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Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

Meta agreed to protect America’s children. Who will protect Israel’s?

After nearly three years of war on their screens, Israeli children deserve the same safeguards Meta has agreed to provide American teens

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the drafting of Haredi youth near Bnei Brak, June 5, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s false promise of ‘study or serve’

The latest Haredi draft slogan gives voters exactly what they want to hear without delivering the soldiers Israel needs.

A Rosh Hashanah card made by 8-year-old Zahava Kanarek in the Westerbork transit camp, 1943 (Courtesy of the author)

Hephzibah Rudofsky

‘I hope that next year we will be in better circumstances’

The Rosh Hashanah card my mother made in a Nazi transit camp is a simple object filled with hope – and unanswered questions

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel pauses during an interview with The Associated Press, November 21, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Mijal Bitton

To Michigan AG Nessel and liberal Jews everywhere: Jewish survival isn’t immoral

While right and left disagree about what a value even is, let alone which of them are important, we Jews remember our timeless Jewish covenant (Nitzavim)

Gloria Steinem at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 7, 2016 (CC, Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia Commons)

Daphne Lazar Price

What Gloria Steinem taught this Orthodox feminist

Her questions about power, equality and who gets a voice gave me a way to challenge observant Judaism from within — without asking me to abandon it

In this handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas votes during the elections for the new central committee of the Fatah movement during their Eighth General Conference in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank on May 16, 2026. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP)

A new Palestinian politics could change Israel too

Choosing democracy, nonviolence and two states could show skeptical Israelis that there is indeed a partner for peace

An Israeli reserve soldier casts his ballot at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, in the the Golan Heights, on February 27, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

From the battlefield to the ballot box

A democratic society allows each Israeli to decide what makes the country worth fighting for. That’s the vision they should carry into the voting booth

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Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

Sep 7, 2026, 2:44 PM

Meta agreed to protect America’s children. Who will protect Israel’s?

(Fabio Principe / iStock)

After nearly three years of war on their screens, Israeli children deserve the same safeguards Meta has agreed to provide American teens

Sep 7, 2026, 2:04 PM

UN Human Rights Council: Challenges and Opportunities

Today, the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) kicks-off for another month-long meeting. The Council, the United Nation’s top body dealing with the protection and promotion of human rights around the world, is mandated to put...

Sep 7, 2026, 2:02 PM

A Labor Day weekend with Holocaust Survivor and renowned speaker Sami Steigmann

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Sami Steigmann is an American-Israeli Holocaust survivor, motivational speaker, and educator who has dedicated his life to teaching the next generation about tolerance, combating hate, and overcoming adversity. But what means more than anything else in the world to...

Kenneth Mokgatlhe

Sep 7, 2026, 1:55 PM

The Trojan Horse in Washington

How South Africa's Diplomatic War Against the West and Strategic Narrative Operations Have Penetrated the U.S. Capital In May 2026, the White House released the updated United States Counterterrorism Strategy. Unlike past policy frameworks that focused strictly on active combatants...

Alexandre Gilbert

Sep 7, 2026, 1:38 PM

Esther Teillard Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #347

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Esther Teillard is a French writer and literary journalist from Marseille who studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy and contributed to Artpress and France Culture. She published in 2025, Carnes (Pauvert editions, Prix Sade du premier...

Sep 7, 2026, 1:35 PM

Tehran’s Biggest Enemy May Be Inside Iran

Close-up view of Middle East map highlighting countries and borders, as from Pexels website (URL is https://www.pexels.com/photo/middle-eastern-countries-in-a-world-map-8828624/).

For decades, Iran sought security by pushing conflict beyond its borders, using missiles, militias, and proxies to impose costs on its adversaries while insulating the Islamic Republic from direct pressure. That logic is now under strain. Protests, growing armed...

Sep 7, 2026, 1:31 PM

What We Carry Into the New Year

Rosh Hashanah holiday meal

Rosh Hashanah has always felt different to me from other holidays. Maybe it is because it comes with a natural pause. Life is still busy, work is still there, and whatever problems we were dealing with the week before...

Sep 7, 2026, 1:30 PM

The New and Improved David Intercontinental Tel Aviv

With a long line of hotels along the Tel Aviv seashore, what makes the David Intercontinental stand out? As someone who had been lucky enough to stay in numerous luxury hotels in Israel and worldwide, I felt uniquely qualified to check it...

Sep 7, 2026, 9:00 AM

In The Beginning

Chapter 1 In the beginning, G-d created Artificial Intelligence. And it was good. But some men said, “No. It is bad. These large, electric chips of gold and silver are tools of the Devil. They turn brains into mush. They will destroy...

Sep 7, 2026, 8:12 AM

Trump as Cyrus: The Theology of the Chosen Imperfect Ruler

White Theology and White Power XIII The biblical Cyrus is an unusual figure to place at the center of American presidential theology. Cyrus the Great was a Persian ruler, not an Israelite king. In Isaiah 44 and 45 he appears...

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