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Nov 5, 2026, 3:17 PM

Book Review – Torah and the Army: The Relationship of Torah and IDF Service

Few issues confronting Israeli society today are as contentious, emotionally charged, or consequential as the relationship between Torah study and military service. In the aftermath of October 7 and the ongoing challenges facing Israel, the question of who should...

Nov 5, 2026, 9:50 AM

Echoes of Antisemitism at Frankfurt Book Fair 2026

PART 1 (Written with Alex Uberti) Since the early 2000s, we have been monitoring Arab book fairs across the Mediterranean and in the Middle East to identify texts and publishers that peddle hate or incite violence, especially against the Jews. Each year, such texts...

Oct 30, 2026, 6:06 PM

What Israel’s Next Government Owes the India Relationship

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu share a car ride on Wednesday, February 25, 2026. (Credit: PM Modi/X).

Some relationships between states are best explained by interest. Others only make sense once you add something harder to measure: trust. The bond between Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu belongs to the second kind. Commentators call it a “bromance”...

G. Orah Adarah Paris

Oct 30, 2026, 5:50 PM

A Pleasure We Share: Why a Pharaoh Appreciated God

Judaism, in every sense, encompasses so many different cultures - perhaps because what defines Jews most of all is a set of values, more so than we are a culture or a religion (when you consider the different traditions...

Oct 29, 2026, 2:51 PM

Book review: New books on the intersection of medicine and halacha

People tend to reminisce about the good old days. For observant Jews, there are certainly earlier times when things really were simpler. Consider visiting someone in a hospital on Shabbat a few decades ago. Getting to a patient's room was...

Dina-Perla Portnaar

Oct 28, 2026, 2:32 PM

The power to make someone else’s work mean less

Dina-Perla

Cultural authority, intellectual erasure, and the politics of legitimacy Becoming culturally powerful comes with the privilege of having your significance treated as established, while everyone else's remains open to negotiation. Beyond a certain threshold of recognition, success ceases to be...

Shoshana Kohn-Kutny

Oct 21, 2026, 9:51 AM

I loved El-Sayed’s answer. I wouldn’t vote for him

By Conlan Houston - https://www.flickr.com/photos/197161005@N08/54882630144/, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=177428649

I loved what he said Last weekend, at a town hall in a red Michigan county, a guy named Tommy (who, it turns out, used to work for Josh Hawley) asked Abdul El-Sayed if he'd disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed...

G. Orah Adarah Paris

Oct 21, 2026, 1:08 AM

Parashat Lech Lecha: The “Why” You Are Your Greatest Spiritual Master.

A magical characteristic of life is that even when you think your faith couldn’t possibly be stronger and is arguably the strongest in the world, it can still increase! Everyone knows about the riots in Paris that started last Saturday...

Oct 16, 2026, 11:53 PM

New Book: Universal Zionism Helps Define Zionism For All

Photo: Weitz

Some days I feel like taking a mic, bringing a friend and having them tape a random “Talk On The Street” to prove a point, most people can’t define what Zionism is. How can anyone, including so-called journalists, celebrities and...

Lisa M. Pollack

Oct 15, 2026, 10:42 PM

Neve Hanna: Books. Bread. Brighter Futures.

Neve Hanna Children's Home, Israel.
Photo: AFNH staff. March 2025.

Learning Today. Building Brighter Futures. Two different classrooms. One shared purpose. At Neve Hanna Children's Home, education isn't limited to the classroom. Some of life's most important lessons are learned by doing—discovering new abilities, developing practical skills, taking responsibility, and gaining the...

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