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Jun 13, 2026, 12:50 AM

Reading Materials Reflect My Soul and Its Journey

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These are the books I’m reading and listening to: Anatomy of Exile, by Zeeva Bukai Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege, by Melanie Phillips Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict,...

Jun 12, 2026, 6:06 PM

The Clock is Ticking Part III

Do you ever drive past a car accident and slow down to take a look? You stretch your neck to get a better view and it feels like everything is moving in slow motion? That is my life here...

Jun 12, 2026, 5:32 AM

Thank you to Comedy Legend Jerry Seinfeld for always standing with Israel

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Back in March of this year during the beginning of the war with Iran, I was fortunate enough to be one of the very few people that was able to secure a flight to Israel for Passover...

Jun 11, 2026, 10:25 PM

A Tired Nation Cannot Dream

For most of Israel’s history exhaustion was not an option. The generation that founded the state drained swamps, built roads, fought wars, buried friends, welcomed refugees, and somehow still found the energy to imagine a future that did not yet...

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

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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...

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