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Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 21, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Lindsey Graham’s white whale

The late US senator thought Saudi-Israel normalization was within reach. He misread Netanyahu on Palestinian statehood

Illustrative: Israelis at a cafe in Tel Aviv, on May 18, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jamie Feder

Why this liberal New Yorker made aliyah

When I moved to Israel, some friends disappeared. Hundreds unfollowed me. But all that rejection made me more comfortable with who I am and what I believe

Personal archive

Nurit Gil

The report card no one sees

In Israel, I learned to measure my children’s education not only by their grades, but also by how they navigate the country, cook a meal – and deal with war

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Magnus Torén

NAZA, moral certainty, and the question haunting me since October 8

The film’s explosive claims about civilian deaths in Gaza demand evidence, not mythology — and Jews everywhere should not be made defendants

9/11

Orly Lavi Travish

Between memory and history

My Hebrew students weren’t alive on September 11, 2001. If memory is to survive as more than a date in a textbook, I have to teach them the vocabulary to pass it on

At the 9/11 memorial on the west side of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on September 11, 2023, many civilians came to commemorate the US Department of Defense staff and rescue workers who were killed in a terrorist attack 22 years ago. (iStock)

Gayle Meyers

Rushing forward, seized with fear

Crises like the terror attacks of 9/11 summon us with the trumpet of bravery and the still, small voice of love, as we write our stories with our deeds (Rosh Hashanah)

President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 8, 2026. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Isaac Herzog

A Rosh Hashanah message to the Jewish people

After all the pain and longing, the majestic notes of the shofar carry three calls that bring us into a better future

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Nassir Hussein Kahin

Sep 14, 2026, 7:50 PM

Somaliland Chose Taiwan and Israel: The Case for Trust and a Wider Partnership

Original HOASR editorial artwork illustrating Somaliland’s resilience and its relationships with Taiwan and Israel. Bridges symbolize sustained cooperation, while scenes of healthcare, irrigation, technology, trade and energy show the potential for a partnership extending beyond maritime security.

Somaliland’s choices under pressure demonstrate reliability and resilience while Taiwan’s practical record and Israeli recognition create the basis for a productive partnership beyond maritime security. Somaliland chose Taiwan when doing so invited pressure from China. It chose Israel knowing that...

Sep 14, 2026, 7:44 PM

Able Danger – Story of the 9/11 Fail

In late May 2000, an Army major named Erik Kleinsmith sat in his office at the Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) with a chief warrant officer named Terri Stephens, weighing two options. Delete the data his team had...

Chaim Y. Botwinick

Sep 14, 2026, 7:33 PM

Teshuva, Tefilla, Tzedakah – The Inner Work of Returning

We say it so fast during the Yamim Noraim that we almost don't hear it: U'Teshuva, U'Tefilla, U'Tzedakah ma'avirin et roa ha'gezeira. Teshuva, Tefilla and Tzedakah avert the severe decree. But what decree? And why these three? Our rabbis teach that these three...

Sep 14, 2026, 7:30 PM

From Jerusalem to Jericho, Did Gold Classify Water Quality in the Copper Scroll?

From “Waters of Gold” to a Water Registry: The Linguistic Sources of the Copper Scroll The use of “gold” as a metaphor for exceptional quality, purity, and supreme value is familiar in modern Hebrew expressions such as “the golden age,”...

Nestor Daniel Scherman

Sep 14, 2026, 7:28 PM

When the facts are true, but the story may not be

During a stay in Turkey, I found myself doing something I normally don’t do when I travel: watching quite a lot of local television. Not because I understood Turkish. Quite the opposite. Whenever a news item caught my attention, I...

Sep 14, 2026, 7:19 PM

Hayom: It’s Time

There's a question I find myself returning to, over and over again, during the chagim. What time is it???? Literally, what time is it… I can tell you what day it is. I can tell you which service we're in from the...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 14, 2026, 7:12 PM

The World Exists for Israel

In Parshat Haazinu, Dvarim 32:8-9, we come across a perplexing idea: When the Supreme One gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided humankind, He set the borders of the peoples according to the number of B’nai Yisrael. For the...

Sep 14, 2026, 7:11 PM

We fool ourselves

It is human nature to do things for what we think is a very good reason, but people fool themselves. An example is the modern-day practice of Hebrew-loving Jews calling their grandparents by names they think are ancient Hebrew....

Sep 14, 2026, 7:10 PM

From a Day of Horror to a Day of Service

At a moment when relations between Canada and the United States have been strained by a bruising trade dispute, the US Consulate General in Toronto hosted a moving commemoration marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. I...

Alexander I. Poltorak

Sep 14, 2026, 7:07 PM

Nucleating the New Year: Rosh HaShanah as a Phase Transition

The Coronation Puzzle Rosh HaShanah is usually translated as the New Year. More precisely, it is the “Head of the Year.” But I want to ask a simpler question: what actually happens on this day? Our sages tell us that this...

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