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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

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

It takes a village – and the Peoples of Israel – to get me out of a dress

What do you do when you’re the only grown-up in the house?

Anti-Israel demonstrators march in Durban, South Africa, on August 31, 2001, toward the World Conference Against Racism. (Photo by AFP)AFP PHOTO (Photo by AFP)

Tova Herzl

25 years after Durban: The questions Israel must face

The 2001 UN racism conference descended into antisemitism, amplifying charges of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Can Israel still rebut them?

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Ben Lazarus

The blessings hidden in a terrible disease

PSP has brought suffering I would never wish on anyone. But approaching the High Holy Days, I find myself looking at both sides of life’s ledger

Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, center, speaks with Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, right, in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, in 1994. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Menachem Rosensaft

Ratko Mladic is dead. The meaning of genocide must live on

When the general ordered the slaughter of Bosniaks at Srebernica, he aimed to destroy a people. That’s why it was genocide — and why Israel’s Gaza war was not

The 'Coat of Many Colors' on display at Dolly Parton's Chasing Rainbows museum at Dollywood. The coat on display is a reproduction, made by Parton's mother, Avie Lee, of the original. (Wikipedia)

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Dolly’s riches and my new-baby haze are improving Israel’s election season

When I can give all of my attention to Israeli politicking, I’m at risk of missing the important stuff, buried amid the barrages of ugly accusations.

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Sep 2, 2026, 1:35 PM

They didn’t wake me. My hands aren’t clean.

“They didn’t wake me.” And my hands cannot be washed clean There are phrases that set out to explain a catastrophe and end up revealing something rather deeper. “They didn’t wake me” is one of them. Benjamin Netanyahu now maintains that, in...

Sep 2, 2026, 1:00 PM

What They Said!

From the very beginning מבְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית we are taught and experience the power of words. וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִ֣י א֑וֹר וַֽיְהִי־אֽוֹר׃ God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. בָּרוּךְ שֶׁאָמַר וְהָיָה הָעוֹלָם Blessed is He Who spoke, and the world came into...

Sep 2, 2026, 12:57 PM

The Limits of Managing Iran

Washington must demonstrate that economic pressure is intended to produce a political outcome rather than become an end in itself. (ChatGPT AI generated image of Donald Trump looking back at the flag of Iran amidst rubble in Tehran. Trump is moving beyond degrading Iran's nuclear ambitions or targeting the IRGC. The emerging objective is to weaken the regime's capacity to govern.)

Washington has treated the Iranian threat as a problem to contain and postpone. Trump’s wager is that the greater danger now lies in allowing that strategy to continue. For nearly half a century, the United States has pursued a policy...

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Sep 2, 2026, 12:54 PM

A Month in the Country

Spending time away from home gives one a chance to take a longer view of our everyday life, and no view could be longer, or further away from our routine in Israel, than spending time in a remote French...

Shari Sarah Motro

Sep 2, 2026, 12:51 PM

On Airconditioning and Sanity

When I was sick with Corona, I found myself remembering the doctor who led me onto the path that cured me of the medical nightmare of my late twenties and early thirties. Two decades later, I reached out in...

Sep 2, 2026, 12:49 PM

Israel: How Far Can Religious Exceptionalism Go?

Israel, a Jewish State and a Democracy: How Far Can Religious Exceptionalism Go? In Israel, the debate over the ultra-Orthodox is often portrayed as a clash between religious and secular Jews. That reading is too simplistic. The conflict is primarily...

Sep 2, 2026, 12:45 PM

When the Victim Becomes the Accused

Photo Credits:Sabine Sterk (ai)

There is something deeply disturbing happening in the way the Israeli Palestinian conflict is being recorded for future generations. It goes far beyond criticism of Israel, disagreement with its government, or opposition to a military operation. We are witnessing...

Sep 2, 2026, 12:42 PM

The Endless Scroll for Peace: Why do I keep fighting on social media?

Why do I keep posting my pro-Israel views on Facebook and Instagram? Why do I still naively believe that I have finally constructed the one defining argument that can persuade a friend, a former classmate, a neighbor’s son… who...

Sep 2, 2026, 12:38 PM

Rebuke and Return

The section of the Torah known as the תוכחה, or “rebuke,” is a lengthy warning of what will happen if the Jewish people forsake the Torah. It begins in Deuteronomy, Chapter 28:15, and ends fifty four verses later at 28:69....

Michael J. Lewis

Sep 2, 2026, 5:25 AM

AIPAC: “What Went Wrong?!” – 40 Years Observing AIPAC From the Inside!

AIPAC Offices: Past and present. Author's personal photos

These days it’s almost impossible to go online and not read yet-another critical article about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC); not see yet-more Congressional candidates rushing to disassociate themselves from AIPAC. Sadly, somehow - perhaps at least in...

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