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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 3, 2026, 10:58 PM

Iran Tightens the Noose: Kuwait Must Choose Israel

Kuwait stands on the precipice of an avoidable catastrophe that Western weapons cannot avert. For decades, bloated defense procurement has yielded an armed force optimized for twentieth-century desert tank warfare, leaving the nation blind to twenty-first-century gray-zone coercion. Squandering...

Jaclyn S. Clark

Sep 5, 2026, 10:08 AM

George Clooney defended a right nobody threatened

Calling speech antisemitic isn’t censorship. As a federal judge just made clear, it’s an opinion — and the answer to an opinion is more speech

Daphne Lazar Price

Sep 3, 2026, 6:42 PM

What Gloria Steinem taught this Orthodox feminist

Gloria Steinem at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 7, 2016 (CC, Lorie Shaull via Wikimedia Commons)

Her questions about power, equality and who gets a voice gave me a way to challenge observant Judaism from within — without asking me to abandon it

Katie Cunningham

Sep 2, 2026, 5:02 AM

‘Cunningham? That doesn’t sound very Jewish’

What does it mean to stand with the Jewish people even though I am not Jewish — and why is that responsibility mine, too?

Sep 4, 2026, 2:49 PM

To Michigan AG Nessel and liberal Jews everywhere: Jewish survival isn’t immoral

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel pauses during an interview with The Associated Press, November 21, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

While right and left disagree about what a value even is, let alone which of them are important, we Jews remember our timeless Jewish covenant (Nitzavim)

Sep 1, 2026, 6:10 AM

Dana Nessel, Who Gave You the Right to Volunteer My Survival?

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A Sacramento rabbi has a message for Michigan’s Jewish attorney general: Jews have heard the “greater good” argument before. History has taught us what can happen when we are told that our safety—and even our survival—must come second. Dear Attorney...

Hephzibah Rudofsky

Sep 6, 2026, 1:06 PM

‘I hope that next year we will be in better circumstances’

A Rosh Hashanah card made by 8-year-old Zahava Kanarek in the Westerbork transit camp, 1943 (Courtesy of the author)

The Rosh Hashanah card my mother made in a Nazi transit camp is a simple object filled with hope – and unanswered questions

Sep 7, 2026, 1:35 PM

Tehran’s Biggest Enemy May Be Inside Iran

Close-up view of Middle East map highlighting countries and borders, as from Pexels website (URL is https://www.pexels.com/photo/middle-eastern-countries-in-a-world-map-8828624/).

For decades, Iran sought security by pushing conflict beyond its borders, using missiles, militias, and proxies to impose costs on its adversaries while insulating the Islamic Republic from direct pressure. That logic is now under strain. Protests, growing armed...

Sep 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

A Conversation Overheard in a Tel Aviv Café

A Conversation Overheard in a Tel Aviv Café Israel, a Jewish State and a Democracy: I had no intention of listening to their conversation. They were sitting at the next table in a Tel Aviv café, the kind of place where people...

Aug 31, 2026, 7:13 PM

You’re soldiers. She’s a paramedic. Get in the APC

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The refusal to share space with a woman exposes a widening clash over religion, equality and the Israel we want to be

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