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Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 21, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Lindsey Graham’s white whale

The late US senator thought Saudi-Israel normalization was within reach. He misread Netanyahu on Palestinian statehood

Illustrative: Israelis at a cafe in Tel Aviv, on May 18, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jamie Feder

Why this liberal New Yorker made aliyah

When I moved to Israel, some friends disappeared. Hundreds unfollowed me. But all that rejection made me more comfortable with who I am and what I believe

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Nurit Gil

The report card no one sees

In Israel, I learned to measure my children’s education not only by their grades, but also by how they navigate the country, cook a meal – and deal with war

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Magnus Torén

NAZA, moral certainty, and the question haunting me since October 8

The film’s explosive claims about civilian deaths in Gaza demand evidence, not mythology — and Jews everywhere should not be made defendants

9/11

Orly Lavi Travish

Between memory and history

My Hebrew students weren’t alive on September 11, 2001. If memory is to survive as more than a date in a textbook, I have to teach them the vocabulary to pass it on

At the 9/11 memorial on the west side of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on September 11, 2023, many civilians came to commemorate the US Department of Defense staff and rescue workers who were killed in a terrorist attack 22 years ago. (iStock)

Gayle Meyers

Rushing forward, seized with fear

Crises like the terror attacks of 9/11 summon us with the trumpet of bravery and the still, small voice of love, as we write our stories with our deeds (Rosh Hashanah)

President Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 8, 2026. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Isaac Herzog

A Rosh Hashanah message to the Jewish people

After all the pain and longing, the majestic notes of the shofar carry three calls that bring us into a better future

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Vincent James Hooper

Sep 15, 2026, 11:48 AM

The Van at Blackfriars

In June the Taub Center published its annual portrait of Israeli society and the numbers told a story that should have been impossible. High technology workers in Israel now earn nearly three times the average wage in the rest...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Sep 15, 2026, 11:47 AM

The seat at the table

TL;DR: The most misleading seat at the table is the one offered after the table has already been set. Jewish leaders can mistake access for influence, surrendering leverage while giving institutions legitimacy in return. The real question is not...

Sep 15, 2026, 11:45 AM

War at the Speed of Light

The battlefield of the 21st century unfolds at a speed where humans can no longer think. Are we handing over the keys to the machines that run our wars? In the operations rooms of modern warfare, time is the one...

Nassir Hussein Kahin

Sep 15, 2026, 11:42 AM

Irro Puts Berbera on the Table and Washington Must Decide

A HOASR geopolitical infographic illustrating President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro delivering his Hudson Institute keynote and participating in a fireside discussion in Washington. The artwork connects Berbera Port and airfield with Bab el-Mandeb, Gulf of Aden shipping lanes, maritime security and potential U.S.–Somaliland cooperation.

An Editorial Assessment of The Hudson Institute address and the strategic choices now facing Somaliland and the United States At Hudson Institute, Somaliland's president Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro transformed recognition from a historical appeal into an offer of security, access...

Sep 15, 2026, 11:36 AM

Becoming Israeli

It was just last week, on Rosh Hashanah, that I finally decided. A holiday that meant little to me growing up. As a diaspora Jew raised in Southern California, being Jewish never seemed very important. Sure, my mother was a Holocaust...

Sep 15, 2026, 11:19 AM

When Is a Traitor Not a Traitor?

For about twenty-five minutes at the Venice Film Festival, audiences stood for NAZA, a documentary made by the Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. The film, built around the anonymous testimony of 24 current or former Israeli military...

Nicholas Jagdeo

Sep 15, 2026, 11:18 AM

Everyone’s Self-Identity Counts – Except the Jews

Everyone's Identity Matters - Except the Jews

How important is your identity to you? What happens if someone tries to take your identity away from you - not just insult your identity, but claim it never belonged to you at all? How would you respond or...

Sep 15, 2026, 11:14 AM

The Mirror Turns

Legitimate Jewish concerns Black America should be willing to hear SERIES II — PART I For several years, I have asked Christians to confront Christianity's long contribution to anti-Judaism and antisemitism. I recently completed a book-length study of that history, serve...

Sep 15, 2026, 11:07 AM

Two States – and Then What?

There is a number in the latest Palestinian public-opinion poll that sounds wonderfully encouraging: 56%. That is the share of Palestinians who, according to one increasingly common reading, support a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders. Wonderful. Someone alert the...

Sep 15, 2026, 11:00 AM

Who Has the Right to Give Up Palestine? The Islamization of Sacred Jurisdiction

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What shifted was not who would win political control of Palestine but who could legitimately be said to have authority over Palestine in the first place. For much of the twentieth century, combatants framed their struggle in familiar political...

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