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May 17, 2026, 6:15 PM
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Judaism without ethics is not Judaism
Jewish identity is not supposed to be about holding onto lifestyle traditions; rather, it holds us accountable for the way we conduct ourselves among others (Shavuot)
Apr 24, 2026, 5:52 PM
Not Left or Right—What Kind of Thinking Can Govern?
There are moments in politics when in spite of the arguments being loud and the competition is real, the disagreement is thinner than it appears. Rival camps fight for power, but they operate within the same basic assumptions. The debate...
Apr 10, 2026, 6:42 AM
When Survival Is Called Victory
A familiar commentary is taking shape in the wake of recent wars in the United States and Israel. The wars did not achieve their stated aims. The threats were not eliminated. From this, a further conclusion is often drawn,...
Apr 5, 2026, 10:31 PM
The war on Iran and its critics
History does not repeat. No moment is a carbon copy of another. Yet history does recur—not in events, but in situations that test judgment in similar ways. Certain patterns return: a rising threat, delayed recognition, indirect confrontation—and above all, the problem...
Mar 30, 2026, 3:54 PM
The Wrong Century for Understanding War
Four weeks into a war, we are already being told what it means. This, in itself, should give us pause. In a recent analysis in the New York Times, Yonatan Touval ( argues that the unfolding US-Israeli conflict with Iran reveals...
Mar 26, 2026, 9:25 PM
Visibility Without Responsibility
In a recent article, Spanish writer Pilar Rahola denounced what she described as the double standards of prominent cultural and political figures—individuals who speak loudly in the name of justice in some cases, and remain silent in others (see...
Mar 18, 2026, 5:08 AM
When We Start the Story in the Middle, We Misunderstand the Threat
In a 2022 televised interview, Naftali Bennett, then Prime Minister of Israel, challenged his interviewer, Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international anchor, with a pointed observation: “There you go again, starting the story in the middle.” The remark captured more than...
Mar 12, 2026, 3:05 PM
History is intelligible only in retrospect
Looking backward, events appear almost inevitable. Causes line up neatly, consequences seem logically connected, and historians can draw arrows from one development to the next. The narrative becomes intelligible. Yet, the path of history is not obvious while it unfolds....
Mar 6, 2026, 6:31 AM
Why Argentina Is the Outlier in the World’s Reaction to Iran
When the United States and Israel struck Iranian targets, much of the world reacted with caution or criticism. Governments across Latin America called for restraint, warned against escalation, and emphasized diplomacy. Yet one country responded differently. Argentina—located thousands of...
Mar 3, 2026, 7:14 PM
How Israel Changed the World (Again)
The first time the Jewish people changed the world, they did it without an army, without a state, without territory. They did it with a book. The Hebrew Bible — the Tanakh — introduced something no empire had articulated with...
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Moshe Pitchon is a rabbi, philosopher, and public intellectual focused on Jewish ethics, responsibility, and civilizational questions in the 21st century. He is the founder of 21stCenturyJudaism and writes in multiple languages.
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