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Aug 16, 2026, 7:58 PM

Can We Reclaim the Jewish Story?

As we enter Elul and mark the yahrzeit of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, I find myself thinking about resilience. A recent Jerusalem Post reflection by Jeffrey Kahn on Israeli resilience immediately inspired me. Among the questions he raises, two...

Itzchak Evan-Shayish

Aug 14, 2026, 6:10 PM

The Torah of Eden: Rav Kook zt’l’s 91’st Yahrzeit

“The news reaches me from a distant world full of illuminations, The suns there are as broad as the ocean, The stars are like the light of our sun on the face of the sapphire stone…. Like dew full of...

Aug 10, 2026, 8:17 AM

Israel Is Surrounded Today. Are You Aware of What Comes Next?

Since October 2023, Israel has fought on six fronts: Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Five of them were not countries in any useful sense. They were militias holding ground inside countries, armed and paid from the same...

Jul 27, 2026, 12:41 PM

Judaism is Not a Religion

It has been awhile since I took to these pages. This past March the Ayatollah Kohmeni sent ballistic missiles to Israel which unfortunately kept us from attending our grandson’s bar-mitzvah in America. My beautiful wife and I took the...

Jul 22, 2026, 6:12 AM

How Do We Make Sure We Never Lose the Land Again?

This question hit home when I attended the recent Zohar Conference in Tel Aviv. During one of the sessions, Yael Leibowitz posed this as the fundamental question, and every other question is secondary. "How do we make sure we never...

Marc J. Rosenstein

Jul 10, 2026, 8:41 AM

The Jewish Power Blog: Though He Tarry

The Talmud relates that Rabbi Joshua ben Levi one day ran into Elijah (which he is said to have done occasionally), and asked him when the messiah would come. Elijah told him to go ask the messiah himself, and...

Richard Diamond

Jul 1, 2026, 8:14 PM

What the Torah’s Animal Laws Were Always Pointing Toward

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Here is a paradox that Jewish tradition has lived with for centuries without fully confronting it. The Torah mandated animal sacrifice as the center of Israelite religious life for a thousand years. An entire tribe — the Levites — existed...

May 10, 2026, 4:25 PM

What the Abraham Accords Mean for India

Conceptual illustration: The flags of India, Israel, and Gulf nations appear above a symbolic diplomatic handshake, representing the growing strategic, economic, and geopolitical impact of the Abraham Accords on India and the wider Middle East. Image: AI-generated using OpenAI tools (Free for commercial use).

When the Abraham Accords were signed in 2020, the global conversation predictably fixated on Israel and the Arab states directly involved. The agreement between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain was hailed as a historic Middle East breakthrough....

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Mar 23, 2026, 12:46 PM

The Enemy as Glue

The gravest danger in this war may not be defeat. It may be relief. Not relief at destruction. Not relief at death. Not relief at escalation. Relief that Israel, after years of inner fracture, exhaustion, and self-doubt, can become legible...

Shawn Aron Weiss

Mar 1, 2026, 5:57 PM

I God, in My grace, have summoned you, And I have grasped you by the hand. I created you, and appointed you A covenant people, a light of the nations — Opening eyes deprived of light, Rescuing prisoners from confinement, From the dungeons those...

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