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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

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

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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

Left: Sara Netanyahu in a Channel 14 interview broadcast on August 31, 2026. Right: Yair Golan, October 14, 2023. (Screenshot/Channel 14; Kan TV screenshot)

Gil Mildar

When the PM’s wife accuses a hero

Sara Netanyahu not only attacks her husband’s opposition, she also answers questions in his name. It’s time she answered to the Israeli people

Image: ChatGPT

Judy Halper

You’re soldiers. She’s a paramedic. Get in the APC

The refusal to share space with a woman exposes a widening clash over religion, equality and the Israel we want to be

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

It takes a village – and the Peoples of Israel – to get me out of a dress

What do you do when you’re the only grown-up in the house?

Anti-Israel demonstrators march in Durban, South Africa, on August 31, 2001, toward the World Conference Against Racism. (Photo by AFP)AFP PHOTO (Photo by AFP)

Tova Herzl

25 years after Durban: The questions Israel must face

The 2001 UN racism conference descended into antisemitism, amplifying charges of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Can Israel still rebut them?

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Sep 3, 2026, 6:26 PM

Rome, the Pantheon, and Why Jerusalem Needs a Bigdei Kehuna Shop

We just got back from Rome, and I have to say, the city gives one a little déjà vu when you live in Israel. Not in a bad way. In the way where you keep doing double-takes, looking at...

Sep 3, 2026, 6:25 PM

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy clears the roads of antisemitism

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A few years ago and in the months following the October 7th attacks on Israel, I had the opportunity to meet U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Sean Duffy is an American politician, attorney, and former television personality who is...

Sep 3, 2026, 6:24 PM

Reflecting on Teshuva with Dr. King on My Mind

I had a couple hours in Atlanta before my flight home to Chicago this week. A colleague wanted to visit the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, so we went together and spent 90 minutes there on the...

Sofia Afonso Ferreira

Sep 3, 2026, 6:24 PM

Not Far-Right. Just Fed Up.

Demonstration in Madrid, September 2, 2026

Yesterday Spain took to the streets, and Pedro Sánchez’s government once again did the numbers the way one manages a budget — downwards. While the government delegation in Madrid insisted on 50,000 people in Plaza de Cibeles, the capital’s...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Sep 3, 2026, 6:22 PM

‘That Could Never Happen to Me’ (Nitzavim-Vayelech)

"Accident" (AI image by author)

“A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.” –Demosthenes There is a certain uneasy curiosity in the suffering of others. One of the most familiar examples is the...

Sep 3, 2026, 6:22 PM

White Christian Nationalism: When Nation Becomes a Theological Category

White Theology and White Power X The theology of the oppressor does not ordinarily announce itself as a theology of domination. As we have seen, power can shape interpretation by making its own location appear normal, universal, or invisible. White...

Nestor Daniel Scherman

Sep 3, 2026, 6:21 PM

How Many Jews Does It Take to Settle an Antisemitism Charge?

This article began, somewhat unexpectedly, with my morning reading of the Argentine newspaper La Nación. A headline caught my attention: “Mark Ruffalo received the support of more than 180 Jewish figures after being accused of antisemitism.” I read the article, but...

Nassir Hussein Kahin

Sep 3, 2026, 6:20 PM

The New Strategic Encirclement Around Somaliland: From Aden to South Somalia

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The reported Houthi-al-Shabaab radar plan clearly does show how the Iran war, maritime insecurity, recognition of Somaliland, and anti-Israel politics are converging around Berbera

Sep 3, 2026, 6:19 PM

When will the Iranian Regime Fall?

The man who escaped Tehran gives the regime months, not years

Sep 3, 2026, 6:18 PM

Iran’s Proxy Empire Comes Apart

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/).

Tehran built a regional strategy around armed partnerships. Now its greatest legacy may be forces it can no longer fully control.

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