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JD Vance Just Mainstreamed Tucker Carlson’s Narrative About Israel

JD Vance Just Mainstreamed Tucker Carlson’s Narrative About Israel

On July 15, Vice President JD Vance advanced a troubling narrative on the Joe Rogan Podcast echoed a rhetorical framework that has become closely...

yesterday 8

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Tim Orr

Coline Berry Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #337.1

Coline Berry Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #337.1

Coline Berry is a french psychoanalyst. She studied at the School of Advanced Studies in Psychopathology (EPHP), founded by Charles Melman and...

yesterday 9

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Alexandre Gilbert

Dear Israelis…

Dear Israelis…

Crying on the plane back to New York from Israel. Again. Not since the summer of 1992, when I was a teenager on ZOA’s Masada Leadership Training...

yesterday 7

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Logan Levkoff

EU Slams Pakistan’s Democracy in Latest GSP+ Review

EU Slams Pakistan’s Democracy in Latest GSP+ Review

The European Union’s latest assessment of Pakistan under the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP ) is more than a routine review of trade...

yesterday 10

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Michael Arizanti

Revisiting the Twenty-Fifth Knesset: Twenty Years Later

How two decades of subsequent events reshaped our understanding of an extraordinary parliament How two decades of subsequent events reshaped our...

yesterday 10

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Haim V. Levy

Jewish Democrat, 38, Seeking a Political Home

Jewish Democrat, 38, Seeking a Political Home

Must like complexity. No litmus tests. SEEKING: One functional democracy. Must like complexity. ABOUT ME: 38, Jewish, Democrat, Mainer. Believes in...

yesterday 10

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Ashley Inbar

There Is a Widening Gulf Within American Jewry

There is a widening gulf within the Jewish community as a gathering storm is forming on the horizon of our republic, one that threatens the future of...

yesterday 20

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Steve Wenick

The #Herzl100: 100 Herzl Artifacts in 100 Days

I own the world’s largest collection of Theodor Herzl memorabilia and this summer I am posting 100 Herzl artifacts from my collection in 100 days....

yesterday 20

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David Matlow

שבת חזון תשפ״ו: From the Bitter to the Sweet

If I asked you to choose an adjective that describes what Torah is, what would you say? I asked this very question to an eager group of 6th-grade...

yesterday 8

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Sam Arnold

How Ideas Become Identities: From Radical Chic to Jihad Chic

How Ideas Become Identities: From Radical Chic to Jihad Chic

Author’s Note: This essay has been brewing in my mind for months. It’s a little wonky, I’ll admit, but I hope it’s readable and maybe even...

yesterday 20

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Brad Goverman

Turkey’s Erdogan: A Highly Questionable Antisemite

TOI: Erdogan derides Israeli and Greek Concerns Recent reports and public statements have raised serious questions about the future of the U.S. Turkey...

yesterday 20

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Alex Rose

The Unchosen Gift: Reflections on Human Existence

It has been nearly eight decades since I first opened my eyes. I remember nothing of that moment, but I imagine the world was blurry, filled with...

yesterday 20

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Ben G. Yacobi

Emotional Appreciation

Rachel weeps. She cannot be consoled. Actually she refuses to be. The prophet Jeremiah says so about our Matriarch who must watch her children wander...

yesterday 20

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William Hamilton

A Right-Wing Divide on Iran and Israel

A Right-Wing Divide on Iran and Israel

The populist and the hawk split the New Right architecture over the deployment of American power against Iran and the radical left. A growing divide...

yesterday 20

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Raghu Kondori

Home Protection (Devarim)

Home Protection (Devarim)

“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest...

yesterday 20

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Ben-Tzion Spitz

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Improbable Journey

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the face of the Islamic Republic of Iran for eight years. As Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013, he brutally suppressed...

yesterday 20

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Sheldon Kirshner

Parashat Devarim

Parashat Devarim

The Words Before the Crossing There is a moment in Devarim when everything arrests without anything seeming to stop. No fire descends, no sea opens,...

