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Yonit, Jonathan — here are true Jewish American heroes

Yonit, Jonathan — here are true Jewish American heroes

There was a fun diversion this week on the podcast Unholy (always excellent, hosted by Yonit Levy of Israel’s Channel 12 and The Guardian columnist...

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James Inverne

US-Israel War on Iran: What Price for a Lasting Peace

The military campaign conducted by Israel and the United States against Iran—inaugurated in June 2025 and intensified in February 2026—constitutes...

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Mohamed Chtatou

Russia Is the Outskirts of Ukraine

Russia Is the Outskirts of Ukraine

Note: This article is a translation of my Russian-language piece «Россия — это окраина Украины» (“Russia Is the Outskirts...

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Ivan Bassov

Catholic-Jewish Relations in the Pope Leo Era

Cardinal Robert Prevost’s election as the first American pontiff last May was a welcome surprise, and one that I suggested at the time, bodes well...

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Noam e. marans

Beyond Sides Toward Shared Peace

Beyond Sides Toward Shared Peace

Public discussion about the Middle East is often reduced to a false choice. People are told they must either support Israel or support civilians in...

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Sabine Sterk

They Didn’t Control the Markets — They Explained Them

In 2009, the Anti-Defamation League found that 31 per cent of Europeans blamed Jews for the global financial crisis. They were blaming the wrong Jews...

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Vincent James Hooper

Brides of Contention: Forced Conversions in Pakistan

If you are a Hindu citizen of Pakistan and the parent of a girl, one of your greatest fears is that your daughter could be forcibly converted to Islam...

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Hasan mujtaba

The Slow Normalization of the Unthinkable

We are all busy living our lives—busy with our parenting, communal, and everyday obligations, absorbed by everything around us. So busy, perhaps,...

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Ariana Mizrahi

A Call to American Jews on a Path Forward: On Israel, Values, Pride and Responsibility

For most American Jews, support for Israel has never simply meant support for a government. It has meant support for the idea that there should exist...

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Marc Overbeck

The Greens: an Old Problem in New Language

The Greens: an Old Problem in New Language

There is a comforting myth in modern Britain that the worst things that can happen to Jews belong firmly in the past. That the Holocaust was a...

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Gill levy

The Holy Secret Inside ‘Six-Seven’

My son Shaya loves saying “Six-Seven.” He says it often, with full confidence, as if everyone in the room is supposed to understand exactly what...

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Yankie denburg

Applied Perek Shirah: Animal Chaplaincy and the Song of Creation

Applied Perek Shirah: Animal Chaplaincy and the Song of Creation

When King David completed the book of Psalms, he believed there could be no creature in the universe capable of praising God more deeply than a human...

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Mikhail Salita

Parshas Behar-Bechikosai: This Land is My Land

Our Parsha this week (which is double) sends us some very powerful warnings about this entire experience of building a Mishkan while living in the...

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Gedalia Walls

Standing Up for My Murdered Family

The photograph is the answer to every name Lithuania has called me. Image source: Papilė family photograph, July 27, 1927. I have spent decades...

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Last Straw

It’s Time to Dismantle the Apparatus Terrorizing American Jews The terrorizing of Jews attending a real estate discussion at New York City’s Park...

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Robert Greenberg

From Hostility to Coexistence

From Hostility to Coexistence

I have been active both here in Israel and internationally with both therapists and theorists who work with people suffering from trauma, specifically...

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Nancy Parish-Plass

The World Still Doesn’t Know How to Process Jewish Sovereignty

The World Still Doesn’t Know How to Process Jewish Sovereignty

One of the most important parts of the conversation is Mead’s argument that American sympathy toward Jewish restoration long predates modern...

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Tim Orr

Spiritual Fitness: Raising Jews Who Don’t Need Permission

Spiritual Fitness: Raising Jews Who Don’t Need Permission

A confident Jewish future begins when students become teachers. I once heard the Bostoner Rebbe speak to a group of college students. One student,...

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Feivel strauss

SCOTUS Ends Racial Gerrymandering

SCOTUS Ends Racial Gerrymandering

On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued a 6 to 3 decision that struck a powerful blow for electoral integrity. In...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Parashat Behar–Bechukotai

Parashat Behar–Bechukotai

When the Mountain Stays the Hand and the Laws Hold the World Without Our Understanding Them The mountain does not tremble. No one runs. There is no...

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Yosef B. Moran

First the Blood. Now the Mind.

Iran’s assault on Israel’s interior front This is the third piece in what has become, without my fully planning it, a series about a single...

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Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin

IBN: A Strategy to Resolve the Iran Conflict Through Regime Transition

The “Iran: Back to the Norm” (IBN) strategy can let the US and Israel (the Coalition) snatch victories from the jaws of mission unaccomplished in...

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Doc Ngu

The Power of Choice and Change

When I was a young woman, I could never have imagined becoming the woman I am today. There was a time when I lived with a deep sense of loneliness and...

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Hannah miryam bejarano gutierrez

Another Antisemitic Controversy in Ireland

Another Antisemitic Controversy in Ireland

What happens when one of Ireland’s greatest institutions—The Late Late Show (a popular chat show, on air since 1962), one of its most recognizable...

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Paul James Kearns

Behar: The Other CRT

Parshat Behar introduces Yovel, the Jubilee year. Every fifty years the shofar is sounded and we are commanded, “U’krasem dror ba’aretz l’chol...

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Jon Taub

The Mountain Doesn’t Blink. Neither Do We.

Last Thursday night, Beth Tzedec hosted a panel that gave urgent shape to questions this Shabbat’s Torah portion has been asking all along. Bruce...

