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Jul 22, 2026, 6:23 AM

The Price of Shrinking: Why American Jews Must Stop Hiding

For many American Jews, Israel has traditionally been viewed as a political cause, a family inheritance or a destination visited through organized trips. For Logan Levkoff, a New York based educator, media personality and Jewish advocate, Israel has become...

Ruthie Hollander

Jul 22, 2026, 6:14 AM

Mayor Mamdani: Listen, before it’s too late.

Photo on the right: credit to Wikimedia Commons
Photo on the left: credit to HESPRESS VIA ADL

At a small event run by JFNA a year ago, the current Israeli ambassador to the United States, Rabbi Dr. Yechiel Leiter, said something profound about his role. His job, he explained, was to remove the “stain of Cain”...

Nico Socolovsky

Jul 22, 2026, 6:05 AM

Reclaiming Zionism: Ro Khanna, Israel, and the VIP Path into America’s Moral Club

There was a time when getting into a nightclub involved a small ritual. First, you bought a ticket. That gave you the right to stand in line, but it did not guarantee that you would be admitted… Of course,...

Cecilia Lazzaro Blasbalg

Jul 21, 2026, 6:52 PM

The Anti-Argentina Narrative In The World Cup Has Never Been Worse: Let’s Fix It

Over 5,000 Argentine fans gather at the Fan Fest in Palermo, Buenos Aires to watch the World Cup final, Argentina vs Spain, on Sunday, July 19. 2026. (Cecilia Lazzaro Blasbalg)

In the past 48 hours, the captain of Argentina’s national soccer team, Lionel Messi, 39, left the New York New Jersey Stadium in tears after losing to Spain 1-0 in extra time at the World Cup on Sunday. Messi,...

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Jul 21, 2026, 6:32 PM

Every Flag But One

For a few weeks every four years, people across borders, languages and faiths organize their lives around the same 90 minutes. We see strangers embrace over a goal. Flags of nations thousands of miles apart wave side by side...

Jul 21, 2026, 5:48 PM

Cultural Humility is Your Friend

In a previous post, I talked about my journey as someone who has been engaged in scholarship and advocacy centered on social justice, only to become shocked and appalled when so many people in progressive circles that I had...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jul 21, 2026, 3:12 PM

Showing So as Not to See

On July 4, 1946, forty-two Jews were murdered in Kielce, and dozens more were wounded. The eightieth anniversary of the pogrom should be more than another occasion to commemorate its victims. It should also compel us to ask how...

Jul 21, 2026, 1:38 PM

Iran’s War of Strategic Exhaustion

Close-up view of Middle East map highlighting countries and borders, as from Pexels website (URL is https://www.pexels.com/photo/middle-eastern-countries-in-a-world-map-8828624/).

The conflict between the United States and Iran is entering a new phase in which military operations are increasingly focused on weakening the Islamic Republic's ability to govern rather than simply destroying its armed forces. By targeting infrastructure, logistics,...

Jul 21, 2026, 12:55 PM

Where Europe Places Its Jews

A few weeks ago, I walked into a second-hand bookstore and bought a novel by Antonio Tabucchi, the Italian writer whose devotion to Fernando Pessoa and Lisbon had recently drawn me into his work. Only later did I open...

David Rosenthal

Jul 21, 2026, 6:47 AM

The Rebuilding of the Bogotá-Jerusalem Axis

A nation’s foreign policy is often more enduring than short-term political circumstances. Governments change; national interests remain. It is against this backdrop that we should understand the eventual rebuilding of relations between Colombia and Israel—a strategic alliance forged over...

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