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In the letter to the editor “Mamdani is correct about Netanyahu” (8/1/26), Ray Gordon claims Israel is committing genocide against the Gazans....
Tonight, your synagogue is co-sponsoring a fundraiser for the legal defense of Mohsen Mahdawi. I read that sentence. Then I read it again. And I still...
A commemorative drawing handed to me by one of my grandfather’s most devoted defenders placed him in command of the 1941 uprising in western...
While Trump vacillates between total war and détente with Iran, Turkey has moved quickly to fill the regional vacuum. Last week, Hakan Fidan...
So much for the repeated assurance that “Iran will never get a nuclear bomb.” IRGC Commander-in-Chief Ahmad Vahidi has now declared that because...
Last week, we went to Toronto to watch our son play baseball. He was part of Baltimore’s 17U team competing at the JCC Maccabi Games. This wasn’t...
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz deserves to be remembered as more than a founder. He was a man of vision, impatience, and moral clarity. He understood...
There are moments when a Jewish life doesn’t simply bend — it breaks. It breaks in a way that rearranges your breathing. I learned this the night...
History rarely tells us when a new era begins. We usually recognize it only after the rules have changed. I believe we are living through one of those...
Solar and renewable energy in Israel has lagged behind other developed nations, as only 16% of electricity came from renewable sources, with the...
Attacks across Badakhshan are puncturing the Taliban’s aura of invincibility, even if the armed resistance remains far from threatening its rule...
Ireland’s rise from a poor Western European economy in the 1970s to a wealthy, export-oriented one is often associated with the “Celtic Tiger.”...
Hamas: The Engineering of Martyrdom When Hamas is discussed, the conversation is often reduced to two opposing caricatures. To some, it is nothing...
The Moral Majority and the Rise of the Christian Right In June 1979, Jerry Falwell and conservative political organizers founded the Moral Majority....
The dismissal last month of the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, for “serious misconduct and a serious breach of...
If each of us were to conduct a quick survey on an Israeli street and ask, “Have you ever heard of AIPAC?” the results would likely be...
Jonathan Tobin, the editor of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate), posted an article over the weekend entitled, “The Michigan Primary and the...
We are constantly being told that the IDF is short of tens of thousands of soldiers. The proposed solutions are familiar: recruit more ultra-Orthodox...
In the days following the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in southern Israel, in which over 1200 unarmed civilians were killed and 251 others taken...
“The whole world is against us / No matter, we’ll overcome / They don’t care about us at all / No matter, we’ll manage.” These are the...
JTA — Losing our daughter Malki felt like a horror movie unfolding in real time. August 9, 2001, was a school vacation morning in Jerusalem. I left...
When arsonists torched four ambulances belonging to the Jewish emergency service Hatzola in London’s Golders Green on March 23, 2026, the initial...
God, Trump, and a Soccer Referee in the Battle Over the Rules of the Game The Oven of Akhnai is not really a story about an oven. The proof is simple:...
Unravelling the Creation of God Through Biomimicry There is something wonderfully humbling about Velcro. In 1941, Swiss engineer George de Mestral...
The great poet and philosopher Judah Halevi (1075-1141) lived at the height of Jewish powerlessness, eight centuries before the establishment of the...
Raphael Lemkin, a long-dead Polish Jew who never set foot in Armenia, is nonetheless regarded there as a champion of justice who exposed the...
Wan-I Yang is a Taiwanese professor at the Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University. III. SOLITUDE AND THE OTHER The transformation of...
There is something deeply contradictory about one of the most popular accusations directed at Israel today. Jews are increasingly described as...
The strangest thing about The Guardian’s news-review piece about Boy George’s pro-Jewish song is not its politics but its panic — the sheer...
At the United Nations in September 2024, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi made Israel an extraordinary offer. Speaking after Prime Minister...
Barely hours after Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye signed their new mutual defence agreement in Mecca, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif...
Whenever Madrid and Jerusalem quarrel — which under Pedro Sánchez is most weeks — a familiar chorus starts up. Spain, it explains, has been the...
The Definition of a “Normal Country” and the Ghost of King Faisal In a rare, paradigm-shattering engagement with the Israeli media via The Times...
The Jewish Museum of Vienna is one of the world’s most significant institutions dedicated to preserving and presenting Jewish history and culture....
Character is rarely tested in the moments we prepare for. It is not proven only in the grand public causes we argue about—justice, war, peace, or...
The traditional Hebrew text of the Bible states that 70 members of Prophet Jacob’s family went down to Egypt (Genesis 46:27, Exodus 1:5). The...
One hundred years ago, Jewish philosopher Martin Buber published “Education” in the inaugural issue of Die Kreatur. He edited the quarterly with...
I am a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, barely survivors. Survivors who stepped out of the camps into a world emptied of everyone they had ever...
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off. There’s an old Gershwin song that goes: “You like potato and I like po-tah-to. You like tomato and I like...
Five days ago, Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in Michigan after an extraordinarily close primary. He was...
When we look at a name, we usually stop at its meaning and go no further, rarely asking where it came from. I prefer the opposite, tracing a name back...
Ceuta: When Spain Is Caught Up by History Colonial Spain, Israël, Palestine : the language of occupation The spectacular migrant influx that has...
There is something almost too perfect about Jews for Jesus. It offers Christians the Jew they have always wanted: recognizably Jewish, reassuringly...
The other day I was at the supermarket making small talk with the cashier. I did the perfectly Canadian thing and talked about the weather, but Sharon...
Seven months ago my son Yeshaya had a bar mitzvah. Everything went right, besides everything that didn’t. It was an incredible bar mitzvah weekend...
Telling myself, ask answerable questions. Unanswerable questions deter progress. WhatsApping with Mohammed, last week, I asked questions and withheld...
Lithuania names its rescuers. It anonymizes its murderers. Thirteen years ago this week, a man died in Sutton, Massachusetts. Vladas Zajanckauskas was...
The Strait of Hormuz, which for years had remained a serious threat in the hands of the Islamic Republic, has been transformed by the United States...
Inspired by the social media noise, nonsense, and clickbait of the weirdly queer antizionist Jew-hate movement and my doomscrolling feed alternating...
My first official duty as Israel’s ambassador-designate became an encounter between memory and diplomacy In Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Museum, I...
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