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'Religiously we may be monotheistic, but politically we’re pagan.'

Rapha Manajem

A seat at the tabernacle

Two Jews, three opinions, 11 political parties, and a country that can’t form a government: How Israel can break its election cycle

Jay Abramson

88 years after Kristallnacht, why are Jews still targeted?

When Philadelphians cyclists go after Jewish-owned businesses, they normalize anti-Jewish hostility, discarding the essential lessons of the ‘Night of Broken Glass’

Josh Fine

What Boy George taught me about being Jewish

The man in sequins has refused to let the dominant culture push him to trade truth for acceptance over more than 40 years. No wonder he ‘stands with the Jews’!

US Vice President JD Vance (AP Photo/Alex Brandon); US Senator Elect Abdul El-Sayed (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Pool)

Alexandria Fanjoy Silver

In America’s culture war, Israel was the loser

History teaches what happens when Jews become pawns in other people’s battles. This week’s midterm elections offered a chilling reminder

(Pixabay)

Pnina Omer

A woman’s own free will: On the sanctity of the marriage covenant

A healthy marriage means choosing each other anew every day – where turning consent into a mechanism for subjugation warps its very essence (Chayei Sarah)

US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks at the Michigan Democratic Party Endorsement Convention in Detroit on April 19, 2026. (Andrew Roth/Sipa USA via AP, via The Times of Israel)

An American rabbi’s letter to Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed

Before you take office, please pick up the phone to Jewish communal leaders in Michigan, meet with them and come prepared to listen – really listen

(courtesy)

Leah Stern

The nasty woman in my neighborhood

It began with cleaning up after my dog. It continued when she yelled at me and my kids. It ended when I gave up the grudge I nursed until I learned how wrong I’d been

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Barry Mellinger

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Abrahams Resting Place Cave of the Patriarchs Source Wiki Commons

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They See Israel. They Don’t Feel It.

I started with the wrong question. The question was why so many educated, comfortable American Jews, and especially their children, don’t see what I see about Israel. Put that way, I had already answered it. I’d decided they were...

Alexandre Gilbert

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Tony D. Senatore

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Valerie Hoffenberg

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Israel-EU Academic Ties at Stake: Time to Act

Europe and Israel: Why Academic Cooperation Must Be a Strategic Priority Now The European Union’s flagship research and education programmes, Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ Capacity Building, have enabled Israeli universities to secure billions in funding and gain international recognition. The...

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Teaching Arabic: The Most Urgent Change in Israeli Education

The results of Israel’s latest election are not merely another reminder of political deadlock and ongoing paralysis; they represent a harsh and resounding indictment of the very concept of Israeli democracy. Beyond the narrow coalition math of the morning...

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What We Carry, What We Leave Behind

I spent last week walking through places where Jews no longer live. Not because they moved to better neighborhoods or found opportunities elsewhere. They were murdered, driven out, or scattered, and the communities they spent centuries building were destroyed. For...

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