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Oct 8, 2026, 5:28 AM

When Redemption Goes Wrong

Yosef della Reina, Rav Kook, and the religious responsibility to remain open to correction There is an old Jewish story about a man who decides that the world has suffered long enough. His name is Yosef della Reina. In the version of...

Barry Mellinger

Oct 7, 2026, 11:47 PM

Never Again Is for Us

I am the grandson of Holocaust survivors, barely survivors, who walked out of the camps into a silence so total it could scarcely be understood. I have written elsewhere about what this meant for my own family. I mention it...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Oct 7, 2026, 5:42 PM

October 7 Was Supposed to Complicate the Model

Every model simplifies reality. In physics, we treat bodies as point masses, ignore friction and imagine ideal gases that exist in no actual container. That is not a flaw. A model is useful precisely because it leaves part of...

Oct 6, 2026, 6:57 PM

What Is Zionism For?

Mashiach ben Yosef, Mashiach ben David, and the Unfinished Work of Religious Zionism My friend Adam Louis-Klein and I have been studying the book Kol HaNevuah—The Voice of Prophecy—together. It is the great philosophical work of Rabbi David Cohen, the Nazir,...

Kenneth Jacobson

Oct 6, 2026, 5:36 PM

The World’s Selective Memory on October 7

Illustrative: Israelis wave flags outside Jerusalem's Old City on April 20, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)

As we approach the third anniversary of the worst massacre in Israeli history, what is so striking is the absence of any attention to that massacre outside Israel and the Jewish world. On the one hand, that could be...

Oct 6, 2026, 10:48 AM

My Reverse Canary Mission Profile

The Case Against Ivan Bassov, According to RCM In my article “Canary Mission and Reverse Canary Mission,” I wrote: There are two websites that have struck me as particularly interesting: Canary Mission and its ideological counterpart, Reverse Canary Mission. Both are political...

Barry Finestone

Oct 6, 2026, 10:21 AM

What I want my non-Jewish friends to see this October 7

US pro-Palestinian activists during a protest in support of the terror attack against Israel, in New York City, October 8, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Protest Israel’s policies all you like. But when people mark a massacre of Jews by celebrating its perpetrators, something else is happening

Oct 6, 2026, 5:53 AM

Can Toronto’s Antizionist Mayor be Defeated?

Most Jews in Toronto are aware of the consequential Israeli election on October 27. But, by coincidence, Jews living in Toronto face a consequential municipal election the day before - on October 26, 2026. Toronto has experienced an exceptionally serious...

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, 11:51 AM

Three years after October 7, Jewish humanity should need no defense

Three years after October 7, remembering the victims means defending a principle that should never have become controversial: Jewish and Israeli civilians are entitled to safety and compassion without first passing a political test. The people Hamas murdered in their...

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