|
The Times of Israel (Blogs) |
On July 15, Vice President JD Vance advanced a troubling narrative on the Joe Rogan Podcast echoed a rhetorical framework that has become closely...
Coline Berry is a french psychoanalyst. She studied at the School of Advanced Studies in Psychopathology (EPHP), founded by Charles Melman and...
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...
The European Union’s latest assessment of Pakistan under the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP ) is more than a routine review of trade...
How two decades of subsequent events reshaped our understanding of an extraordinary parliament How two decades of subsequent events reshaped our...
Must like complexity. No litmus tests. SEEKING: One functional democracy. Must like complexity. ABOUT ME: 38, Jewish, Democrat, Mainer. Believes in...
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...
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....
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...
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...
TOI: Erdogan derides Israeli and Greek Concerns Recent reports and public statements have raised serious questions about the future of the U.S. Turkey...
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...
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...
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...
“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest...
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...
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,...
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...
The greatest achievement of Israeli democracy may yet be persuading the lambs that moving Passover forward is a reform enacted entirely for their own...
A new report has renewed debate over the organization and financing of Britain’s pro-Palestinian movement, arguing that many of the country’s...
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...
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...
The words we choose to weave our narratives create our future. They emerge from our experiences and illuminate our sacred relationships. We speak the...
Over the past week, an international campaign calling for the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from Israeli prison has gained renewed...
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...
Thirty-two years ago this week, on July 18, 1994, my mother was murdered in the terrorist bombing of the AMIA (Asociación Mutual Israelita...
There is a particular Jewish genius for scheduling the worst possible feedback session at the worst possible time, and then calling it mercy. This...
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...
A “Babushka Doll” comprises several layers of ever smaller dolls nestled within each other. It turns out that some Middle East countries have a...
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...
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...
Intelligence Adjacency versus Espionage During his recent interview with Joe Rogan, Vice President JD Vance made a striking claim. Jeffrey Epstein, he...
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...
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...
Vance’s misconceived MOU quickly failed, because it radically diverged from its purpose. There were three main objectives of the Iran war: 1 –...
Boring Australian went on a strange tangent involving anarchy and South African apartheid as I sipped on my mezcal Negroni, making me realize there...
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...
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:...
In The Kremlin Method, Practiced in Vilnius, I described a Lithuanian state institution that behaves less like a research body than an information-war...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“We were lucky we weren’t teenagers – that would certainly have been fatal” writes Mark Knopfler in his forward to John Illsley’s...
For 250 years, American Jews have helped shape, challenge, and reimagine the nation’s democratic ideals. All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years...
Iran’s latest attacks across the Gulf and against Jordan are not random acts of retaliation. They reflect a deliberate political strategy: convince...
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...
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...
Stéphanie Roza, French historian of ideas, political philosopher, research fellow at the CNRS, specializing in the Enlightenment, the French...
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...