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Steven C. Wernick

The Return: The 19th Century and the Remaking of America

By every measure the United States is experiencing a significant, deliberate return to its 19th-century cultural and political framework,...

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Steven Windmueller

Iran’s Aggressive Posture in the Gulf: Risks to Regional Peace and Global Trade

Iran’s Aggressive Posture in the Gulf: Risks to Regional Peace and Global Trade

The Gulf region has once again become the center of rising geopolitical tensions, as Iran’s increasingly aggressive actions toward Gulf states,...

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Mohamed abdi idiris

You Jew!

Antisemitism is on the rise. Jews all over the world are being attacked, both verbally and physically. What are you doing to solve this? You have for...

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Arie Simcha Halpern

Between the Siren and the Coffee Cup

Between the Siren and the Coffee Cup

Broken hearts and broken buildings, yet cafe culture in Tel Aviv is still booming. I’ve always admired Israelis’ tough skin, though stubborn at...

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Ellie stallman

From Yamit to Gaza & Israel’s Temptation of Dangerous Illusions

For decades, Israel traded land for promises, restraint for applause, and strategic depth for the fantasy of “quiet.” October 7 exposed the brutal...

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Victor Satya

1322.Ishtori HaParchi: Pioneer of the Scientific Geography of Israel

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL Ishtori HaParchi: Pioneer of the Scientific Geography of Israel Ishtori HaParchi transformed personal exile into...

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Shlomo Pereira

When Money Becomes Manhood (Behar-Behukotai)

Men are often taught to treat money as proof of manhood. Not just as a practical necessity. As evidence. Evidence that you are competent, desirable,...

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Noam raucher

Resist the Drift

One of the more interesting stories I read this week wasn’t about politics or AI or the Middle East or the latest social media outrage cycle. It was...

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Brad Goverman

The emperor has no clothes

The emperor has no clothes

‘The emperor has no clothes’ is an idiom describing a situation where a widely accepted, obvious truth is ignored or denied by a group due to...

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Arnon rubinstein

How Britain failed its Jews – twice over

How Britain failed its Jews – twice over

One of the only questions I have been asked by both Jew and gentile alike is how much of an impact I believe the left will have on Jewish life in...

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Simon Kupfer

The Woman Who Made Me – A Tribute to My Mother

To My Mother, On This Day Prepared by Rabbi Anchelle Perl A Mother’s Day Meditation to Read Aloud Mama — before I say anything else, let me say...

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Anchelle Perl

MK Meir Porush’s shame

This past Wednesday, Israeli member of Knesset Meir Porush felt it necessary to write a letter to the US ambassador, Mike Huckabee. In his letter,...

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Uri Hirsch

Treasure Trove: Chaim Weizmann, Part 4 of the Independence Day Series

Treasure Trove: Chaim Weizmann, Part 4 of the Independence Day Series

This is the fourth part of Treasure Trove’s celebration of Israel’s 78th Independence Day. On May 14, 1948 David Ben Gurion read Israel’s...

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David Matlow

Americans Living in Israel ~ 2026 Midterm Election

Americans Living in Israel ~ 2026 Midterm Election

Your vote might make a difference. Register today to make sure you can vote in your State’s Primary and the General Election on November 3, 2026....

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Andee Goldman

From Lab to Life: Unlearning Chronic Pain

Source: depositphotos.com Chronic pain affects one adult in five (20%) worldwide, or over 1.5 billion people, and is the leading cause of disability....

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Shlomo Maital

Devotion 21 — Sh’ma and Mercy

Listening Softens Judgment “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “Be kind and compassionate to one another,...

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Ed Gaskin

AMMWEC Joins Historic Coalition Urging Passage of the DETERRENT Act

AMMWEC Joins Historic Coalition Urging Passage of the DETERRENT Act

At a time when foreign influence operations are growing more sophisticated and more aggressive, the United States faces a simple but urgent question:...

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Junaid Qaiser

America’s Iran Deal, Israel’s Existential Risk

Why the apparent Trump–Netanyahu alignment on Iran may conceal a deeper strategic divergence. In my earlier essay, Ally or Instrument? Israel in the...

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Haim V. Levy

Australia’s Jews Must Speak Up

With the deadline for the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion extended to June 14, and hearings commencing this week, some are...

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Shane Shmuel

Ukraine, its Jews and the victory over Nazism that Russia is trying to steal

Ukraine, its Jews and the victory over Nazism that Russia is trying to steal

Ukraine paid an enormous price for the defeat of Nazism — including its Jewish population — yet Moscow keeps turning a multiethnic tragedy into a...

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Alexander lutsenko

Mental and Physical Health and the Divine Curses

One wonders about the terrible kelalot, the curses, in Parashat Bechukotai. Are they meant to be purely punishments for not observing the...

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Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Abdullah Ibn Salam Was Not the Only Jewish Supporter of Prophet Muhammad

Abdullah Ibn Salam was a Jewish supporter of Prophet Muhammad, and might even be mentioned in the Qur’an. “Say, “Have you considered: If the...

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Allen S. Maller

UNHYPHENATED: Waking Up to Antizionism

UNHYPHENATED: Waking Up to Antizionism

Spellcheck has not kept up with the times, it keeps putting the hyphen in antizionism. Before 1948, “anti-Zionism” was an idea Jews of different...

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Rachel Wahba

Spiritual Hunger (Behar–Bechukotai)

Spiritual Hunger (Behar–Bechukotai)

“The soul is not nourished by what it takes in, but by what it gives.” — Viktor Frankl Much has been written about nourishment in its most...

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Ben-Tzion Spitz