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Apr 12, 2022, 5:50 PM

Some light at the end of the tunnel

Once the only city with a Jewish Majority in the Islamic world, on Friday night March 25 we were the only Jews in Essaouira. Or were we? Who was gathered for Kabbalat Shabbat, in the elegant little Synagogue of...

Jun 3, 2020, 8:14 AM

‘Declare a state of moral emergency’

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself; it is more universal, more contagious, more dangerous

Aug 24, 2017, 3:20 PM

An eclipse of the White House

The sun's corona is visible as the moon passes in front of the sun during a total solar eclipse at Big Summit Prairie ranch in Oregon's Ochoco National Forest near the city of Mitchell on August 21, 2017. (Robyn Beck/AFP)

President Trump has made clear that we are in an ultimate battle of contending ideas

May 23, 2017, 3:50 PM

What happens when you heed Ben-Gurion’s call to fight for Israel -- and why winning takes longer than six days

Oct 30, 2015, 2:56 AM

A Marshall Plan for Israel/Palestine

Consider what might be if West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem residents saw real chances for economic prosperity

Dec 15, 2012, 5:47 PM

Morocco comes to Israel

This past summer, a remarkable and courageous group of 16 young Moroccans, all Muslim, came to Jerusalem to attend the annual “Tomorrow” Conference sponsored by the President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres. They were the first group...

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Peter A. Geffen is Founder and President of The KIVUNIM Institute – Building World Consciousness, and Founder of The Abraham Joshua Heschel School in NYC.