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Jun 21, 2026, 1:14 PM

Why So Many Israelis Feel the Table Has Suddenly Turned

For the past several days, I've been receiving variations of the same question from readers. Not about a specific Hezbollah attack. Not about a specific statement from Washington. Not even about the details of the latest U.S.-Iran negotiations. The question is much simpler: How...

Feb 18, 2026, 10:59 PM

Titanium Dispute Abroad Raises Strategic Questions for Israel and Gulf Partners

A complex legal dispute unfolding in a US federal court as well as in Swiss jurisdiction over the global titanium trade is beginning to intersect with broader regional dynamics - including Israel’s growing economic alignment with Bahrain and the...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 21, 2026, 7:11 AM

Bibi: The Time Has Come

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to the courtroom at the Distrcit court in Tel Aviv, before the start of his testimony in the trial against him, October 28, 2025. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** משפט
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Bibi, the time has come. From Boston lecture halls to the United Nations podium, you built your political career by denouncing bad Iran deals. You rightly warned that appeasement does not moderate terrorist regimes—it strengthens them. If you now quietly...

Jun 10, 2026, 8:00 AM

An apology from your American Jewish parents

Manhattan, NY, May 3, 2024 (iStock / Florida Chuck)

We raised you in exile to succeed in the culture of our oppressors. Now we need you to do the one thing we never taught you: defy us

Jun 18, 2026, 4:08 PM

Now it’s urgent: Israel must rebuild support among Democrats

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The Iran deal exposes the risks of Netanyahu's decision to tie Israel's fortunes ever more closely to one party and one leader

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jun 18, 2026, 10:42 PM

Israel was not betrayed – it was repriced

From exception to liability: the repricing of Israel in American strategic calculation. (Illustration for Yochanan Schimmelpfennig’s essay, Israel Was Not Betrayed. It Was Repriced.)

Donald Trump didn't abandon Israel, he revealed that the alliance was always conditional, and that the bill for that conditionality has now come due

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

Saundra Sterling Epstein

Jun 20, 2026, 1:57 PM

I saw Orthodox acceptance of LGBTQ Jews grow. Now it’s evaporating

(JTA)

Rabbis and communities must stay committed to inclusion despite political and cultural pressure. If they don't, the results will be devastating

Jun 18, 2026, 3:30 PM

Despair is a mistake

A demonstrator lights a cigarette with a burning poster depicting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally in support of Iran's anti-government protests, in Holon, Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)

A message to a disillusioned Israel from Iranians who were trying to bring down a totalitarian regime with their bare hands

Jun 16, 2026, 8:47 AM

I spent a day trying to break the OU’s Torah AI

I got it to make a few errors, but where it got me was its propensity to plead ignorance rather than hallucinate falsehood. What other chatbot does that?!

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