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How to respond to the “genocide” accusation

Do you wish you could respond to accusations of “Israel committing genocide,” but feel stuck how to be productive? I want to help you. I’m going to...

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Rachel Lester

The Classroom is the Battlefield

We thought October 7th was the wake-up call. But the real wake-up call came a month later — in the hallways of American schools. Children who had...

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Linda Sadacka

Modern Monetary Mechanics (MMM): The Theory Behind the Noise

Modern Monetary Mechanics (MMM): The Theory Behind the Noise

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is an approach to understanding how modern governments manage money, spending, and deficits. It examines the mechanics...

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Ivan Bassov

Have Faith! Because… “God Said So”

I slept on the plane pretty well on the way home. That was a first! Part of me wanted to replay every moment and every site and every person that...

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Shayndel Plotkin

Holding Back

Recently, I responded innocently to a another Facebook comment about Haredim and service in the IDF, saying briefly that I disagree with his points...

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Jacob Lasson

Born as God Made Me: Embracing Intersex in God’s Design

Born as God Made Me: Embracing Intersex in God’s Design

A Biblical Call to Honor the Rare Few Without Redefining Gender When God spoke the world into being, He crafted humanity with a breathtaking design:...

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Yosef Eitan

Tucker Carlson and the Mainstreaming of Antisemitism

Tucker Carlson and the Mainstreaming of Antisemitism

In 2025, Tucker Carlson crossed a line that many argue transforms him from a provocative commentator into one of the most dangerous amplifiers of...

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Beth Kuhel

Publicize Public Relations

Israel is a world leader in medical research, scientific discovery, and water conservation, but trails in public relations of foreign policy....

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Lawrence A Frazin

The 8th Front: A Bold New Approach to Fighting Jew-Hatred

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Ori Freiman

Why Trump Cannot Make Peace if One Party Just Says NO!

When Donald Trump returned to the White House promising he could end the Russia-Ukraine war “in a single day,” many of his supporters believed him....

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Richard Diamond

Thinking of the outstanding Dutch Gentiles

Dedicated to Meyer Sluyser , who, after The War, wrote so many nostalgic books about Amsterdam’s Jewish life that was all but exterminated. Today,...

yesterday 7

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

How Two Jewish Rabbis Respected and Protected Islam’s Ka’bah to be

Before I can explain Ibn Kathir’s account of the two rabbis who protected the Ka’bah, I have to relate something about the Jews in Arabia in the...

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Allen S. Maller

How to Preserve Israel’s QME

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Joel M. Margolis

Vayishlach: The Roadmap

There are many steps as we work our way to becoming Tzaddikim. Step one is goal setting . Much like coming up with a concept for a business, our...

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David Lemmer

Canada’s “Anti-Racism” Narrative: A Mirror No One Wants to Look Into

Let’s begin with one real story from Ottawa — a story that exposes how hollow, selective, and politically manufactured “anti‑racism” rhetoric has...

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Shabnam Assadollahi

A Little Off The Top

A Little Off The Top

The Jerusalem Post recently published an article about a “barber-led” circumcision gone wrong. It’s a horrifying tale of how an untrained...

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Hayim Leiter

To pardon Netanyahu is to surrender Israel to Trump

There is a peculiar moment in the life of every democracy when the language of national healing begins to sound suspiciously more like the language...

yesterday 7

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Simon Kupfer

Featured Post

Featured Post

Saying Kaddish was different this time. There was the obvious: a quarter-century ago, I recited the Mourner’s Prayer for 11 months for my late...

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Ami Hordes

Featured Post

In recent years, an interesting trend has been taking shape in the world of tourism: many Israelis and Jews are flocking to Christmas markets...

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Sharon Pardo

Killing the Only Effective Tool Against Crime in Arab Society

The Israeli government is expected to decide this week on a move that may become one of the most damaging policy decisions in years: transferring...

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Amnon Beeri-Sulitzeanu

Dear President Herzog: My Case Against a Pardon for the PM

President Yitzhak Herzog has asked the people of Israel to weigh in on the unprecedented request from the Prime Minister to stop his trial Here is...

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Samuel Heilman

From Lab to Life: How Our Brains Change Over the Life Cycle

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Shlomo Maital

“Shortcut”  Vayishlach 5786

Darkness falls on a fleeing Jacob and he stops for the night. The Torah [Bereishit 28:11] tells us that he “encountered the place and stopped for...

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Ari Sacher

A World of Fortresses: Global Fear, Broken Narratives

A World of Fortresses: Global Fear, Broken Narratives

Forgive me if I sound cynical. It feels as though the world around us is coming apart. Violent anti-Israel marches continue to sweep across Europe,...

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Jeffrey Levine

The Rape of Dinah and the Seeds of Redemption

One of the most tragic and perplexing stories in the entire Tanach takes place in Parshas Vayishlach, Genesis 34, with the abduction and rape of...

