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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel pauses during an interview with The Associated Press, November 21, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Mijal Bitton

To Michigan AG Nessel and liberal Jews everywhere: Jewish survival isn’t immoral

While right and left disagree about what a value even is, let alone which of them are important, we Jews remember our timeless Jewish covenant (Nitzavim)

Gloria Steinem at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 7, 2016 (CC, Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia Commons)

Daphne Lazar Price

What Gloria Steinem taught this Orthodox feminist

Her questions about power, equality and who gets a voice gave me a way to challenge observant Judaism from within — without asking me to abandon it

In this handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas votes during the elections for the new central committee of the Fatah movement during their Eighth General Conference in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank on May 16, 2026. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP)

A new Palestinian politics could change Israel too

Choosing democracy, nonviolence and two states could show skeptical Israelis that there is indeed a partner for peace

Shayna Goldberg

When we forget, God remembers

This Rosh Hashana, I’m grateful that He remembers the father I remember. The strong, wise one I could turn to with any question, before Alzheimer’s began taking him from us

(enlabs via iStock)

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

Image: ChatGPT

Judy Halper

You’re soldiers. She’s a paramedic. Get in the APC

The refusal to share space with a woman exposes a widening clash over religion, equality and the Israel we want to be

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Sep 5, 2026, 1:04 PM

Democracies proscribe weapons sales to Israel

In 1947 and 1948, in advance of Israel declaring its independence, Israel found itself at a disadvantage militarily and demographically to its Arab neighbors. With only about 600,000 Jews residing in Mandatory Palestine, living under British rule since the...

Sep 5, 2026, 1:02 PM

The Decline of the World Is Visible on X

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

There was a time when Twitter seemed almost revolutionary in the best possible sense of the word. Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, it began with a remarkably simple idea: allow people...

Sep 5, 2026, 12:49 PM

Iran Has Every Condition for an Uprising. No Guarantees Yet.

In November 1944, Ancel Keys, a physiologist at the University of Minnesota advising the War Department, began the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. He needed to understand how prolonged hunger affects the human body and how to safely treat severe malnutrition. Thirty-six...

Sep 5, 2026, 12:46 PM

Gaza: Voluntary Relocation in Name Only

Displacement produced through coercive circumstances This week, within days of each other, two members of Israel's government put new institutional weight behind something that has been implicit in Israeli policy for more than a year. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir...

Robert Huebscher

Sep 5, 2026, 10:17 AM

Harvard’s Israel Exception

The Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr-Ryan Center says its mission is to educate future leaders about human rights. Its treatment of Israel offers a different lesson: how an institution can advertise balance while applying scrutiny unevenly. Since Hamas’s October 7, 2023,...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 5, 2026, 10:14 AM

Qiyamah El Ninos For Dajjal, Mahdi and Messiahs At Work

Over 50 years, three El Niño events were considered “extreme”: 1982-83, 1997-98 and 2015-16, said Michael McPhaden, a senior scientist. This current El Niño will rival those previous record El Niños, if not exceed them in magnitude, McPhaden said. "With...

Purna Lal Chakma

Sep 5, 2026, 10:10 AM

Did Pakistan Defeat India in the Chittagong Hill Tracts?

An AI-generated editorial illustration of PCJSS President Jyotirindra Bodhipriya “Santu” Larma and former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina around the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord. The open agreement, surrendered rifle, white dove and Indigenous representatives symbolize PCJSS’s choice of peace and hope for a better Bangladesh. Created by the author using AI; not a historical photograph.

In December 1997, India appeared to secure an important political success without firing a shot. The Bangladesh government and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti, or PCJSS, signed the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, ending more than two decades of...

Jaclyn S. Clark

Sep 5, 2026, 10:08 AM

George Clooney Defended a Right Nobody Threatened

A federal judge just decided what “antisemitic” is. Clooney should read the order. On Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival, a reporter asked George Clooney about Mark Ruffalo, and Clooney said this: “I support Mark Ruffalo’s ability to speak freely....

Joseph M. Bianchi

Sep 5, 2026, 10:06 AM

Will Ben Gvir’s Extreme Views Result in a Public Relations Catastrophe?

While Tucker Carlson and Candice Owens proudly trumpet the “crimes” of Israel, and as the rise of the New Anti-Semitism reaches a crescendo among both Left and Right in American media, the last thing Jews around the world need...

Sep 5, 2026, 10:05 AM

Between Two Mountains: Ki Tavo and the Day the Judges Are Judged

There is a moment before every catastrophe when evil still appears negotiable. It has not yet revealed its full face. It arrives dressed in promises: order, security, national greatness, historical justice. It asks only for a little silence, one...

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