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Abel Mordechai Bibliowicz

Jan 14, 2025, 6:53 PM

No, Zionism is not colonialism

During the last decades the anti-colonial narrative, popular among the academic and political left, has been appropriated into the Palestinian anti-Zionist polemic. Following October 7th, pro-Palestinian activists and post-colonial academics erupted in a jubilation born out of misidentifying Hamas’...

May 19, 2025, 4:44 PM

They have ears but do not hear

Yuval Raphael from Israel holds her countries flag onstage during the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Switzerland, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (AP/Martin Meissner)

The gap between the public and the jury isn’t a matter of bad judgment. It is a symptom of a deep crisis of representation

May 20, 2025, 4:49 PM

Why Israel is primed to make trillions in applied AI

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The technology is a perfect fit for a country that blends AI expertise and engineering experience to turn problems into solutions

May 18, 2025, 4:34 PM

Eurovision’s foreign policy lessons for Israel

Top: Yuval Raphael from Israel performs the song 'New Day Will Rise' during the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, in Basel, Switzerland, May 17, 2025. (Screenshot video courtesy of KAN/EBU). Below: US President Donald Trump, fifth left, with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, fourth right, United Arab Emirates Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, second right, Bahrain's Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, left, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, third left, Kuwait's Crown Prince Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, second left, Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, right, during the GCC Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

If we don't start engaging constructively with President Trump and leaders around the world, we will indeed 'cry alone'

May 17, 2025, 3:24 PM

The day after Gaza: Israel must not inherit the ruins

War in Gaza

We are a nation that has already learned, too many times, what happens when we inherit what we never intended to own

Elchanan Poupko

May 15, 2025, 7:32 PM

My country for a chocolate babka

With boutique activism, Zionists are boxing themselves into too-private spaces and forfeiting the public square. It's endangering Israel

May 18, 2025, 4:35 PM

Israeli demonstrators are seen through Israel's national flag during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Caesarea, Israel, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Our tradition never taught us to mistake power for righteousness. The Torah calls not for blind allegiance, but for moral accounting.

May 15, 2025, 4:15 PM

It’s Trump’s Middle East now

US President Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman before posing for a family picture with Gulf leaders during a gathering of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh on May 14, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Israel's leaders have failed to understand who they're dealing with: The US president sees Netanyahu as an obstacle to progress

May 14, 2025, 11:02 PM

Outraged at raids targeting circumcision? Take a step back

Amid the understandable anxiety, we should also reflect on a more fundamental question: What rights do children have in all of this?

Haviva Ner-David

May 18, 2025, 4:50 PM

God of war and peace: A soldier’s prayer

(Nadav Leibovitz)

He marked the shift from reservist to civilian at the Hannaton mikveh, saying: 'May these waters cleanse my thoughts from background noise and bring peace'

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