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Melissa Uchiyama

Oct 19, 2026, 6:24 PM

Hosting Guy: One Year of Remembrance and Freedom

It’s Tuesday morning. And there is a guest sleeping upstairs. A guest you should know, too. His name is Guy. It’s a common Israeli name–in fact, I show 24 Guys in my WhatsApp contacts. But it’s been precisely one year since...

Oct 16, 2026, 12:47 AM

Invest in love: An evening with Omer Shem Tov

Omer Shem Tov. (social media)

When the former hostage sets rage aside, he teaches the rest of us to refocus on the best of humanity and to internalize expectations of goodness

Oct 15, 2026, 10:30 AM

The Opposition: Demanded Surrender, Now Promising Victory

Photo montage: Gadi Eisenkot © Yahav Trudler / Yahav Studio; Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid © Avi Ohayon; Yair Golan © Shlomi Amsalem; Avigdor Liberman, US Department of Defense / Jette Carr (public domain). Images sourced from Wikimedia Commons, cropped and combined. Composite licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Original photographs licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and 4.0, as applicable.

Israel is in the final weeks of an election campaign, and the election propaganda machine is now in full swing. Old claims are being recycled, accusations made and records rewritten, while almost three years of war continue to be...

Prakash Bishunke

Oct 8, 2026, 3:50 PM

Nepal may have forgotten October 7. I cannot

Mourners and security personnel walk behind a truck carrying the coffin of Bipin Joshi, the slain Nepali hostage, during a funeral ceremony at his hometown in Kanchanpur on October 21, 2025. (Prakash Chandra Timilsena / AFP)

We young Nepalis came to Israel to learn how to farm. Three years later, our own country doesn't care about the losses we suffered there

Oct 8, 2026, 1:38 AM

I Will Come Back

Image Created by ChatGPT with GPT Image 2, 2026.

Three years after October 7, the man we waited for is the one now holding the memory of us all. “I will come back.” Those were the last words Eli Sharabi managed to shout to his daughters on the morning...

Oct 2, 2026, 6:29 AM

Treasure Trove: What Do We Do With Our Memory of This Ongoing Terrible Time?

Photograph by David Matlow.

I cannot throw these out. They are the blue ribbons handed out at the first rallies to save the hostages. They are the items purchased at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv to help fund the campaign to Bring Them Home. ...

Gina Friedlander

Aug 28, 2026, 6:33 AM

What’s Missing from the Settler Siege Story

I don't know about you, but I'm always relieved when Israel does NOT appear on the front pages of my newspapers. Or news feeds. Or newscasts. Chances are about 100 to one that if Israel is featured, it won't be...

Todd L. Pittinsky

Aug 27, 2026, 9:24 AM

Teach the Holocaust. Lose the Label

The word "genocide" was supposed to make evil unmistakable. Today, it does the opposite. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in to name the unthinkable—the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. Holocaust educators adopted it almost immediately as its organizing category, using...

Aug 10, 2026, 7:32 AM

What Does Peace Mean?

It was December 2024. I was rushing and click-clacking my heels in Downtown Miami with Mauricio Schneider, Bibas family uncle, while on the phone with another hostage family member who couldn't figure out how to get to our next...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 11, 2026, 1:27 PM

Hamas Disarms for Cameras, Kills for Power

The latest United Nations report on Gaza exposes the fraud at the center of every negotiation with Hamas. The terrorist group tells diplomats it may disarm while its own enforcers execute, maim, and beat Palestinians to preserve power. This...

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