secret

Across the United States and much of the Western world, affiliation with synagogues and churches has been declining for decades, especially since the...

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Steve Wenick

Living By God’s Treasure

Psalm 8 is not only one of the most beautiful of the psalms, but also one of the most enigmatic. At first, it sings of God’s supreme majesty and the...

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Mordechai Silverstein

Everyone Plays a Part- Bemidbar 5786

One of the things I love about my job is that there’s no such thing as a “typical” day. Being a pulpit rabbi is not your typical 9-to-5 job like...

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Ben Einsidler

The Dignity of Choosing Your Own Cereal

More than twenty years ago, I asked my Uncle Sholom why Colel Chabad distributed food in a certain way. I honestly don’t remember the details of the...

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Grunya tzivin

Training in a Religious Combat Unit with the IDF

“Remember Hashem your God for it is He who gives you strength to fight…” ~Devarim 8:18 “Strive to be a warrior and a scholar. Be forged by...

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Yehonatan Ben Israel

The Strange Sympathy for Iranian Ambiguity

When the world doubts Israeli warning and decodes Iranian threat Tehran has long understood something about the West that the West is slow to admit...

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Ab Boskany

The Shameful Company of Global Executioners that Israel now Keeps

The Shameful Company of Global Executioners that Israel now Keeps

We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” across Israel and the world, lament the fact that the two barbaric...

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Michael Zoosman

Baltimore: Actually, I Like It

Baltimore: Actually, I Like It

For decades, Baltimore carried a reputation many Americans knew long before ever setting foot there. Crime headlines, abandoned factories, and...

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Motti Verses

Assemblies of God President Welcomes Israel’s Consul in São Paulo Meeting

In a fraternal atmosphere on Thursday morning (14), Pastor José Wellington Costa Junior, President of the General Convention of Ministers of the...

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Silas Anastacio

Future Rescue Technology: Live AI-Dog Systems for Battlefields and Earthquakes

Image: An Oketz Unit dog during operational activity.  Future AI-assisted systems may transform rescue dogs into real-time sensing and communication...

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Rafi Glick

I’m Not a Zionist, I’m a Zionistish Person

I’m Not a Zionist, I’m a Zionistish Person

Jewish Person, Parent #1, Parent #2, and Other Linguistic Innovations of Our Time There was a time when English was a relatively simple language. You...

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Ivan Bassov

Eurovision and the Cain Envy Syndrome

The Eurovision Contest (a competition I don’t watch because I don’t like it) has ended and we witnessed the classic political phenomenon in which...

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Yaacov amar rothstein

Holy Temple: A contradiction in terms? (Parshat Naso)

I have long argued that the Mishkan, the Tent of Assembly, that was so aesthetically, rigorously and meticulously crafted in the desert was never...

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J.j Gross

UAE dismantles Iran-linked terror cells

UAE dismantles Iran-linked terror cells

Amid regional tensions and Iranian attacks on Gulf states, information disclosed in the United Arab Emirates shows the activity of dismantled...

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Salem Alketbi

Devotion 30 — Sh’ma as a Way of Life

The Journey Continues “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “These words that I command you today shall be...

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Ed Gaskin

Why the US Israel Alliance Is Irreplaceable

Why the US Israel Alliance Is Irreplaceable

In the aftermath of Operation Roaring Lion/Epic Fury, one truth has become impossible to ignore: when the United States needed a dependable ally in...

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Mark ginsberg

Imagine: Iran’s evil regime might soon be gone

Imagine a world where Iran surrenders. Imagine a world where China doesn’t threaten Uyghurs or Taiwanese or anyone else. Where Israel is at peace...

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Yoseph Janowski

Great TV: ‘Boston Blue’ & Its Shabbat Tradition

Great TV: ‘Boston Blue’ & Its Shabbat Tradition

In a time of chaos and conflict in the world, I am a big fan of shows that take a problem and solve it in an hour. It is probably good for my mental...

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Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

Modena – Calculated Risk

Last week, I wrote my blog from Basel in Switzerland, the city where Theodor Herzl imagined a national home for the Jewish people. We were in transit,...

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Claire R. Bright

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As the Knesset prepares to vote on its dissolution, concerns are mounting over the erosion of public trust in state institutions and the electoral...

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Shimon Sheves

Bernie Sanders Gets It Wrong Once Again

In the continuing criticism of Israel seemingly emerging from every voice of Democratic and Independent legislators in the U.S., the Jewish kid from...

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Sherwin Pomerantz

Sanders Strikes Again

What do you call someone who crossed an ocean to campaign for a known Jew hater? Jeremy Corbyn, a British politician, former Leader of the Labour...

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Ginette Weiner

From Zimbabwe to Jerusalem: A Lesson in Governance and Restraint

To understand how official attitudes toward proper governance have changed in Israel in recent decades, one can look at the flood of appointments now...

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Tova Herzl

Featured Post

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I used to think I was an extrovert. Social situations give me energy. I like meeting new people, learning what makes them tick, and swapping stories...

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Kally Rubin Kislowicz

The Tribe of Levi

The Tribe of Levi was counted differently from the other tribes of Israel. They were counted from one month in age rather than twenty years, as was...

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Kenneth Cohen

Hezbollah Is Plotting to Kill Lebanon’s Leaders

Hezbollah Is Plotting to Kill Lebanon’s Leaders

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam have done what too many of their predecessors refused to do: openly accuse Hezbollah of...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Unconditional Support:The True Meaning of Advocacy

Unconditional Support:The True Meaning of Advocacy

​The global landscape of Israel advocacy has shifted in a troubling direction. Increasingly, we witness a phenomenon where support from abroad comes...

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Sabine Sterk

A History of Tribal Humor Infotainment

A History of Tribal Humor Infotainment

Two months ago, I reposted a statement from Donald Trump into a WhatsApp group chat after one of the flare-ups involving Iran. I remember the...

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Matthew Robin

Egypt and Pakistan Are Co-Producing Weapons. Read the Fine Print.

Egypt’s military establishment does not make moves casually, and its deepening defense industrial partnership with Pakistan deserves more scrutiny...

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Amine Ayoub