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Gabriella Jacobs

Jun 17, 2026, 12:48 PM

The real Hunger Games take place in Israeli supermarkets

Which is the best supermarket for an olah on a budget? This is a topic on which I have, through extensive and occasionally traumatic experimentation, become something of an expert. Throughout my time here I've cycled through Shufersal (online and...

Jun 17, 2026, 12:43 PM

Rav Papa Kanaani™: A Luxury Brand Inspired by the Kanaani Cat

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When people think of fashion brands inspired by animals, they often think of jaguars, pumas, horses, or crocodiles. Few would imagine that one of the world’s rarest cat breeds could become the inspiration for a luxury headwear concept. Yet that...

Jun 17, 2026, 12:41 PM

Rebrewing of Abrahamic Texts that are Beyond Completion

The Babylonian Talmud is a work beyond completion, which may help to explain why God invented not just Tosafot, but Aharonim, who weren’t born in time to be called Rishon, great rabbis who attempted to unravel the Gemara’s Gordian knot. Kafka tried to unravel it...

Jun 17, 2026, 12:39 PM

Jew and Gentile Alike: Why Black and Jewish Democrats Need Each Other Now

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ended his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, with these words: “Let freedom ring . . . When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it...

Jun 17, 2026, 12:34 PM

‘The Wife Of’

From immigrant to diplomat in 39 years (Courtesy)

When my husband was appointed ambassador to Japan, I wasn't about to become a silent, smiling diplomatic spouse

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Jun 17, 2026, 12:31 PM

I’m alive. My son’s alive. My neighbor isn’t. And none of us is OK

I went back inside my Old City home to grab my keys and the terrible, hollow sound of a gas explosion ripped through our courtyard

Jun 17, 2026, 12:21 PM

Israel Won the War Now It’s Losing the Peace

For decades, Israeli leaders argued that the greatest threat facing the Jewish state was a nuclear Iran. Then came the two wars. For 12 days in June 2025 and between February and May 2026, Israel demonstrated military capabilities that...

Jun 17, 2026, 12:14 PM

Beijing, Pyongyang, Tehran, Geneva, and G7: Is Nuclear Non-Proliferation Back?

Trump, Xi, Kim and the Nuclear Question: Is a Broader Strategic Dialogue Emerging? At the conclusion of President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing and his announcement on May 18 that the planned strike on Iran had been canceled, a series...

Eugene J. Levin

Jun 17, 2026, 11:06 AM

Lithuania Commemorates the Genocide It Refuses to Name

How Lithuania’s public broadcaster acknowledges the destruction of Lithuanian Jewry while erasing Lithuanian participation from the sentence

Yitzhak Irving Kalet

Jun 17, 2026, 10:59 AM

ISRAEL-16 June 2026 To get right to the point, Mr. Trump, President of the United States of America, Israel exists and has existed for almost eighty years because of the sacrifices of its young and not so young soldiers in...

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