yesterday 20

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Yosef B. Moran

Why the World Needs a Modern-Day Jeremiah

More than 2,600 years ago, Jews failed to heed the prophet Jeremiah’s warnings that they must change their ways. The result was the destruction of...

yesterday 20

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Richard H. Schwartz

Congratulations, Israel Is Still Yours

The greatest achievement of Israeli democracy may yet be persuading the lambs that moving Passover forward is a reform enacted entirely for their own...

yesterday 20

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Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Who Funds Britain’s Gaza Protests?

Who Funds Britain’s Gaza Protests?

A new report has renewed debate over the organization and financing of Britain’s pro-Palestinian movement, arguing that many of the country’s...

yesterday 30

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Saurav Dutt

The Jewish Governor Who Built Hong Kong’s Golden Mile

The Jewish Governor Who Built Hong Kong’s Golden Mile

Nathan Road is one of the most famous streets in Asia. Walk Nathan Road on any evening and you will find the whole world there. Mainland Chinese...

yesterday 20

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Steven Bernstein

Intelligence Per Dollar: The New Economics of Business

Intelligence Per Dollar: The New Economics of Business

When you plan your budget next year, you won’t plan around headcount anymore. You’ll plan around the intelligence each team needs. Every team lead...

yesterday 20

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Kovi Fine

Starting with Words – In Support of IWSTHAB

The words we choose to weave our narratives create our future. They emerge from our experiences and illuminate our sacred relationships. We speak the...

yesterday 10

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Lisa Gelber

The Truth About Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

Over the past week, an international campaign calling for the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from Israeli prison has gained renewed...

yesterday 20

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Hanan Amiur

Featured Post

Featured Post

Until this week, I had never heard of an influencer named Clavicular. Then he came to Israel, and Jewish social media erupted. Some were furious that...

yesterday 30

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Yankie Denburg

The Question My Mother’s Memory Asks of Me

Thirty-two years ago this week, on July 18, 1994, my mother was murdered in the terrorist bombing of the AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita...

yesterday 30

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Claudia Kreiman

Featured Post

There is a particular Jewish genius for scheduling the worst possible feedback session at the worst possible time, and then calling it mercy. This...

yesterday 30

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Talyah Ginsberg

The Dancer and the Algorithm: Sir Ken Robinson in the Age of Agentic AI

Sir Ken Robinson died on 21 August 2020, at 70, after a short battle with cancer. He never saw ChatGPT. He never encountered an autonomous AI agent...

yesterday 30

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Vincent James Hooper

The Middle East’s ‘Babushka Doll’ Syndrome: States within States

A “Babushka Doll” comprises several layers of ever smaller dolls nestled within each other. It turns out that some Middle East countries have a...

yesterday 30

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Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Israel Is Winning Wars, But Losing the World’s Mind

Israel Is Winning Wars, But Losing the World’s Mind

There is a painful reality that many supporters of Israel refuse to admit. Israel is exceptionally good at surviving wars. It is remarkably good at...

yesterday 30

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Sabine Sterk

The Tichel Trend and Redemptive Consciousness

The Tichel Trend and Redemptive Consciousness

As readers begin this article, they may think I am opening a can of worms. And indeed, while I love provocative and even polemical conversations, I...

yesterday 30

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Hannah Goldman

What Does the Barak–Epstein Connection Tell Us?

What Does the Barak–Epstein Connection Tell Us?

