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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

Katie Cunningham

‘Cunningham? That doesn’t sound very Jewish’

What does it mean to stand with the Jewish people even though I am not Jewish — and why is that responsibility mine, too?

Shayna Goldberg

When we forget, God remembers

This Rosh Hashana, I’m grateful that He remembers the father I remember. The strong, wise one I could turn to with any question, before Alzheimer’s began taking him from us

(enlabs via iStock)

Paula Slier

In Israel’s AI election, who decides what is true?

Forget the spectacular deepfake. AI’s most dangerous feature is the way it packages reality for voters

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Sep 5, 2026, 5:45 PM

Oblivion and Sewage

A split society - Gemini.AI-generated

Since clearly the Jewish political arena sees no alternatives to a Palestinian state perceived as palatable in the public arena, maybe we should look at other problems. Like sewage. Netanyahu and the members of his coalition claim the opposition leaders...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Sep 5, 2026, 5:42 PM

The face and the voice

TL;DR: Europe knows what to do with a Jewish face in a photograph: name it, mourn it, preserve it, learn from it. A Jewish voice is harder. It can disagree with the lesson, demand protection in the present, and...

Sep 5, 2026, 5:23 PM

When Foundational Concepts Become Questions

The Declaration of Independence of Israel deserves the same critical scrutiny. It is unquestionably one of the foundational texts in the history of Israel. Yet its foundational status cannot exempt it from historical analysis. The Declaration was drafted under...

Sheldon Kirshner

Sep 5, 2026, 5:20 PM

Ben Gvir’s Naive Palestinian Emigration Plan

Israel's national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, is flogging a dead horse. Ben Gvir, the leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party, is trying to revive a dangerous idea that has no chance of being implemented and, furthermore, would bring...

David Rosh Pina

Sep 5, 2026, 4:39 PM

Headbutting Forward

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The world's largest forehead study, and what it taught us about the future of human vision. From Human Potential Do you know who Cornel Amariei is? Have you heard that name before? Well, that’s who we’re going to talk about...

Sep 5, 2026, 3:40 PM

The Ogaden Question and a New Horn of Africa Security Test

A disputed troop movement reveals how clan geography, state sovereignty, and regional rivalry intersect. Across the Horn of Africa, clan geography rarely fits neatly inside state borders. The Ogaden—one of the region’s prominent Somali clan communities—live across Somalia, Ethiopia, and...

Sep 5, 2026, 3:34 PM

The Silence After Tartus

When I read Ehud Olmert’s recently published account of the operation that assassinated Muhammad Suleiman, the operational details were remarkable: Israeli naval commandos approaching his seaside residence near Tartus under cover of darkness, identifying one of Bashar al-Assad’s closest...

Sep 5, 2026, 1:04 PM

Democracies proscribe weapons sales to Israel

In 1947 and 1948, in advance of Israel declaring its independence, Israel found itself at a disadvantage militarily and demographically to its Arab neighbors. With only about 600,000 Jews residing in Mandatory Palestine, living under British rule since the...

Sep 5, 2026, 1:02 PM

The Decline of the World Is Visible on X

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

There was a time when Twitter seemed almost revolutionary in the best possible sense of the word. Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, it began with a remarkably simple idea: allow people...

Sep 5, 2026, 12:49 PM

Iran Has Every Condition for an Uprising. No Guarantees Yet.

In November 1944, Ancel Keys, a physiologist at the University of Minnesota advising the War Department, began the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. He needed to understand how prolonged hunger affects the human body and how to safely treat severe malnutrition. Thirty-six...

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