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Chairman of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan at the memorial ceremony in the Ponary forest, remembering the over 200,000 Lithuanian Jews brutally murdered during the Holocaust, at this very site. (X, formerly Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Daring Dani Dayan and the complicity of Lithuanians in the Holocaust

The locals may never own what they did, but Yad Vashem’s chairman spoke truth to power, calling out their role in eliminating a vibrant Jewish world

Ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh comfort a young woman upon arriving to Kornidzor in Syunik region, Armenia, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. Some 42,500 people, or about 35% of Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenian population, had left for neighboring Armenia as of Wednesday morning, according to Armenian authorities. Hours-long traffic jams were reported on Tuesday on the road linking Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia. (AP Photo/Vasily Krestyaninov)

Avidan Freedman

This kosher certificate for Azerbaijan is treif

Those rabbis who voiced support for a regime using starvation as a weapon of war have desecrated Jewish values

Jews pray while activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, September 25, 2023. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz

Tel Aviv’s Yom Kippur struggle could have been avoided

Instead, it highlighted the harm this government is wreaking, not just on Israel’s democracy, but on its Jewish character

Activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer event in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, September 25, 2023. (Itai Ron/ Flash90)

Yossi Klein Halevi

The state of our brokenness

Something elemental has been desecrated in our shared Israeliness, and Yom Kippur has again forced us to face ourselves

US President Joe Biden, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 20, 2023. (Avi Ohayon, GPO)

Yes to a Saudi deal, no to Netanyahu

The Opposition can support normalization from outside the government – joining the Coalition to rescue the PM would be folly

Illustrative: People ride bicycles, walk and gather on the empty streets in Tel Aviv, on the eve of Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv. September 24, 2023. (Omer Fichman/Flash 90)

There was magic too: Yom Kippur, Tel Aviv, 5784

In Habima Square, hundreds joined a hastily organized Ne’ila prayer service with no divisions, just astonishment

Golda Meir’s filtration system

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Chairman of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan at the memorial ceremony in the Ponary forest, remembering the over 200,000 Lithuanian Jews brutally murdered during the Holocaust, at this very site. (X, formerly Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

The locals may never own what they did, but Yad Vashem's chairman spoke truth to power, calling out their role in eliminating a vibrant Jewish world

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