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When Service Does Not End and Listening Comes Too Late

  Today, under the open sky at the funeral of Josh Boone z”l, I stood among those who came to honor a man who gave so much of himself to Israel....

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Stuart Katz

A Listening Heart: Guarding the Jewish Future

A Listening Heart: Guarding the Jewish Future

In the wake of October 7, 2023, the Jewish world finds itself caught in a global “mishearing” of staggering proportions. Across the streets of...

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Andy Blumenthal

Vayechi — The Friday Evening of History

Although this week we read Parsha Vayera, I would like to share a thought connected to Vayechi. Because Vayechi is not a parsha about a week — it is...

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Mikhail Salita

The Language Classroom: Institutional Failure and Individual Courage

In the world of language education, we talk endlessly about cultural competence, building bridges, and social justice. These beautiful concepts...

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Orly Lavi Travish

No Communion for Candace Owens

In the digital age, the reach of a microphone can extend further than the acoustics of any cathedral. But for a public figure who professes a...

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David Nekrutman

There Are None So Blind as Those Who Do Not Wish to See

There Are None So Blind as Those Who Do Not Wish to See — A Message from Parshat Bo It is a hard truth, but one that is often ignored: there is...

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Eliezer Simcha Weiss

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #204, Crystal Haggadah, 15

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #204, Crystal Haggadah, 15

In this episode tempers rise at Kibbutz Teruah’s seder. Aton keeps trying to interrupt but many ‘shush’s’ restrain his zeal. But finally his...

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Stephen Berer

John Marston, A Surprisingly Jewish Story

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Matthew Robin

After Recognition, the Horn of Africa Enters a Decisive Phase

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland closed a long-running diplomatic debate but opened a more consequential question: what follows recognition in a...

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Nolawi Engdayehu

The Story Guns tell about Israel and America

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Mark P Cohen

From Sacrifice to Prayer: Why Judaism Must Civilize Prayer

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Richard Diamond

Trump Backed Down From Threats To Strike Iran

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Sheldon Kirshner

On Modernity and Irresponsibility

The dissonance between campus protests against Israel and the academic silence surrounding the killing of protesters in Iran exposes a sharp—and...

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Ofer Idels

When 110,000 Iranians Speak in Toronto, the World Should Listen

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Alan Bostakian

Israel – Africa: The Israeli Method

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Marc Levy

Christian Zionism is a Bridge, Not a Barrier

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David Nekrutman

A Seat at the Table: Pakistan and President Trump’s Board of Peace

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Junaid Qaiser

From Lab to Life: Did Life Begin with HCN?

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Shlomo Maital

Memory, Transmission, and a Shared Jewish Future – Parashat Bo

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Jay M. Stein

When Holocaust Remembrance Becomes Suspect

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Sagit Alkobi Fishman

The Media’s Blind Spot: Iran’s Killing Fields

Selective Outrage: Why Iran’s Dead Don’t Matter to the Media In the span of two weeks, an estimated 12,000 Iranian citizens were killed amid...

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Sabine Sterk

When Words Had Weight: Remembering the Age of the Typewriter

Last week, while rummaging through some old papers, I came across a document I had typed more than forty years ago. It was on onion-skin paper,...

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Michael Feldstein

From JD Vance to Rubio: ‘Trumproe’ Changed Power

From JD Vance to Rubio: ‘Trumproe’ Changed Power

JD Vance was the GOP’s signal flare — the up-from-nowhere firebrand poised to be the next president, the man who channeled MAGA’s angry base and...

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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Is AI Good for the Jews?

I began this blog in the weeks after October 7 to think in public about Jewish life, our safety, memory, identity, and politics. I posted unevenly,...

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Craig Frank

Coming Reckoning for Uncle Sam: Why America’s Next Debt Crisis Will Be Different

In July 2025, Congress narrowly avoided catastrophe by raising the debt ceiling to $41.1 trillion through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The...

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Vincent James Hooper

Treasure Trove: A Century of Israeli Beer – Mi’Brador l’Dor

100 years ago, the Rosenberg Brothers were brewing “Max Brau” Palestinian beer in Acre.  This advertisement appeared in a 1926 edition of...

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David Matlow

Fearing Islamism Is No Phobia

Fearing Islamism Is No Phobia

In April 1979, my professor, a bright, beautiful woman, came into the classroom with “exciting news!” It was official, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...

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Rachel Wahba

“Sorry, Mr. Chomsky, I No Longer Agree”: My Journey Out of Anti-Zionism

I was once an anti-Zionist. My political views were shaped by leftist academics during my time doing graduate work at Boston University. I had...

