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Judaism is not an enemy of liberal values

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Mijael Even David

Iran Convulsed By Anti-Government Protests

yesterday 9

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Sheldon Kirshner

My Year Of Service In Merhavim Regional Council

yesterday 9

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Orna Raz

Return and Repair, North and South: The Long Road Ahead

yesterday 9

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Rebecca Bardach

Israel’s Somaliland Recognition: Confronting Turkey’s Neo-Ottoman Influence

yesterday 9

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Mohamed Marshall Omer

Persia

yesterday 8

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Elaine Rosenberg Miller

A strong Jewish community shapes resilient leaders

yesterday 8

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Jasmin Mojrenfeld Polite

How Fear Shapes Advocacy on Campus

yesterday 8

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Leah Preston

Washington threatens Tehran, the world listens

yesterday 7

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Gilles Touboul

In those days, and at that time, the Messiah is revealed

yesterday 7

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Abraham Mannil Thomas

Day of the undead

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Cary Nelson

Nuremberg, Oscars and Search for Humanity

Disclaimer:  I do believe that the newly released epic Nuremberg drama ( 2025) was well intended. We do need the films on the theme today and...

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Inna Rogatchi

When Democracies Look Away

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Gilles Touboul

Give Them Strength, Give Them Hope, Give Them Life

In the shadow of history, moments arise when nations are called upon to act—not for conquest, but for principle. Today, the United States faces such...

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Taha A. Lemkhir

Gaza City: Spring Collection

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Ryan Aviv Fagan

A Good Name — Sh’mot 5786

Last week, I was stopped on the street by a woman who smiled and said hello. I smiled back and said hello.  Then she said, “You don’t remember...

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David Lerner

Antisemitism, Demystified: It Starts with an Instinct

Antisemitism is often treated as a historical mystery or a uniquely irrational obsession. We explain it through theology, politics, economics,...

previous day 10

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Richard Diamond

The Stigma of the Masks

It is indisputable that major league mistakes were made by the governments of both Israel and the United States in dealing with the recent 2019 –...

previous day 10

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Kenneth Ryesky

The ‘Chinuch Horizons’ Podcast Series: Now Completing Its Third Successful Year

previous day 10

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Chaim Y. Botwinick

Sundown at Hostage Square – Folding up our Tents

Ran Gvili is not yet home. We do not have closure, yet our gathering place is closing up shop. We, the people of Hostages Square, are delighted...

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Nili Bresler

More Than a Rescue: How Entebbe Reshaped Jewish Identity

sunday 20

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Michael Feldstein

Is this the end of the Islamic regime in Iran?

What could be the consequences of such event on the region in general and on Israel in particular The fall of the Islamic regime in Iran, if and...

sunday 10

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Shaike Komornik

Pursuing Truth

I am really struggling with all the lies. Public figures, including especially politicians, say whatever suits their cause. They throw around...

sunday 10

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Peta Jones Pellach

The Danger of a Hardened Heart – Parashat Va’era

One of the most frightening phrases in the Torah appears again and again in Parashat Va’era : וַיֶּחֱזַק לֵב פַּרְעֹה וְלֹא שָׁמַע “Pharaoh’s heart...

sunday 10

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Jay M. Stein

Britain and Israel: Two democracies resisting the tug towards autocracy

Keir Starmer, prime minister of the United Kingdom, is a politician who respects the democratic tradition. He is the epitome of an old-fashioned...

sunday 10

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Harold Behr

While France’s Loire Frames Its Châteaux

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Motti Verses

‘Where There Is No One — Be the Person’ — A Lesson for Our Times

“Where There Is No One — Be the Person” — A Lesson for Our Times In Parshas Shemos, Moshe Rabbeinu witnesses an Egyptian striking a Hebrew...

sunday 10

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Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Stay with me

Stay with me. I need You to stay with me Forever Be with me Support me As I go Love me I need You to love me As I love You Stay with me Show me Be...

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Yoseph Janowski

Featured Post

Over the past year, Europe’s streets have been chock full of protesters. Hundreds of thousands have turned out in London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid,...

sunday 10

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Dov Maimon

Holocaust Monument Desecrator Treated Leniently

Last June, the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, was vandalized by Iain Aspenlieder, a middle-aged lawyer formerly employed...

sunday 10

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Sheldon Kirshner

The Thorn Bush: Emphathy Builds Leaders

Parshas Shemos opens with a difficult time for Klal Yisrael. After Yosef and his generation passed away, the Jewish people multiplied in Egypt, but...

