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Jun 11, 2026, 8:12 AM

The Unravelling: How Netanyahu’s Brinkmanship Lost the American Heartland

For decades, the U.S.-Israel relationship was framed as an "unshakable alliance"—a bipartisan cornerstone of American foreign policy that transcended the messy, often bitter domestic squabbles of either nation. It was a relationship built on shared democratic values, strategic interests,...

Jun 11, 2026, 3:05 AM

When Allies Disagree: The Conversation Israel and America Still Need

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The Call That Revealed the Crisis The most revealing moment in the U.S.-Israel relationship this month was not a missile strike, a ceasefire announcement, or another carefully staged statement of friendship. It was the report of an angry phone call. According to...

Barry Mellinger

Jun 10, 2026, 11:36 PM

Brilliant. Fearless. And Completely Stuck.

Haviv Rettig-Gur and Sam Harris, brilliant, fearless, and, I would argue, completely stuck.
Haviv Rettig Gur (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0) and Sam Harris (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0)

Episode 120 of the Haviv Rettig-Gur podcast, “What Actually Saves Us”, is the kind of sober, rigorous conversation that has become vanishingly rare in the public defense of Israel. Two serious thinkers who resist the temptation to overbid, in...

Gabriella Jacobs

Jun 10, 2026, 2:31 PM

How to land your dream job in Israel: A guide

Wine tasting (Wikimedia commons)

What exactly is professional networking, really? In America, I always imagined it involved LinkedIn. Maybe a blazer. Certainly some degree of intentionality. You go to a conference, exchange business cards, send follow-up emails nobody reads, and slowly construct a guaranteed...

Moshe Grussgott

Jun 9, 2026, 11:17 PM

Do Not Harken to the Voice of T’ruah

“For You hear the sound of the shofar and You harken to the voice of the truah” – from the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy 1) Shameful Self-Debasement Last week, the Jewish organization T'ruah held their annual conference, where they were addressed...

Jun 9, 2026, 11:15 PM

The Israel I Heard on a Mountaintop

John Boyd Thacher Park in New York's Helderberg Mountains. (Photo Credit: "Discover Albany"--https://www.albany.org/listing/john-boyd-thacher-state-park/1967/)

In June 1967, a high school friend and I spent six consecutive nights driving from our homes in Albany, New York, to the top of John Boyd Thacher Park in the Helderberg Mountains. We arrived just before midnight carrying...

Jaime Kardontchik

Jun 9, 2026, 7:42 PM

Jews are dhimmis: They cannot have a state

The conflict between the Arabs and the Jews is not about borders: Israel is not interested in not even a square inch of Lebanese territory. It is not about the lack of a Palestinian state: The Palestinians rejected in...

Jun 9, 2026, 1:19 PM

“I Want Them All”

It has been an eventful twelve hours here in Israel, but probably not the way you might think. If you have been listening to the news, following weeks of constant bombardment of the northern part of Israel by Hezbollah,...

Jun 9, 2026, 6:16 AM

How to Vet Dates and Politicians

My friend was going through a break-up. We sat on the grass outside her home as I tried to convince her to hate her ex. I had been seeing New Guy. It’s hard to tell a friend to hate...

Jun 9, 2026, 4:18 AM

Supporting Jewish Nonprofit Professionals

I am an “elder millennial,” which means I have endured both the cultural shame of AOL instant messaging in college (how many variations of ‘gym, class, study’ can there be?) and the medical indignity of being called a geriatric...

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