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Doron Lazarus

The Master Plan of Genocide Accusations

Genocide is back in the news. At a joint White House press conference (November 21, 2025), New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, in answer to a...

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David S. Levine

The Moment of Terrible Freedom: When Nothing is Left to Cling To

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Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Tennessee execution highlights death penalty’s depravity

The litigation — especially U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson’s cynical and macabre opinion published November 26 — concerning Harold Nichols’s...

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Stephen A. Cooper

Capital market solutions for Gaza’s recovery

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Glenn Yago

When Silence Is Louder Than Words

When Silence Is Louder Than Words

This Shabbat, Jews around the world will read parshat Vayishlach, recounting the tragic story of Dina’s kidnapping and rape by the local...

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Shana Aaronson

Why Won’t Bibi “Man Up” Like Golda Did? And Now Wants A Pardon!!

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Richard Diamond

A Rabbi’s failed attempt to clean up Holocaust distortion

A Rabbi’s failed attempt to clean up Holocaust distortion

On November 20, Thomas Rose, the U.S. ambassador to Poland, delivered a speech in Warsaw in which he categorized as a “historic injustice” and “...

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Menachem Rosensaft

Closing Down a Wine Bar in the Negev: ‘We only have 30 Minutes’

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Chris Prejean

The Hypocrisy, Idiocy, and Audacity of Hope

There comes a moment when a political party doesn’t merely stumble — it collapses under the weight of its own hypocrisy. Such was the case for the...

tuesday 10

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Abe Gurko

How Israel is Leading the Charge Against SaaS Sprawl

In the 3rd decade of the 21 st century, global business has largely been defined by digital transformation, but amid the recent deluge of...

tuesday 10

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Alon Ghelber

Inclusion is Not the Problem – It’s the Answer

Inclusion is Not the Problem – It’s the Answer

This week, as we mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Wednesday, December 3, we are asked to look honestly in the mirror that...

tuesday 9

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Liat Ellert

Dear Students: We Failed You On Technology

Dear Students, Plato once warned that writing would break the minds of learners. He believed that if people relied on text instead of memory, they...

tuesday 10

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Tzvi Hametz

From Fear of Robots to Shared Abundance

For the first time, we are building systems that can outperform us in tasks we once thought defined human intelligence. And beneath the excitement...

tuesday 9

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Sharon Gal Or

Syria: The Battlefield Between Intentions and Interests

Syria: The Battlefield Between Intentions and Interests — Who Has Won, and Who Will Rule After the Collapse of the Shiite Axis? The campaign in...

tuesday 10

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Yair Marton

Planting Trees: Why Jewish Identity Is the Key to Our Future

Over the last year, I chaired the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver’s Antisemitism Task Force. Over that period, we heard and reviewed truly...

tuesday 8

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Reut Amit

From Amen to Amen

From Amen to Amen

School districts around the country from New York State to Texas have instituted cell phone bands. In fact, through 2025, some 37 states have...

tuesday 10

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Karen Reiss Medwed

Magen David, our Star, Our Shield

Magen David, our Star, Our Shield

In today’s climate of animosity directed towards the State of Israel and, by inevitable extension, the Jewish people, a simple six-pointed star is...

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David H. Spalter

Shared Scars: Jewish Diaspora & Slave Trade

Shared Scars: Jewish Diaspora & Slave Trade

(This is Article 6 of the seven-part series, “Bridges of Liberation: Jewish & African Paths to Freedom.” The full disclaimer regarding the author’s...

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Grant Arthur Gochin

The Rabbi’s Candle – A Light in the Darkness

There are moments in Jewish history when the world is cloaked in such darkness that a single act of faith becomes a revolution. One candle.One...

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Avi Schwartz

Gaza Strategy: Post-name Metrics – 5

Part Five: Hamas is not solely a local organisation. Its operational choices, media posture, and financial continuity reflect inputs from states...

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Ab Boskany

Es gleybt zikh — Belief from Within

There are moments when history obliges us to reconsider the words we think we understand: I believe, we believe, credimus, pisteuomen, veruyem....

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Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel

Calling Bibi’s Bluff, for the Sake of the Country

Israel is intensively debating Prime Minister Netanyahu’s request for a Presidential pardon. I agree completely with the critics of this...

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Sheldon Schreter

The Hidden Reason Chanukah Matters More Than Ever

What makes Chanukah so important to us today?  We know the story – a single jar of oil, enough for just one day, burned for eight. Yet what made...

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Sharon Jason

Securing Democracy in the Post‑Labor Age

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William Keenan

The Epstein Files: A Test of Conscience for the US, Israel, and Beyond

The Epstein Files: A Test of Conscience for the US, Israel, and Beyond

“You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby” was Virginia Slims’ slogan during the Women’s Liberation era, marketed as a symbol of women’s progress....

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Penny S. Tee