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Palestinian children sit amid the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on July 10, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)

Donniel Hartman

Israel must defend itself — without defending the indefensible

Rejecting false accusations against Israel must not mean denying its real moral failures. To reclaim our voice, we need to learn to do both

Avigdor Lieberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset, July 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dan Illouz

October 7th could have been prevented

Very few people in Israeli politics can say that had they been prime minister, October 7th would not have happened. Avigdor Liberman can

Asaf Rajuan pumps his fist in the air, informing passengers of the success in subduing the terrorist copilot and taking control of flydubai's Flight 1073. (Screencapture, social media)

Alan Abrams

The best educational system in the world — at 34,000 feet

The passengers who saved Flight 1073 showed an Israeli talent for acting fast and working together — a hidden curriculum learned from childhood

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

PALMAR rescue in the rain. (Photo ©️ Tuvia Book, 2026)

Tuvia Book

October 7: What I wrote then, and what I know now

Three years later, I look back at Kfar Aza and Be’eri, the soldiers beside me, and what this war has taught me about courage, loss and who we are

(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?

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Russell F. Robinson

Oct 6, 2026, 12:09 AM

Israel’s Best Memorial Is a Future

Youngsters in Israel's South dream of tomorrow.

Three years after October 7, we carry the names of those we lost. The students who will never graduate. The couples who will never wed. The children whose laughter should still be filling their homes. We cannot give them the...

Julian Ungar-Sargon

Oct 6, 2026, 12:05 AM

Finchley Central Synagogue, c. 1962–64 You cannot tune a shofar. No peg, no reed, no valve, no A for the orchestra to find. The ram grew it the way he grew, curled around his own stubbornness, and whatever pitch was in the bone is the pitch...

Oct 6, 2026, 12:04 AM

Why Gerald McDermott Matters: A Guide to Israel, Zionism, the Jewish People

Gerald McDermott is a friend of mine, and I believe he is the best theologian alive today writing on the subject of Israel, Zionism, the Jewish people, and the Bible. He has done more than anyone I know of...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:58 PM

October 7: Israel’s Darkest Day & the Dreams of Nepali Youth.

Some dates are more than just entries in the pages of history. They are dates that change the lives of thousands of families forever. October 7, 2023, was one such day for Israel, a day that will never be...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:50 PM

Three lies about U.S. support for Israel

Their growing acceptance fuels conspiracy theories and threatens decades of sound U.S. policy As we mark the third anniversary of Hamas' October 7 attack against Israel and await U.S. and Israeli elections, Vice President J.D. Vance's recent claim that President...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:40 PM

We Call Them Heroes. Why Are They Carrying the Trauma Alone?

What Prof. Chen Kugel’s PTSD diagnosis reveals about the hidden cost of October 7 for Israel’s frontline helpers. They are not made of iron. Three years after October 7, Prof. Chen Kugel, director of Israel’s National Center of Forensic Medicine at...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:39 PM

Between 9/11 and 10/7

How terrorism has evolved and become more vicious and personal since 2001 The 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks compelled the world to remember one of history’s worst terrorist atrocities, an event that fundamentally altered the Middle East and set...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:36 PM

Miracles Within and Without

I saw a baby inside my baby, Who is a baby no longer, Now over two decades since seeing her herself In that same shadow-water-world on the screen. “Here is the heart,” said the doctor with the ultrasound probe, Outlining two tiny ventricles in...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:35 PM

On the last day of our interfaith trip to Israel, As Roger, Mark and I headed down the Rabin Highway from our hotel in Pik’in, in northern Israel towards Ben Gurion Airport, we passed an exit sign, with an...

Michel M.J. Shore

Oct 5, 2026, 11:31 PM

Our Words in Daily Life and Before an Election

Our words in daily life and before an election Must be measured and put through thirteen filters, With a space between two thoughts, words and deeds, As each utterance is recorded in the annals of being. The gallery of portraits and album of...

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