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Then-newly-elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reviews the honor guard upon his arrival at the Lebanese Parliament to be sworn in as a new president, in Beirut, Lebanon, January 9, 2025. (AP Photo/ Hussein Malla)

Rawan Osman

Lebanon at the crossroads: Honest words are not enough

Peace with Israel hinges on Aoun acknowledging what brought Lebanon to its knees – not Israeli aggression, but the deliberate action of an Iranian-backed militia

Voting slips being counted in Israeli election for the Knesset. (Courtesy Times of Israel, Miriam Alster/Flash90).

Avidan Freedman

The ‘hate speech’ we need to stop for elections

A little curiosity and humility will help keep us from blaming dispute for hatred and hatred for dispute –the latter is preventable, at least (Korach)

Haredi protesters attempt to block traffic on a road in Beit Shemesh during a demonstration on June 9, 2026. (Israel Police)

Tobey Finkelstein

If only just a few Haredim were calling police ‘Nazis’ and women ‘shiksas’

Ultra-Orthodox rioters are no longer fringe extremists: I watched local teens block cars and my Haredi neighbors cheer them on – as the police did nothing

Members of an Iraqi Shiite group attend a funeral of a Kataeb Hezbollah fighter, who was killed in a US airstrike in Basra province south of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Ab Boskany

The perilous fantasy of US withdrawal from the Mideast

For those who imagine a peaceful region if America retreats: What will happen when Iran’s radical proxies fill the power vacuum and Israel has to face them alone?

Women in Lycra exercising at the gym. (iStock)

Talyah Ginsberg

I have met the enemy and she is wearing Lycra

There’s a lot less of me than there used to be, but now they say I have to exercise and I’m conducting treaty negotiations with myself about a 10-minute walk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the state comptroller election at the plenum of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 3, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shimon Sheves

How chaos became the government’s most powerful political tool

By normalizing disruption, the country’s leadership is chiseling away at the public’s discomfort with tyranny, as we head to elections

Elchanan Poupko

Settler violence is reshaping religious Zionism

As Kahanist ideas gain ground, religious Zionism’s failure to confront settler violence is endangering both Israel’s future and the movement’s soul

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Jun 14, 2026, 12:32 AM

The Broken Shield

The Star of David was not born as a symbol of state. Gershom Scholem spent decades tracing its history and found something unsettling: for centuries, the hexagram was an ornament, an amulet, a decorative figure without fixed theological weight....

Jun 14, 2026, 12:31 AM

Persia Bred Top-Tier Diggers for Millennia. Why Leave Its Uranium Buried?

In the second week of June 2026, as American and Iranian negotiators reported that a deal was within reach, a CNN report citing five sources familiar with United States intelligence described something that points in the opposite direction. Rather...

Jun 14, 2026, 12:30 AM

A Voter’s Guide To New York’s 12th Congressional District – The Nadler Seat

For People Worried About Antisemitism Bad News – The Candidates Suck The primary to select the democratic candidate for New York’s 12th Congressional District (NY-12) in the November election is on June 23, and mail-in voting has begun. This primary is...

Jun 13, 2026, 10:00 PM

What are You Doing Here?

A Palestinian landscape and an Israeli tank in the distant background (Gemini- generated image)

Last Sunday afternoon, I wondered if a terrorist attack by a Palestinian citizen of Israel warranted a blog. It happened nearby, but closer to the city where he lived. Several Jewish towns were placed under lockdown, spending hours in...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 13, 2026, 9:58 PM

A Mal’ach HaMavet, An Angel of Death and A Tree of Life were created together

The Mal’ach HaMavet-the Angel of Death and the Tree of Life were created on the same day, several billion years ago. In the beginning old age didn’t exist. When hunting animals slowed down or were wounded they could not eat...

Jun 13, 2026, 9:58 PM

Tactical wins, strategic losses

Why do we repeatedly make the mistake of thinking that if we use more military force, we will achieve more security? Why do we repeat the same mistake of the First Lebanon War, where our soldiers' blood was spilled...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Jun 13, 2026, 9:56 PM

The Wreath and the Knife

Lietukis Garage pogrom - Source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/aftermath-of-a-massacre-at-lietukis-garage-in-kovno

On June 27, 2026, the eighty-fifth anniversary of the Lietūkis Garage massacre will be marked in Kaunas and by Lithuanian diplomats in Israel and USA. Expect the wreaths. Expect the candles, the bowed heads, the violin music, the brief and...

Silas Anastacio

Jun 13, 2026, 9:56 PM

Chaverim promotes visit to Catavento Museum as an integration activity

Last weekend, members of the Chaverim organization took part in a visit to the Catavento Museum in São Paulo, in an activity with the institution’s president, Sarita Mucinic Sarue. The gathering brought together participants of different ages for a moment...

Jun 13, 2026, 9:55 PM

Israel Has Lost the World. That Is the Story, Anyway.

Since October 7, we have been treated to a relentless lecture. Israel, we are told, has lost the world. It has squandered international goodwill. It has alienated its allies. It has isolated itself through its conduct in Gaza. Polls...

Vorya Hossein Panahi Tazehabad

Jun 13, 2026, 6:25 PM

The World’s Silence is Not Neutral — It is a Choice

There is a particular kind of suffocation that happens before you even open your mouth. Not the silence that follows a scream. Not the silence after a protest has been crushed. But the silence that greets you before you even...

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