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Nassir Hussein Kahin

Nov 9, 2026, 2:26 AM

India’s 1971 Moment as Pakistan’s Alliances Put Somaliland in Focus

The western Indian Ocean maritime corridor connects Berbera, Bab al-Mandab and Mumbai amid expanding strategic competition involving India, Pakistan, Türkiye and Israel. Credit: HOASR Original Geopolitical Illustration.

From the 1971 confrontation with Pakistan to the strategic competition unfolding around Somaliland, India faces a changing maritime landscape in a region where its historical connections run deeper than modern diplomacy suggests. In 1971, India recognised Bangladesh without seeking Pakistan's...

Mirvat Abu Hadoba-Frieh

Nov 10, 2026, 3:02 PM

My Bedouin mother wears a niqab. She voted for a better future

Illustrative: Bedouin women wait to cast their votes at a polling station in the town of Rahat, Israel on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015 for parliament elections. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

She tended sheep in the Negev sun so I could get an education, but the sight of a veiled woman casting a ballot fills some Israelis with suspicion

Andrew Srulevitch

Nov 12, 2026, 2:26 PM

Three centuries of Jewish history, cancelled over Gaza

Tens of thousands of red-clad protesters march demanding their government do more to halt Israel's campaign in Gaza against Hamas, during a demonstration in The Hague, Netherlands, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

A Dutch museum has abandoned plans to celebrate its city's oldest synagogue, exposing Europe's increasing failure to stand up for Jewish communities

Nov 8, 2026, 3:15 PM

Israel hasn’t lost America – not even the Democrats

Michigan Democratic US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is the sole incoming anti-Zionist senator. (Photo: El-Sayed speaks at an election night event, November 4, 2026, in Detroit. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The loudest anti-Zionist voices are still a small minority. A post-Netanyahu government could find far more willing partners in Washington than Israelis expect

Nov 11, 2026, 9:43 AM

November 16: Three Carriers. Is Trump’s Final Ultimatum to Iran Approaching?

On November 9, The Maritime Executive reported that the USS Theodore Roosevelt, having left Singapore, could reach the northern Arabian Sea by November 16. The date is an estimate based on a possible 30-knot transit, not an official arrival....

Nov 5, 2026, 10:22 AM

An American rabbi’s letter to Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed

US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at the Michigan Democratic Party Endorsement Convention in Detroit on April 19, 2026. (Andrew Roth/Sipa USA via AP, via The Times of Israel)

Before you take office, please pick up the phone to Jewish communal leaders in Michigan, meet with them and come prepared to listen – really listen

Nov 10, 2026, 11:14 AM

As a Black mother of a Jewish son, I know solidarity is not simple

Martin Luther King, Jr. (center) and Abraham Joshua Heschel (2nd from front right), march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 21, 1965 (Wikimedia commons)

Our two communities don't have to agree on everything. We need to show up for one another – especially when our differences make that difficult

Stephen M. Flatow

Nov 10, 2026, 12:24 PM

Donald, Take It From Another Senior: Land the Plane

Mr. President, I confess to being a fan—up to a point. Sometimes that point arrives several minutes before the end of your answer. Your recent interview on "60 Minutes" drove home that fact. Before my very first television interview following...

Nov 10, 2026, 12:44 AM

The Tale of Two Ambassadors

December 1990. A young Jew in Moscow lights a menorah. Thousands of miles away in Brooklyn, the Rebbe is watching him on a screen, and for a moment, the Rebbe looks right at him. It was Chanukah Live, a satellite...

Nov 8, 2026, 12:13 AM

88 years after Kristallnacht, why are Jews still targeted?

When Philadelphians cyclists go after Jewish-owned businesses, they normalize anti-Jewish hostility, discarding the essential lessons of the 'Night of Broken Glass'

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