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Kile Jones

The Fragile Gift of Free Will by Menachem Mirski

I first met Menachem Mirski when I and my wife Judy went to Poland in the fall of 2010 to help in a Jewish revival. Mirski was not a Rabbi then. He...

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Allen S. Maller

Martin Luther King Day Is a Call, Not a Pause, for Maryland’s Youth

My dogs pulled forward toward the Howard Street Dog Park as we passed First and Franklin Presbyterian Church. Outside hung purple ribbons, each...

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Stephen Stern

Wrecking the Country from the Inside

What’s more dangerous for a country’s future: external attack or internal revolution? As a political scientist, I am not aware of any scholar who...

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Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Yajuj-Majuj vs. Hope, Prayer and Faith

Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a small fraction standing by the end of the century unless global...

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Allen S. Maller

From Mouth to God’s ‘Ears’

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Rivka Herzfeld

Purpose, Meaning, and the AI Disruption

As artificial intelligence threatens to displace vast numbers of jobs, most public discussion centers on economic remedies: retraining programs,...

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Mark Frankel

‘Hakarat Hatov’ and Entitlement

Parshat Va’era gives a description of the first seven of the Ten Plagues. There is a subtle but important message within this description. We learn...

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Kenneth Cohen

It is time to take responsibility for our image rather than blame everybody else

Last Friday, when I read Ben-Dror Yemini’s article in Yedioth Ahronoth, “The Covenant of the Bullies,” I felt a sense of déjà vu. He has been...

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Nadav Tamir

AI Is Reshaping Academia — and Forcing a Rethink of the University Mode

Image:78 years since the first transistor was developed at Bell Labs — a breakthrough that laid the foundation for modern computing and AI. Photo...

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Rafi Glick

Featured Post

Featured Post

This morning, like every morning for the past two weeks, the first thing I did upon waking was search for news of Iran. Have the protests...

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Mijal Bitton

How Torah Teaches Us to Kill an Impulse

There is a moment in Red Dead Redemption 2 that is easy to miss and difficult to forget. John Marston is trying — awkwardly, imperfectly — to live...

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Matthew Robin

Is Halting Executions in Iran Good Enough?

On January 16, 1979, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was forced to flee Iran along with his family due to the US and European countries withdrawing...

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Jonathan Feldstein

I Am Who I Am and the Reflectivity of Prayer

The telos of tefillah, the Hebrew word for prayer, is not to be reflective about one’s heart’s software. It’s willingness to be subjected to...

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Gershon Hepner

The best day ever

The Best Day Ever By Eden Gabay   You know these days when nothing goes right? When waking up is already a fight? Your shower is cold, you can’t...

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Ariel Galian

‘Protective Parent as Alienator

In recent years, the concept of parental alienation (PA) has become one of the most contested issues in family law and child psychology. Few...

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Monique Dietvorst

‘Thy Neighbor’s Blood’: Alarming Assault Weapons

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined;” – First Annual Address to Congress, George Washington (January 8, 1790) Every time I...

15.01.2026 7

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Why Middle Eastern States Oppose US Military Intervention in Iran

In early 2026, the strategic landscape of the Middle East is shaped by a striking convergence: while many regional governments remain deeply...

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William Keenan

‘In the Beginning’/Tzedeck

‘In the Beginning’/Tzedeck

B”H 1/15/2026 26 Tevet 5786 Reynah and the Golem Chapter One “Can I stay here forever?” She thought as she gazed into his beautiful light hazel...

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Hadassah Chavivah Zeltzer

United We Stand – Divided We Fail (Again)

The Urgent Need for Opposition Unity in Israel Israel’s opposition faces a moment of truth: unite or lose – again. As the next election approaches,...

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Alan P. Gross

From Budapest to Tehran: When the United States Encourages Revolt—and Walks Away

When Iranians flooded the streets chanting “Woman, Life, Freedom,” many believed the Islamic Republic was facing its most serious challenge since...

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Yehuda Lukacs

From Cyrus to the Future: Can Iran and Israel Rekindle an Ancient Bond?

“I think there are only two countries on this planet that can claim to have a biblical relationship: Iran and Israel. This goes back 25 centuries....

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Ralph Buntyn

Donald Trump, Terrorism and Trauma

As an American citizen I am terrified to be in the United States right now. There I said it. Everyone can read my words. I don’t have to keep it a...

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Vicki Polin