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Aug 18, 2026, 3:37 PM

How to keep US-Israeli relations from going off the cliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks, as US President Donald Trump looks on during a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, July 7, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/ Getty Images/ AFP)

A generational shift is threatening decades of bipartisan support for Israel. The next government must change course before the damage becomes irreversible

Aug 18, 2026, 10:28 AM

I’m a teacher and a parent. When is a strike one too many?

Children return to school in Rishon LeZion following a ceasefire in the war with Iran, April 9, 2026. (Jonathan Shaul/Flash90)

Caught between students' need for stability and teachers' need for safety and fair working conditions, I wonder if another labor dispute will solve the problems in our schools

Steven C. Wernick

Aug 17, 2026, 10:35 PM

A rabbi and a shofar walk into a church…

After October 7, an unlikely friendship across a theological divide became a living lesson in what it means to show up for one another

Aug 17, 2026, 2:42 PM

Here’s how we drove a toxic propaganda channel off public screens

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Channel 14’s The Patriots, October 18, 2025. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Our campaign got public institutions to replace Channel 14 broadcasts with neutral programming. It's a tactic pro-democracy activists can use anywhere

Robert S. Miller

Aug 17, 2026, 11:31 AM

I invest in Portland. Must I pass a test on Israel?

A campaign to investigate Zionist ‘complicity’ could turn ordinary economic participation into a test of political loyalty

Aug 16, 2026, 2:32 PM

Eating out is political. So is rewriting Israeli food history

The 'balaboosta' of New York eatery Balaboosta, Chef Einat Admony, 2014. (Photo courtesy of Einat Admony)

New York Magazine's story about identity in the Middle Eastern dining scene has a glaring blind spot: as one restaurant put it, 'the land mass currently called Israel'

Jaclyn S. Clark

Aug 16, 2026, 7:06 AM

Yes, James Fishback will probably lose. Make sure it’s humiliating.

A blowout against the 'goyslop' candidate could make Florida a dead end for his brand of politics

Aug 15, 2026, 2:30 PM

The next global trade map could run through Israel — or around it

Backdropped by an LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) tanker, a Yemeni soldier sails in waters north of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in Mokha, Yemen, April 6, 2026 (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)

War froze a plan to connect India, the Gulf and Europe through Haifa just as attacks on shipping made it more vital. Israel must act now to keep itself on the route

Aug 15, 2026, 2:25 PM

83 years since the Bialystok Ghetto Revolt: We are still here

Bialystok Ghetto (Youtube screenshot via World Jewish Congress)

My grandparents defied the Nazis and survived to pass a message of courage and pride from one generation to the next

Aug 15, 2026, 2:13 PM

Can Jared Kushner get Hamas disarmament moving?

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's adviser and son-in-law, speaks with CBS's Lesley Stahl (not pictured) on 60 Minutes, in an interview aired on October 19, 2025. (Screenshot/CBS 60 Minutes)

In a trip to the Mideast this week, the US envoy must put forward practical steps to keep the Gaza ceasefire from unraveling

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