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Jun 29, 2026, 1:05 PM

The billions of shekels languishing in Palestinian bank vaults

Idle shekel notes amassed in a Ramallah bank vault (Courtesy)

Israel's decision to tighten restrictions on the return of its own currency has turned a chronic problem into a security threat

Menachem Lehrfield

Jul 1, 2026, 9:34 PM

As a Jewish Coloradan, I’m afraid

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How many heard now-congressional nominee Melat Kiros claim that the horrors of October 7 were just resistance and voted for her because of it?

Jaclyn S. Clark

Jun 29, 2026, 3:04 PM

Scott Wiener gave the mob everything. It wasn’t enough

The California state senator who toed the progressive line at the expense of his own liberal Jewish and Zionist beliefs is being villainized as a puppet of Israel

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jan 2, 2026, 10:19 PM

Africa Must Fragment, South Africa First

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History has already delivered its verdict: large, coerced multi-ethnic states inevitably fail, while smaller sovereign nations endure and prosper. Yugoslavia's collapse stemmed from centralized power that suppressed national self-rule, enforcing coercion among its peoples. Its dissolution ended that forced...

Paul Mendlowitz

Jul 1, 2026, 8:33 PM

America at 250: The Founders could not imagine the tragedy of Donald Trump

President Donald Trump holds an artist rendering of interior of the new White House ballroom, in the Oval Office of the White House, Oct. 22, 2025 (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The danger is bigger than one president: it is a culture that prizes personal loyalty over constitutional government

Stephen M. Flatow

Jul 1, 2026, 2:22 PM

When Americans fund terrorism

A joint Hamas-Palestinian Islamic Jihad demonstration (source https://farsi.palinfo.com/Uploads/Models/Media/Images/2017/11/18/397972304.jpg?h=500&w=947&crop=auto&scale=both&quality=80&404=default&format=jpg)

The terror group that murdered my daughter in 1995, has had no difficulty finding US citizens to fill its coffers

Jul 3, 2026, 12:23 PM

Shabbat Returns to the US Supreme Court

Three days before the Republic marks its 250th birthday, the United States Supreme Court agreed to answer a question that would have troubled the sleep of American Jews as far back as colonial Newport and Charleston: whether a government...

Jul 3, 2026, 12:23 PM

Israel, Palestine, and Canaan: Myth, Archaeology, History, and Geopolitics

Who Belongs to the Levant? Why the Question Resists a Single Answer The competing claims to the Levant are routinely framed as a binary historical contest: one people was here first, therefore the land belongs to them. That framing is...

Jul 3, 2026, 3:03 PM

‘To bigotry no sanction’: At 250, America has defied the history of Jewish exile

Close up of Statue the Liberty, New York City (iStock)

The US is no guarantee against hate, but it also isn't a manifestation of the latest oppressive empire. America’s DNA is simply diﬀerent

Hannah Rosenthal

Jun 30, 2026, 1:17 PM

The US is about to sabotage its own fight against antisemitism

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, shown with President Donald Trump during an October 7 remembrance event in 2024, was confirmed by the US Senate as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism on December 18, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The Trump administration's plan to merge its Holocaust envoy and antisemitism envoy offices risks failing both survivors and Jewish communities worldwide

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