Intelligence Adjacency versus Espionage During his recent interview with Joe Rogan, Vice President JD Vance made a striking claim. Jeffrey Epstein, he...

yesterday 30

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William Keenan

The Mitzva To Live In Israel

The Alshich commented on Moshe Rabbeinu’s charge to the Jewish people of עלה רש, “Go up and inherit the land.” Some commentators wrote that...

yesterday 30

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Kenneth Cohen

Covenantal Protection

Parshat Devarim is always read before Tisha B’Av. That is no coincidence. The Book of Devarim is Moshe’s final address to the new generation...

yesterday 30

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Nitzan Bergman

Vance’s MOU does not advance American war aims

Vance’s misconceived MOU quickly failed, because it radically diverged from its purpose. There were three main objectives of the Iran war: 1 –...

yesterday 30

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Rony Blum

The Elephant on the Date and in the House

Boring Australian went on a strange tangent involving anarchy and South African apartheid as I sipped on my mezcal Negroni, making me realize there...

yesterday 20

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Jessica Ghitis

The Red-Green Axis!

The Red-Green Axis!

The Red-Green Axis: An Alliance That Begins With Israel but Will Not End There One of the most dangerous political alliances of our time is also one...

yesterday 30

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Mansoor H. Laghari

Tzedek: Justice and Compassion (Devarim, Covenant & Conversation)

Tzedek: Justice and Compassion (Devarim, Covenant & Conversation)

As Moses begins his great closing addresses to the next generation, he turns to a subject that dominates the last of the Mosaic books, namely justice:...

yesterday 30

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Jonathan Sacks

The Verdict America Never Issued

In The Kremlin Method, Practiced in Vilnius, I described a Lithuanian state institution that behaves less like a research body than an information-war...

yesterday 30

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Grant Arthur Gochin

Netanyahu slanders Israelis for Ro Khanna

When the Prime Minister and the IDF throw innocent Israelis under the bus in the ill-considered attempt to appease an open enemy, is it any wonder...

yesterday 30

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Reuven Bobby Weinmann

Building Community AND Connection

As the pandemic lockdown eased, we talked a lot about rebuilding community. We thought about how and when to bring people together, aware of the...

yesterday 30

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Betsy Stone

A Brooklyn Classroom, October 7, and Everything Between

A New York City Teacher’s Testimony I never imagined that one day I would be writing about antisemitism. For thirty-one years, I taught in the New...

yesterday 30

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Gwen Jones-Cintron

How an attorney turned entrepreneur is bringing AI receptionists to businesses

How an attorney turned entrepreneur is bringing AI receptionists to businesses

Israel has been writing a new chapter in the future of work story, and it isn’t just about skills or job titles. Increasingly, it’s about how...

yesterday 40

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Conrad Egusa

In conversation with rock legend John Illsley – My Life In Dire Straits

“We were lucky we weren’t teenagers – that would certainly have been fatal” writes Mark Knopfler in his forward to John Illsley’s...

yesterday 40

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Hannah Gal

All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and American Democracy

All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and American Democracy

For 250 years, American Jews have helped shape, challenge, and reimagine the nation’s democratic ideals. All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years...

yesterday 40

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Silas Anastacio

Iran Wants America’s Partners to Feel Abandoned. The US Must Prove Otherwise

Iran’s latest attacks across the Gulf and against Jordan are not random acts of retaliation. They reflect a deliberate political strategy: convince...

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Anne Dreazen

The Israelis Are Behind it All (Satire)

Those Israelis, they’re using their infinite money and power to try and influence our pure nation and use us to achieve their shadowy ends. Our...

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Gideon Levy

The Stories Men Tell About Their Lives (Devarim)

The Book of Deuteronomy begins with Moses telling a story. He stands at the edge of the Promised Land and looks backward. He remembers the leaders he...

previous day 30

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Noam Raucher

Stéphanie Roza Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #336

Stéphanie Roza Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #336

Stéphanie Roza, French historian of ideas, political philosopher, research fellow at the CNRS, specializing in the Enlightenment, the French...

previous day 20

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Alexandre Gilbert

A Sense of Where You Are

A Sense of Where You Are

I have wandered all across the globe playing basketball, but as I prepared for the 22nd Maccabiah Games, my family and friends were terrified. Not...

previous day 10

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Marc Skelton