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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Yaniv Hayun, one of the Israelis who helped subdue a flydubai copilot who allegedly sought to crash a plane full of Israelis, on the passengers' return to Ben Gurion Airport on September 30, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Shimon Sheves

Flydubai: Luck is not a security policy

A bathroom trip, a wounded captain and a few brave passengers prevented a catastrophe. That should trigger an investigation, not a photo op

(Getty Images via JTA)

My son didn’t walk away from Judaism. I walked away from him

His intermarriage awakened my fears about betraying our Jewish ancestors. It took 10 years to understand that the living were waiting for my love

New York City Hall

Jonathan Jacoby

An open letter to Jonathan Greenblatt: This time, choose engagement

The ADL praised Trump while criticizing parts of his antisemitism policy. Why not take the same approach to Mamdani’s new plan for safeguarding Jewish New Yorkers?

Asaf Rajuan, one of the Israeli passengers who intervened in a terror attack on the pilot by his first officer on a flydubai flight, hugs another passenger from the same flight, as they arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, September 30, 2026. (AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)

Michael Oren

Flydubai Flight FZ1073 and the indomitability of the Jews

We love life in ways that will always outpace the death-cult of those who would destroy us and we will always rise up to defend it – even if we had somewhere else to go

Image by the author and her AI friends

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Simchat Torah: Where there’s change, I find hope

Dancing with the Torah was once a hard sell for many Orthodox women, but it’s the default for the next generation in my shul – a quiet revolution on the women’s side

A smashed window at Jerusalem's Kol HaNeshama, a Reform synagogue in Jerusalem that was vandalized on August 14, 2026. (Kol HaNeshama via X)

Peter Buchsbaum

Baseless hatred

The repeated attacks on Reform synagogues should alarm all who care about Israel. Hatred that divides Jew from Jew betrays both Judaism and Zionism.

Ari Applbaum

What Sukkot knows about the mental load

Despite our egalitarian ideals, my wife runs our home for 51 weeks a year. And then, for one long holiday, Jewish law gives men like me that experience

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