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Eliezer Simcha Weiss

PTSD – on Steroids. A psychological epidemic after ‘October 7.’

Having observed and dealt with stress for over 30 years — as a combat soldier and officer in special units, and later as a combat psychologist in...

10.01.2026 3

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Rocky Abramson

The Light of Hanukkah in Tbilisi: Unity, Trust, and an Unexpected Honor

Being invited to the Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony in Tbilisi was already a great honor for me. The invitation came from Tsiuri...

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Mikheil Khachidze

Fabian UK out-Islams the Muslim Brotherhood

So, the United Arab Emirates has decided to protect its Muslim youth from radicalisation by discouraging them from studying at British...

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Bepi Pezzulli

Dinner with Eli and Batya – Thoughts on the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem

Every year, I spend time in Israel. This year, I am here as a film producer and writer for two documentary films and two books that will be based...

10.01.2026 2

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Geoffrey Clarfield

Tal-Sarah the ‘Tankistit’ and the Fighting Females of the IDF

Tal-Sarah, a young soldier in my PALMAR (combat medical extraction unit), is a symbol of bravery and determination, having made history as part of...

10.01.2026 30

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Tuvia Book

On rare earth, suicide drones, Artificial Intelligence, and the hawk Netanyahu

Thinking, that rare human activity, could come in handy sometime Disclaimer: I’m not saying to nitpick on terminology to make the working class...

10.01.2026 30

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Nazi Scandal in the German Army

Nazi Scandal in Germany’s Paratroopers: Defense Minister Pistorius Demands Sanctions and a Command Shake-Up An elite unit under fire — at the worst...

10.01.2026 20

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Francis Moritz

Dancing with chavismo

It does not happen often that you wake up on a Saturday morning in the new year of 2026, only to read that Caracas has been targeted by American...

10.01.2026 4

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Jonathan Shavit

The IRGC’s Exit Strategy: How the Regime Plans to Survive Its Own Collapse

When the Islamic Republic begins to crack, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will not simply watch the rubble fall. It will move –...

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Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Anti-Zionism and the Inverted World: Recasting Jews as Colonial Villains

What happens when theory collides with history, data, and lived Jewish experience—and loses. I used to be an anti-Zionist. I wasn’t militant about...

09.01.2026 30

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Kile Jones

Dressing the Torah

I sit in close proximity to the shulchan and yesterday I perceived an action which many times is on the sideline of Sabbat procedures. One man...

09.01.2026 8

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Rebecca Liebermann Nissel

Moses, Minneapolis, & Not Fearing the Truth

I feel like Moses this week. In Parshat Shemot, at seeing the strange bush on fire but not burning and then hearing and feeling the presence of...

09.01.2026 8

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Aaron Benson

No ‘Good’: Being Dan the Wrong Kaf

This past Sunday night NFL fans were treated to one of the wildest fourth quarters possible in a winner take all contest to end the regular season-...

09.01.2026 3

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Jon Taub

It’s Time to Talk About Palestinian Arab Violence

09.01.2026 1

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Craig Frank

Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland and Moral Clarity

At a time when Israel is increasingly judged not by its actions but by the narratives imposed upon it, Israel’s recognition of Somaliland offers...

09.01.2026 4

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Bruce D. Forman

When Refuge Turns into Reversal

The Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area is home to the largest Somali community in the United States—a genuine American success story rooted...

09.01.2026 7

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Mordechai Levin

The Revealing of the Messiah

2. The Babylonian captivity of the Southern Kingdom of Israel from BC 586 3. The scattering of Israel is in its completion, through the final...

09.01.2026 10

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Abraham Mannil Thomas

Why Many Jews Feel Emotionally Exhausted Right Now

A Jewish and Neuroscientific Perspective on Living in a Time of Moral Noise Many Jews I speak with lately say some version of the same thing: “I’m...

09.01.2026 5

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Bruce D. Forman

New Lines, Old Sand

Barely a week into the new year, another chaotic race for power is already underway in the Middle East and beyond. In a manner reminiscent of the...

09.01.2026 6

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Aurele Aaron Tobelem