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Josh Fine

What Boy George taught me about being Jewish

The man in sequins has refused to let the dominant culture push him to trade truth for acceptance over more than 40 years. No wonder he ‘stands with the Jews’!

US Vice President JD Vance (AP Photo/Alex Brandon); US Senator Elect Abdul El-Sayed (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Pool)

Alexandria Fanjoy Silver

In America’s culture war, Israel was the loser

History teaches what happens when Jews become pawns in other people’s battles. This week’s midterm elections offered a chilling reminder

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Pnina Omer

A woman’s own free will: On the sanctity of the marriage covenant

A healthy marriage means choosing each other anew every day – where turning consent into a mechanism for subjugation warps its very essence (Chayei Sarah)

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)

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

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

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Leah Stern

The nasty woman in my neighborhood

It began with cleaning up after my dog. It continued when she yelled at me and my kids. It ended when I gave up the grudge I nursed until I learned how wrong I’d been

Magen David Adom emergency vehicles at the scene of a suspected murder in Petah Tikva, November 2, 2026 (Magen David Adom)

17 women murdered. We cannot accept an 18th victim

Before another woman is killed by a family member, Israel’s next government – and its men – must take responsibility for preventing violence

US aid to Israel costs 4 pints of Guinness a year

Americans pay a pittance. Israel pays with its strategic independence. It’s time to end the arrangement

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Nov 7, 2026, 5:48 PM

Mansour Abbas: A Security Opportunity for Israel

Look beyond a single headline to his actions, priorities, and the security benefits of Jewish–Arab political cooperation. A November 5 Times of Israel headline focused on Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas’s refusal to call Hamas a terrorist organisation, citing his family’s...

Nov 7, 2026, 5:14 PM

Missing the Mark: The Scriptural, Linguistic, and Logical Triumph of the Torah

The theological dialogue between Judaism and Christianity represents one of the most profound and long-standing debates in human history. Far from a mere disagreement over the identity of a single historical figure, it exposes a fundamental chasm regarding the...

Vincent James Hooper

Nov 7, 2026, 5:12 PM

The Ballot and the Strait

Seventy years ago this week, Dwight Eisenhower won a second term on the same day the guns fell silent at Suez. On 6 November 1956 Americans voted while British and French troops were still advancing along the canal and...

Nov 7, 2026, 5:10 PM

Some British MPs and councillors have a fixation unrelated to local issues

A typical inflammatory and untrue tweet from Coventry South (UK) member of Parliament, Zarah Sultana, for which she was not censured for

Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South, recently warned that the Government risked adding “the stain of the climate crisis” to its political record "alongside its handling of Gaza". It's as if he, among many political representatives, is using...

Nov 7, 2026, 5:09 PM

Can agentic AI make sustainable finance more profitable?

The financial sector has spent years discussing the need to mobilize more capital towards the green transition. Financial institutions are expected to manage climate-related risks, assess the sustainability profile of portfolios, and increase financing for green activities. Yet a...

Nov 7, 2026, 5:07 PM

Superdeterminism and Destiny – The Physics of Who We Are

What if everything that has ever happened to you was always going to happen? Every decision. Every heartbreak. Every mistake and every win. Every moment of extraordinary courage when you had absolutely no idea where that courage was coming from. What...

Lawrence Maximo

Nov 7, 2026, 5:02 PM

Abdul El-Sayed: The face of extremism through democratic channels

Terrorist groups have altered their modus operandi to infiltrate and strike the West. No longer do they hurl planes into buildings, as on September 11 on American soil itself — classified as the deadliest terrorist attack ever suffered by...

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Nov 7, 2026, 4:16 PM

I am a liberal Californian, and I am still Israeli first

So like, I’m a California girl who like grew up beside the Pacific Ocean and like somehow ended up making Jerusalem my home… I am also a liberal American Jew. A Zionist. A mother. A woman who believes in democracy,...

Nov 7, 2026, 9:36 AM

More Than Music: Yehuda Meitav, Memory, Resistance and the Courage to Speak Up

Some music entertains us. Some makes us think. And then there is music that reaches into our souls, awakens memories across generations, and reminds us who we are and why we must never forget. For me, the music of Yehuda...

Nov 7, 2026, 9:35 AM

You Reap What You Sow, The Netherlands

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk ( AI)

When a Nation Normalizes Hatred, It Should Not Be Surprised When Terror Comes Knocking On October 7, 2023, the world witnessed one of the most barbaric massacres of Jewish people since the Holocaust. Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, slaughtered families...

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