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Craig Considine

Oct 5, 2026, 7:07 PM

October 7 Did Not Create the Red-Green Alliance

October 7 did not create the alliance between the progressive left and political Islam, but it did put the alliance’s indictment of Israel on the record. Before that morning, the convergence lived mostly in slogans, coalitions, and campus demonstrations....

Oct 5, 2026, 11:30 AM

Nobody Wants Dis-agreement

Adam Brody said something about Israel. That should not be a remarkable sentence. He is an American citizen, an actor and a Jew. Jews have been saying things about Israel—and arguing with one another about those things—for considerably longer...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 4, 2026, 6:10 PM

The Judaism That Lets Us Become

What We Inherit, What We Change, and What We Give Forward I have carried a question for most of my life, though I did not always know I was carrying it. What does it mean to inherit Judaism? For years, I believed...

Oct 4, 2026, 1:26 PM

NAZA: Why 25 Minutes of Applause?

There are occasions when excess becomes more revealing than argument. The twenty-five-minute standing ovation accorded at the Venice Film Festival to NAZA, a documentary devoted to allegations against Israel, was such an occasion. The film itself need not detain...

Meggie Tempelman-Itzhak

Oct 4, 2026, 12:28 PM

Israel Real Estate: What Overseas Investors Should Know

Since the outbreak of the war, we have seen significant interest from Jewish investors in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, France and other countries who are considering real estate investments in Israel. Some of...

Irina Zavina-Tare

Oct 4, 2026, 8:35 AM

The October 8 Jew I Became

There are days that divide a life into before and after. The birth of a child. A marriage. A death. A diagnosis. We all have dates that become markers, moments after which we are somehow no longer quite the same...

Joanne Strasser

Oct 3, 2026, 10:32 AM

Six Drafts: Writing About Ourselves After Oct. 7

Hanna Yablonka, Berlin, August 2026. Photo by the author.

At the end of August, the Fifth Tel-Hai International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide met at Touro University Berlin. Its title was “Us, Them, Everyone.” There I met Hanna Yablonka, a historian at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,...

Dovid Flinkenstein

Oct 3, 2026, 9:28 AM

Was It Staged in Plane Sight?

Why are there so many conspiracy theories about this attempted hijacking? Why are people insisting that it was staged, or that perhaps there was merely some kind of fight between the pilots, an emergency landing, and then an elaborate...

Gershon Blumstein

Oct 3, 2026, 9:26 AM

Loving Israel With Honest Conscience

There is a moment when love becomes complicated. You love someone deeply, but something they have done troubles your conscience. You hesitate to speak because you know how easily criticism can sound like rejection. I know that feeling when it comes...

Adam O. Goldstein

Oct 2, 2026, 10:54 PM

A Plumber, a Dentist, 67 Minutes, and the Miracle of Survival

Tell your children

There is an old joke that if you put two Jews in a room, you get three opinions. Apparently, if you put a plane full of people headed to Israel in an emergency, you discover a plumber who can...

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