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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

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.

People look at a damaged "Martyrs Monument" in the West Bank village of Madama after far-right Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot smashed it, August 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Don’t talk about the sledgehammer. Talk about the monument

The outrage over Zvi Sukkot’s stunt obscured the question Israel should be pushing the world to ask: Why are terrorists being publicly commemorated?

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