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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem, on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nathan Lewin

A US consulate in Jerusalem states that Jerusalem is not in Israel

The US would ‘deepen ties with Palestinians’ if it provided accessible consular services in Ramallah, but there’s no practical need for new services in Jerusalem

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Stepping into the shoes of Abraham’s un-settlement

The inheritance of the land depends on avoiding the forgetfulness that comes with being settled, privileged, and safe, or it will be lost, promised or not.

Photo by Davi Mendes on Unsplash

Ariel Beery

The speech Bennett should give at the 26th Climate Change Conference

Israel understands that humanity’s success depends on our best and brightest across the world working together to counter the clear and present dangers we face

Sandra Cohen

On not donating bone marrow

Of course I want my life to have meaning. I want to do things that matter. But I’m afraid I have nothing more to contribute to the world, not even my marrow

photo: Nancy Cahners

Nancy Cahners

On a mission… in a sex shop

When a salesperson offered to help, I was glad I’d looked up the Hebrew for ‘Do you sell comfortable bondage?’ I was, of course, asking for a friend

Judicial officers stand in the empty court room of the Langericht Itzehoe court prior to the trial of a 96-year-old former secretary of the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Itzehoe, Germany, September 30, 2021. (AP Photo/ Markus Schreiber, Pool). Inset shows Irmgard Furchner.

Efraim Zuroff

Too many Nazi criminals are convicted and sentenced, but do no time

Even if Irmgard Furchner is convicted of being an ‘accessory to murder,’ she probably won’t see the walls of a prison cell, but running away got her a week in jail

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Laura Ben-David

PHOTO ESSAY: The long overdue aliyah of the Bnei Menashe

It took 27 centuries, but now what a privilege to witness this incredible parade of smiling, happy, flag-waving people at Ben Gurion airport, as if in a dream

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Dani Ishai Behan

Oct 16, 2021, 7:00 AM

On The Theatrics Of Inversion: How Indigenous People Became ‘Settlers’

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Two days ago, activist JB Brager of the deceptively-named 'Jewish Voice for Peace' published an illustrated analysis of Zionism as an indigenous rights cause in Jewish Currents. Their picture book (a fitting medium, I suppose) is not so much an...

Andy Blumenthal

Oct 15, 2021, 11:39 PM

Our World of Fake News

No, there isn't a dead body on this bus stop bench! But if you were reading news about Israel then chances are it would be reported as that and of course, "the horrible Jews" did it! Why? Because fake news...

Oct 15, 2021, 11:37 PM

The intuitive nature of faith

Parashat Lech Lecha October 15, 2021 8 Cheshvan 5782 Haftorah: Isaiah 40:27-41:16 This haftorah is about inner strength and the loss of strength. It is about strength lasting in the sense of faith and trustworthiness. In this haftorah the prophet Isaiah offers metaphorical...

Oct 15, 2021, 11:37 PM

The Problem with Facebook — and the Solution? Us.

Many years ago, when I was in law school, my friends had a term for when I inadvertently (or perhaps sometimes intentionally) instigated a firestorm of an argument over dinner or drinks – we called it a brushfire. Now...

Oct 15, 2021, 11:35 PM

Theodora, Bruriah’s Sister and the Flaws of some Biblical Heroes

The words for Handel’s “Theodora” are not written in the Torah, or even in the book they call the gospels, or epistles Paul wrote to the Romans and Galatians and other gentiles whose persuasions conflicted with his own. Their source is neither classical nor Norse, but comes...

Oct 15, 2021, 11:32 PM

Correcting Lithuania’s historical record on the Holocaust

This article originally appeared in Jewish Independent on October 12, 2021, and with their permission, am reprinting it here. It was written by Sam Margolis of Vancouver. Jonas Noreika, who was executed by the Soviets in 1947, has been revered...

Oct 15, 2021, 11:32 PM

Celebrating famous Jews from Ukraine: Arthur Burns

The current US recession officially began in February 2020 and lasted only 2 months. Macroeconomic indicators made it possible to record the end of the recession already in April, which was announced by the National Bureau of Economic Research...

Judith R. Robinson

Oct 15, 2021, 11:31 PM

Hello from Pittsburgh. Facing some grim facts today. Sorry! Antisemitism is on the rise again. A virus, metaphorically. Always there, always waxing and waning, never leaving, always adapting. Jews were once hated for their religion (think Spanish Inquisition) for their race...

Sheldon Kirshner

Oct 15, 2021, 11:30 PM

Settler Violence In The West Bank Increases

The incidence of Jewish settler violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has increased exponentially in the past few years, and is aimed primarily at Palestinians but also at Israeli security forces. There were 363 violent incidents in 2019, 507 in...

Michael Laitman

Oct 15, 2021, 11:30 PM

The Balance a Year After the Abraham Accords

Knesset Member Ofir Akunis presents Jared Kushner with a gift as Ivanka Trump, Israeli Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara look on at the inaugural event of the Abraham Accords Caucus in the Knesset, or Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem October 11, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

A bilateral agreement between countries is always better than no agreement. A year since the signing of the US-brokered Abraham Accords for peace and normalization of relations between Israel and Arab states, the question is how have they truly...

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