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It could happen while you are on the phone or standing in the shower. You might be relaxing at home or busy at work. Suddenly your phone flashes with...
“Ending the war” is a slogan with several opposite meanings. How it is ended, and whether it ever truly ends, depends primarily on several choices...
World Jewry is besieged by a campaign of Islamist antisemitism designed to bolster the islamists’ “dream of a world without Jews.” Tactically,...
The following essay is a reflection, from the joint perspective of my daughter and I, on our combined 100 years of service in the Jewish community....
Let me guess—you just landed in Israel, still riding that aliyah high, and someone casually mentioned you need to visit “the Misrad Hapnim.”...
What does it look like when Jewish institutions actually lead together? At the Tucson JCC, it looks like synagogues bringing their congregations to...
“Antisemitism” is antiquated. Not the pathology or symptoms of Jew-hatred, but rather the word itself. This has become increasingly apparent as...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s lack of clarity regarding Canada’s position on the current war in Iran has drawn scathing criticism. Lloyd...
Who is Team República Dominicana? Team Dominican Republic entered the World Baseball Classic with one of the most star-studded rosters in the...
It’s hard to be an Israeli and an Arsenal fan these days. Them lot up the road are seen as the “Jewish” club, but there are many Jewish Arsenal...
Today the US Defense Secretary said that this will be the most intense day of strikes against Iran. He reiterated the goals of the US, to destroy...
In Parshat Vayakhel (Shmot 35:8), Moshe requests spices as a Teruma offering for the Mishkan (Tabernacle): …Spices for anointing oil, and for the...
From the women of the Golden Calf to Iran’s women’s soccer team, quiet acts of courage can move history I pray in two places every week: the...
Some wars allow for partial victories. This war does not. The conflict between Israel, the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran may appear...
It’s for employing air-power to destroy Iran’s military capabilities and potentialities to the greatest extent reasonably possible. Anything...
It is Better to Be a Warrior in a Garden – Than a Gardener in a War. For the past twelve days, I’ve lived in a war zone — in Israel. Rocket and...
Israel has not only emerged as a pioneering force in developing innovative medtech use cases, but the Startup Nation is also showing strength in...
Europe has long imagined itself a global strategic power with the agency to shape its own destiny. Yet the geopolitical landscape of recent years has...
The show reflects the strange breadth of the Israeli story itself.
For decades, American Jews rarely had to choose between their political convictions and their attachment to Israel. Support for Israel and commitment...
It was Monday June 23rd, the day before my due date, when I went into labor. Prior to this day were nearly two weeks of climbing up and down the...
source: Depositphotos.com “A kiss is still a kiss” is a line from the song “As Time Goes By,” from the 1942 film Casablanca. The lyrics...
Australia’s foreign policy language becomes noticeably sharper when directed at Israel and noticeably softer when the subject turns to Iran. When...
Britain once exported English common law to half the planet. Today, it is ready to import a Muslim blasphemy code. Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled a new...
Few books in Tanakh came as close to being suppressed as the book of Yechezkel. The Talmud records, in more than one place (Shabbat 13b; Menachot...
Exhaustion. Confusion. Stress. Fatigue. Here’s a short war reader for concerned friends not lucky enough to be in Israel right now. Exhaustion –...
On Shabbat morning, 28 February 2026, Israel and the United States launched airstrikes on Iran. The U.S. termed the mission “Epic Fury”, while...
The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s new Supreme Leader marks a dramatic change in the application of the revolutionary Velayat-e-faqih...
In the early hours of March 9, an explosion rocked the peaceful street outside a historic synagogue in Liège, Belgium. The blast shattered the...
Before cheap drones reshaped today’s battlefield, one crash in 2011 rewrote the rules of war. The Day the Sentinel Fell Some moments in history...
Most Israeli residents have unfortunately gotten used to the new reality, which includes nightly sirens, ever-changing schedules, travel...
It feels like the world jumped the shark in 2020. Before COVID, most of us carried a quiet assumption that the world was basically stable. Not...
From Proximity to Responsibility: Why Peace Requires Shared Life, Not Just Shared Borders This essay is part of the series “Before Reconstruction:...
In the 1930s, Winston Churchill was not in power. He observed Germany’s rearmament, denounced as early as 1934 the rise of the Luftwaffe, warned in...
There is a moment in life when you realise that the place you were born is not the place where your soul belongs. People today identify as all sorts...
After a dozen or so trips to the “safe room” in our apartment, the whole thing takes on a touch of unreality. Thank God, I have a desktop in the...
Israel Can Still Strike. It Can No Longer Promise Control. The most dangerous illusion in modern statecraft is not that war is tragic. Everyone knows...
As a result of ongoing conflict surrounding Israel, the concept of “Zionism” is constantly being defined and redefined to fit different agendas....
A mamad in Hebrew means safe room. It is called mamad because its an acronym for Merkav Mugan Dirati meaning an “apartment’s protected space”....
A message landed in my inbox recently from a contact whose grandfather had predicted that World War Three would begin in the Middle East. The...
So the Jews struck at their enemies with the sword, slaying and destroying; they wreaked their will upon their enemies…..in the fortress of Shushan,...
Reports that Beirut is again floating direct talks with Israel should be read not as progress but as a warning; the State of Israel has seen this...
The first year of marriage is supposed to be about adjustment: learning how someone else loads the dishwasher, discovering incompatible sleep...
The Chazon Ish wrote a book titled, “Emuna Ve’Bitachon.” It speaks of how one is able to acquire faith and trust in Hashem. He spends a great...
Who is Team Nicaragua? Team Nicaragua entered the World Baseball Classic as an underdog with a roster construction somewhat similar to Team...
Initially, Washington sought assistance from a well-known U.S. ally in the Middle East, the Kurds, to assist in the destabilization of the Iranian...
Before I begin, I want to state something clearly: gender dysphoria is real. There is scientific evidence that biological sex differences exist in the...
“For without victory, there is no survival.” -Winston Churchill, House of Commons (May 13, 1940) I was born less than two years after Israel. We...
I walked into my middle school classroom today prepared. As a Jewish educator, I have spent countless hours steeped in the research of teaching the...
In his 1969 novel “The Golem” (translated into English in 1982), Isaac Bashevis Singer brings to life another Golem story, the first of which...
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