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May 20, 2025, 3:42 PM

How Far Can American Jews Balance Dual Loyalty?

For most American Jews, loving Israel and being loyal Americans isn’t a contradiction, but part of who they are. A study posted in 2024 by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that “56% of all respondents … agreed with the...

May 20, 2025, 5:48 AM

Truth, Heroes, and a Seemingly Never-Ending War

Living in a country at war for 19 months feels like running a grueling marathon where every day in the wee hours of the morning, a tiny, malevolent gremlin emerges crouched from under a rock to surreptitiously extend the...

May 20, 2025, 5:44 AM

A Reminder of Gazan ‘Culture’

I rewatched this video for some perspective regarding the current stage of the war: I advise anyone with an interest in the conflict to do so as well. I have had conversations with people in the last few days who...

Jonathan Zausmer

May 15, 2025, 10:29 PM

The Great Trump Dump

If you are one of the laggers in following this fast moving dynamic of the Middle East, here’s the news. Trump and Bibi are no longer BFF. You may need to research a few social media terms and acronyms...

Yardena Schwartz

May 15, 2025, 10:28 PM

When will Netanyahu heed the cries of the hostages?

In late October 2023, I was sitting shiva at the home of Maurice Shnaider, whose sister and brother-in-law were murdered on October 7th, when he said something I would come to hear from many relatives of Israeli hostages. “We have...

Aron Schoenfeld

May 15, 2025, 2:38 PM

From the Depths of Darkness to the Light of Life – A Week of Heartbreak and Hope

This week, our hearts swelled with emotion as we witnessed a miracle: Edan Alexander came home. After 584 days of unspeakable suffering, shackled, caged, and hooded like an animal by Hamas terrorists, Edan returned to his family, to his...

May 15, 2025, 1:20 PM

A 'Second Passover' for Edan Alexander

Released hostage Edan Alexander embraces his grandmother at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, May 12, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Following the release of Edan Alexander on Monday, his grandmother appeared on Israeli television and, with joy and emotion, noted that his freedom came on Pesach Sheni—the "Second Passover." To understand the depth and poignancy of her comment, we...

May 14, 2025, 4:42 PM

Is your parachute in good working order?

Twenty-one years ago, Edan Alexander’s parents made a decision that likely saved their son’s life. When he was 2 months old, they moved to the US having no idea at that moment that Edan’s American passport would one day...

Lori Silberman Brauner

May 14, 2025, 8:13 AM

Celebrating a hometown hero’s return — and waiting for the 58 left behind

Along with hundreds of people from all segments of the Bergen County, New Jersey, Jewish community, I was privileged to to take part in the watch party yesterday for newly freed Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander in his hometown of...

May 13, 2025, 3:52 PM

Edan’s pain, Qatar’s PR

When a hostage becomes a stage prop for the state that funded his cage. Hostage soldier Edan Alexander seen in a propaganda video released by the Hamas terror group on April 12, 2025. (Courtesy)

After 584 days in hell, the freed captive is invited to go and thank the very regime that funded, sheltered, and protected his captors

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