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'Intifada until the victory' appears on the bathroom's wall of the University of Bologna on October 2023. (courtesy)

Think intifada won’t touch you? Think again

My fellow Italians chant anti-Israel slogans, forgetting that hate never ends with Jews and ignoring what that means for their own free society

IDF soldiers seen near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, October 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

How Israel can leverage its successes (yes, successes)

Despite massive failures leading up to this year of war, Israel has key achievements it can use to solidify its regional standing

Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, October 7, 2024 (Noah Efron)

A holy Yom Kippur in Dizengoff Square

Should gender-separated prayers be allowed in Tel Aviv’s famed public space? This year calls us to ask a different question

Chicken or egg? (iStock)

Daniel M. Cohen

Our communal liminal moment

It’s time to get serious about ensuring that the Jewish community today and tomorrow will be safe, secure, and able to thrive

Police stand outside Tempel Beth-El synagogue in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Thursday, November 3, 2022 after the FBI said it had received credible information about a "broad" threat to synagogues in New Jersey. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

We must re-commit to fight the contagion of antisemitism

Jew-hatred reached record heights even before October 7. It has exploded since then, and spilled over into rage against America itself

The Israeli flag at Kibbutz Netiv HaAsara is lowered to half-mast to commemorate the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre, on October 6, 2024. (Shalom Yerushalmi / Times of Israel)

After October 7: ToI bloggers illuminate a changed world

11 blog posts to help note the ways Israel, the Jewish people, and each of us individuals face a different reality than we did a year ago

A man casts a shadow on the wall as he enters the roadside bomb shelter where Ziv Abud survived, protected by the crush of bodies above her, during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, near Kibbutz Reim, seen on September 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Yossi Klein Halevi

The end of the post-Holocaust era

October 7 shattered Israelis’ faith that the state would protect them and shook American Jewry’s sense of full social acceptance – but there is a way forward

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Jacob Mendlovic

Oct 10, 2024, 7:00 AM

In Praise Of The Book Of Deuteronomy

The current Torah readings for Shabbat are from the Book of Deuteronomy, which encapsulates much of what Judaism is about - ethical teachings and a guide for the living - and a riposte against antisemites and anti-Zionists. Let's face...

Oct 10, 2024, 6:46 AM

Anchoring Oneself in Hope: One Year 365.10.23

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Bring Them Home Necklace: Janna Tusa, New York, NY

October has become a very challenging month for me. Although fall is my favorite season, certain events during this time prompt deep introspection and reflection. Last October marked the beginning of a new journey, guiding me through many winding...

Oct 10, 2024, 6:45 AM

The main figure related to Yom Kippur during the time of the Beit Hamikdash, was the Kohein Hagadol, the High Priest. He was appointed the messenger of the people, to help them receive atonement. The process of the Temple service...

Elchanan Poupko

Oct 10, 2024, 6:43 AM

Rosh Hashana, Between Universal and Personal

There is no day in the year, except perhaps for Yom Kippur, that radiates intimacy the way Rosh Hashana does. The Mishna in Rosh Hashana teaches us that on Rosh Hashana, every creature in the world passes in front...

Oct 10, 2024, 6:43 AM

Bibi Netanyahu: The Churchill of the Middle East

Benjamin Netanyahu addressing U.S. Congress (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

When Hitler rose to power in 1933, his intentions to remilitarize Germany did not go unnoticed. It was an ‘open secret’ that Germany was breaking the Treaty of Versailles. The Western leadership, including figures like Franklin D. Roosevelt, had...

Oct 10, 2024, 6:38 AM

A cost we are paying with lives.

The desert wind gives no warning. It arrives suddenly, dry, suffocating, reminding us that time waits for no one. Out there, amid the dust and the war, are our brothers, forgotten in some dark place, waiting for an answer...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Oct 10, 2024, 6:37 AM

Again, improper health statistics on the effects of war abound in Israel’s press

Nothing misleads better than faulty statistics reported by number dyslexics Most medical-statistical nonsense is made public by physicians who don't understand statistics and reported by journalists who're blind to numbers. But some medical misinformation is deliberate. This is when numbers are...

Oct 10, 2024, 6:36 AM

Remembering the Lives Lost October 7, 2023—May Their Memories Be a Blessing

Did you pause at any time during the last few days and remember the victims of October 7, 2023? I don’t ask to peddle Jewish guilt, but because I feel it’s so important. Not only if you are Jewish,...

Oct 10, 2024, 6:34 AM

October 7 and the Long War on Jewish Civilization

THE SHARDS OF 10/7 REVEAL A PAINFUL TRUTH It has been one year since our happiness shattered on the very day Jewish tradition asks us to celebrate the joy of completing the annual Torah reading cycle. Many Jews and Israelis...

Oct 10, 2024, 6:32 AM

One Year Later: Los Angeles Remembers 2024

This is the speech I gave at the “Los Angeles Remembers” ceremony on October 7, 2024 for the one-year anniversary of the horrific October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre in southern Israel. The event was co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of...

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