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Feb 6, 2026, 6:20 PM

Judaism Is Not a Religion — and Why That Matters

Judaism is usually grouped with Christianity and Islam as a religion. Yet its structure, history, and understanding of belonging tell a different story—one that challenges the category itself. Judaism is commonly classified as a religion in textbooks, legal frameworks, and...

Oct 11, 2025, 3:32 PM

A Quranic Testimony to the Children of Israel

In the name of الله (Allāh), the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. This analysis seeks to reconcile the Quranic narrative concerning the Children of Israel, acknowledging the profound tension between the theme of their transgression and the reality of their...

Sep 27, 2025, 8:48 PM

Riding the Hamas Express

For many on the global left, Hamas still appears as the natural expression of Palestinian resistance — a movement born from oppression and directed toward liberation. Many Palestinians themselves embraced it, fully aware of its charter and its rejection...

Sep 26, 2025, 6:54 PM

A Nation Forged in Storm

We stand today at a precipice, not merely of a conflict, but of a historical moment that will define the next century. We have been tested by fire, by treachery, and by the cold indifference of a world often...

Mar 5, 2024, 12:54 AM

The people of the ‘center’

Danny Johananoff
Jerusalem from a roof

You can be on the right, you can be on the left, or anywhere between these two poles on a line… But suddenly, in the middle of our daily dose of horrors, something comes into my mind: what about...

Mar 2, 2021, 8:56 PM

The power of commitment

As I watch in horror the results of the Impeachment trial and realizing this "closure" will bring no closure at all to one of the most infamous periods of our moral lives, I say to myself: "We built this...

Feb 3, 2021, 10:43 PM

At home, and still alienated.

The world around us is territory of migrations. It is free for the animals and winds, for the tides and stars and for water and fire. For us, inserted in a culture, home is where our culture can be...

Apr 12, 2019, 10:02 PM

“We are here because you were there”

When we analyze a social outcome, we conclude through a series of “decisions”. Even though we do not have all available information, we know that something happened, and make attributions around it, as why it happened and accommodate to that...

Sep 19, 2018, 2:11 PM

What about ”Nineveh” ?

Many questions started to open as I hear of the murder of Ari Fuld e”l. A controversial character, very much loved by the extreme right. And there is indeed a sense of “right-fullness” in people that share Ari’s vision....

Aug 6, 2018, 6:38 AM

The ‘Israeli’ Palestinians. Who are they?

Almost non public information exists referring to the Palestinian Arabs that were made Israeli citizens in 1948. A paradoxical situation under a military administration, that made them simultaneously "citizens of a liberal nation-state and subjects of colonial administration" in...

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About Me

Alex is a Clinical Psychologist, a peace worker, a writer, a music composer and artist. She has lived in New York, England, Argentina, Italy, Amsterdam and the Middle East.