The Blogs | The Marketplace of Ideas

Open Search form

Apply for a Blog

'Jonah Cast Forth by the Whale,' by Gustave Doré, 1874. (National Library of Poland, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Tanya White

Rereading Jonah after NAZA

Abraham is my hero for his complex faith, but Jonah’s intense loyalty to the Jewish people spotlights the fallacy of extending compassion to just everyone

From an illuminated 'Ashamnu,' by Nathan [ben Samson] of Mezhyrich, 1723, in the repentance liturgy. (Wikipedia)

Mijal Bitton

How to fail Yom Kippur

I take my lesson from ‘Severance’ and its portrait of failure; to safeguard against it, I’ll be preparing a personal confession and naming my hopes for the future

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, and his wife Rama Duwaji wave at members of media after a news conference at Gracie Mansion, January 12, 2026, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)

Binyamin Krauss

My school will pray outside Gracie Mansion on Friday

Mamdani likely won’t be there, but the kids will learn about their civic responsibilities, their privileges, and how Jews who feel unsafe gather and pray, aloud

(courtesy)

Sarit Zehavi

What ‘Naza’ really means: The truth about collateral damage

The filmmakers mistook the IDF’s system for limiting civilian casualties for something far darker. They should have asked me; I helped build it

(Roxiller / iStock)

Reed Berger-Fleishman

What to know if you’re on GLP‑1 drugs and plan to fast for Yom Kippur

Time your medication, prepare for the fast, and recognize when going without food and water may no longer be safe

Illustrative. A Haredi yeshiva, August 29, 2013. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90/ File)

Rivka Ravitz

I never let my children fundraise, until now

When the Israeli government cut its subsidies for Haredi Torah study, the rabbis enlisted the community to make up the shortfall. Even the girls. Even my daughter

Ballot papers in the election By Hanay - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,

Generation Right: Young voters are shaping Israel’s unapologetic future

Israelis casting their first ballots value security and self-reliance – busting Western assumptions that all youth are progressive

See all Featured Posts

Blogs topics

Latest posts

Sep 18, 2026, 7:27 PM

Never Again: A Brownshirt in Their Midst

On 10 September, Grzegorz Braun, a Member of the European Parliament, took a hammer to a monument commemorating members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the village of Białystok in Poland's Lublin voivodeship. He then publicized the vandalism...

Mohamed Abdi Idiris

Sep 18, 2026, 7:24 PM

From Hargeisa to Washington: Somaliland Makes Its Strategic Case to America

When President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi “Irro” travelled from Hargeisa to Washington this September, Somaliland was carrying more than a diplomatic message. It was presenting a strategic proposition: that a stable, democratic and geographically important partner on the southern shores...

Sep 18, 2026, 7:07 PM

Baptism 2030: Israel, Jordan and Palestine Unlock Kahlat and the Copper Scroll?

Israel and Jordan Prepare for the 2,000th Anniversary of the Baptism: Could Academic Cooperation Reveal the Secrets of Kahlat and the Copper Scroll? The year 2030 will mark 2,000 years since the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River—an event...

Sep 18, 2026, 7:02 PM

The Mecca Pact: An alliance on paper

Confronted by the Houthis, Riyadh discovers the fragility of Its alliances—and the unacknowledged usefulness of Israel

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 18, 2026, 6:58 PM

Has Lithuania’s Revocation Been Revoked?

The Foreign Ministry invokes Vytautas as the source of Jewish rights and hospitality. The LAF revoked those rights in Vytautas’s name. No specific Lithuanian act repudiating that revocation has been identified. Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence began 2025 by again...

Sep 18, 2026, 6:50 PM

If You Have ‘F***-You Money’, Why Not Use It for Something Good?

Robert Kraft, Pink, and Jerry Seinfeld. Photos: David Silverman / New England Patriots and Dmileson, CC BY-SA 4.0; David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0. AI-assisted montage and black-and-white adaptation by The Jew News Review, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0

Kraft, Pink, Seinfeld and the courage to speak up for Jews—even when success can’t shield you from the backlash. There’s a wonderfully inelegant expression for having enough money that you no longer have to worry about offending the people who...

Sep 18, 2026, 6:43 PM

Coping with our Sins

The Days of Awe have a few central themes. Sin, return, charity, kindness, and G-d’s Omnipotence, to name a few. According to tradition, most individuals enter this holiday period with their life in the balance. What can we do...

Michael J. Salamon

Sep 18, 2026, 6:33 PM

The Delusion Perpetuated by NAZA

The controversy surrounding NAZA is not difficult to understand. The film presents itself as a serious account of Israel and the war in Gaza, yet its framing appears less interested in examining a painful and complex conflict than in...

Sep 18, 2026, 6:27 PM

Why a Technical Bloc is not a Partnership

Image created by Lisa Liel using ChatGPT

Ever since Moshe Feiglin's Zehut Party signed a technical bloc agreement with Betzalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism Party, I've seen one person after another refer to this as a "partnership". It is not. A technical bloc is a political maneuver intended to...

Sep 18, 2026, 6:25 PM

There Is No Single Black Democratic Position on Israel

What Black political diversity reveals about Israel, Gaza and coalition politics One sentence in this series deserves an essay of its own: there is no single “Jewish position,” and there is no single “Black position.” The point is easy to...

Load more