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May 11, 2021, 6:08 PM

Is there an Iron Dome for truth?

While Hamas is firing wave after wave of deadly rockets into Israeli territory, news consumers around the world are vulnerable to the risk of the false media narrative that inevitably arises whenever Israel is in the headlines. In my new...

Apr 22, 2021, 11:33 PM

The New York Times Is Burying Sarah Halimi

Almost 80 years ago, the New York Times ran on its front page a story about the death of a man from Iceland. His name was Thordur Sigursson. He was 22 years old. He died by a bullet to...

Sep 23, 2020, 11:04 AM

Over the past few weeks, Israelis have watched as the country has gone from a staggeringly high coronavirus case number, around 2,000 just a few weeks ago, to a debilitating, raise-the-surrender-flag number of over 6,000 today. Israel now boasts...

Jul 27, 2020, 3:05 PM

How Israeli Novelist Eshkol Nevo Found Creativity in Coronavirus

Eshkol Nevo is one of Israel's leading contemporary novelists. His body of work includes Three Floors Up, Neuland, and The Last Interview, which comes out this fall in English. As part of my interview series, The Meaning Creators, I...

Jul 13, 2020, 11:23 AM

American Jews are painfully divided

Someone recently told me, in dead seriousness, they "don't believe in" microwaves. Not long after, someone else told me they "don't believe in" vaccines. In both cases, I had the same response: nod vacantly and take a healthy step...

May 31, 2020, 5:38 PM

American Nightmare

American is convulsed by violence. The death of a black man in Minneapolis after a brutal and sickening police assault might have been the spark. But the conflagration is much wider. And yet—bizarrely—it comes as no surprise. What we once...

May 17, 2020, 9:29 PM

How Meaning Helped Israel Beat Coronavirus

One of the stranger side-effects (so to speak) of the coronavirus pandemic is that big, sophisticated and wealthy nations like the US, UK, Italy and France have gotten hammered while the small, far less wealthy and generally much more...

Mar 15, 2020, 10:46 AM

What’s Corona Zionism?

In his historic address Saturday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reminded us the country has been preempted much of the world in protective measures against. While controversial, these actions have most likely slowed the spread of coronavirus enough to...

Mar 8, 2020, 7:02 PM

My Grandmother The Fighter

My grandmother Eve (z"l) passed away last week. A shtetl Jew from Lithuania, she fled with her family to the wide veld of South Africa. Maybe she always was who she was, or maybe she was young enough for...

Dec 30, 2019, 2:44 PM

Time’s up for American Jews

At this time, Jews need to stand tall with the expectation that racially and religiously-motivated violence is now a part of life

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About Me

Ashley Rindsberg is an author, essayist and freelance journalist. In 2010, Rindsberg traveled to Nicaragua to investigate the disappearance and death of his best friend, an experience that inspired his novel, He Falls Alone. Rindsberg is also author of The Gray Lady Winked, a work of non-fiction which looks at how the New York Times’s reporting shapes the world.

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