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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel pauses during an interview with The Associated Press, November 21, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Mijal Bitton

To Michigan AG Nessel and liberal Jews everywhere: Jewish survival isn’t immoral

While right and left disagree about what a value even is, let alone which of them are important, we Jews remember our timeless Jewish covenant (Nitzavim)

Gloria Steinem at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 7, 2016 (CC, Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia Commons)

Daphne Lazar Price

What Gloria Steinem taught this Orthodox feminist

Her questions about power, equality and who gets a voice gave me a way to challenge observant Judaism from within — without asking me to abandon it

In this handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas votes during the elections for the new central committee of the Fatah movement during their Eighth General Conference in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank on May 16, 2026. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP)

A new Palestinian politics could change Israel too

Choosing democracy, nonviolence and two states could show skeptical Israelis that there is indeed a partner for peace

Shayna Goldberg

When we forget, God remembers

This Rosh Hashana, I’m grateful that He remembers the father I remember. The strong, wise one I could turn to with any question, before Alzheimer’s began taking him from us

(enlabs via iStock)

Paula Slier

In Israel’s AI election, who decides what is true?

Forget the spectacular deepfake. AI’s most dangerous feature is the way it packages reality for voters

Left: Sara Netanyahu in a Channel 14 interview broadcast on August 31, 2026. Right: Yair Golan, October 14, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 14; Kan TV screenshot)

Gil Mildar

When the PM’s wife accuses a hero

Sara Netanyahu not only attacks her husband’s opposition, she also answers questions in his name. It’s time she answered to the Israeli people

Image: ChatGPT

Judy Halper

You’re soldiers. She’s a paramedic. Get in the APC

The refusal to share space with a woman exposes a widening clash over religion, equality and the Israel we want to be

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Sep 4, 2026, 6:14 PM

The Power of the Silent Blast

When the first day of Rosh Hashanah coincides with Shabbat, one of the most defining rituals of the Jewish calendar undergoes a radical shift: the shofar is not sounded. The central, visceral alarm of the day—the raw, piercing cry...

Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Sep 4, 2026, 6:14 PM

Cry Me A River: Tashlich’s Aqua Vitae

"Ol' man river, dat ol' man river, He must know sumpin', but don't say nothin'. He jus' keep rollin', He jus'keep rollin' along." - "Ol' Man River" Showboat, Oscar Hammerstein II (1927) "I can wait, Doctor. The river saved me, you...

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Sep 4, 2026, 6:10 PM

Bring them with you

Every seven years, the Torah commands the entire Jewish people to gather in Yerushalayim for Hakhel: “Gather the people—the men, the women and the small children.” הַקְהֵל אֶת הָעָם, הָאֲנָשִׁים וְהַנָּשִׁים וְהַטַּף (Devarim 31:12) The Gemara asks why everyone came. The men came...

Sep 4, 2026, 6:06 PM

The Tongue and the Law: Honour, Justice, and Peace in Somali Xeer

How proverbs and customary law turn speech, reputation, and reconciliation into foundations of peace. “Hasid ma guuleysto”—an envious person fails—is more than a warning against jealousy. It captures a wider Somali understanding of character: what people say, intend, and do...

Chaim Y. Botwinick

Sep 4, 2026, 6:04 PM

Yishuv Eretz Yisrael: Fulfilling a Dream and Mitzvah vs. Protecting Our Future

Although the title of this article suggests two separate and discrete reasons for making Aliya to Israel, upon close examination, they are not totally mutually exclusive. Fulfilling the dream and mitzvah of yishuv eretz yisrael has always been a reality...

Sep 4, 2026, 5:59 PM

It’s Not That Bad Yet

The Most Dangerous Words May Be: “It’s Not That Bad Yet” History is easy to understand after it has happened. We know which warnings mattered, which reassurances proved false and which decisions came too late. Looking back at Europe in...

Sep 4, 2026, 5:55 PM

NITZAVIM - CHOOSING ANEW "Atem nitzavim hayom kulchem": you stand here today. All of you. So Nitzavim begins — not with a journey, not with a battle, not even with a new law, but with a position. Moses looks at...

Sep 4, 2026, 5:46 PM

Iran’s Shadow War Comes to America

Vibrant American flag flying against a clear blue sky, symbolizing freedom and patriotism from the website Pexels, free download for non-commercial use (https://www.pexels.com/photo/us-a-flag-on-pole-under-blue-sky-7483195/).

As U.S.-Iran hostilities intensify again, Washington must confront a second front in the conflict: the possibility that Tehran could seek to retaliate through covert networks, cyber operations, and other asymmetric means far beyond the Middle East. The latest escalation between...

Sep 4, 2026, 5:38 PM

The Mediterranean answers back

The Eastern Mediterranean is back to an old habit: forming combinations whenever Turkey becomes too eventful. This time, however, the combination contains Israel, which changes the arithmetic considerably. The Israel–Greece–Cyprus Trilateral Partnership The tightening strategic relationship between Israel, Greece and Cyprus...

Sep 4, 2026, 3:50 PM

Dominion Theology & Seven Mountains — Christian Witness to Cultural Control

White Theology and White Power XI The Seven Mountain Mandate is one of the clearest contemporary examples of why definitions matter in discussions of Christian nationalism. The idea is generally associated with networks in or adjacent to what scholars variously...

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