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Jun 12, 2026, 5:27 PM

Korach, Populism, and Leadership in a Time of Crisis

It’s always amazing how the weekly Torah portion lines up perfectly with the evening news. Think about it: massive protests against injustice, religious and secular leaders teaming up for a power grab, both sides throwing corruption charges at each...

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 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...

Jun 3, 2026, 4:04 AM

The Incentive Problem: An Economic Lever in the Haredi Draft Crisis

Israel's post-October 7 manpower shortage cannot be solved by waiting for Haredi enlistment to rise organically. The current system actively subsidizes non-service while asking a shrinking group of reservists to shoulder an ever-growing burden. Bennett's proposal seeks to reverse...

May 21, 2026, 11:58 PM

Stranger in My Own Country

For many of my friends in the United States, Israel has become an increasingly contested subject. Some see it as a democratic society struggling to survive in a hostile region. Others see a country gradually losing its moral character....

Ignat Ayzenberg

May 15, 2026, 6:46 PM

A Nakba Day Reflection on the Politics of Recognition

The power asymmetry between Israelis and Palestinians is shaped by the unequal condition of statehood and statelessness within a twentieth-century international order that increasingly organized political legitimacy through the nation-state. As older imperial, multinational, and pan-national frameworks weakened, peoples...

Sara Azikri-Dobner

May 15, 2026, 7:29 AM

The Broken Spell that will Save Us

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Allegory Inspired by Rumpelstiltskin In a sunny, ancient and restless land in the Middle East lived a tiny, old-new nation called Haaretz, vibrant, quarrelsome, inventive, wounded and hopeful. She spoke in many voices at once, argued with herself in the...

May 6, 2026, 5:57 AM

Loyalty and the Political Expectation

The political expectation to be Zionist lest your loyalty to the State of Israel be questioned escapes me. Zionist political parties declare it will be a condition required of their coalition partners in the next government. If an Arab political...

May 3, 2026, 6:29 AM

Lag B’Omer, Turn On Your Love Light!

One of my favorite songs that the Grateful Dead used to cover is “Turn On Your Love Light,” written by Joe Scott and recorded by Bobby Bland in 1961. The chorus of this composition is powerful: “Turn on your...

Peter Buchsbaum

May 2, 2026, 12:24 AM

Where should we turn

The Psalmist asks, “Where should we turn in a time of trouble?” The question persists. We are confronted by media and academic insensitivity regarding Israel and Jews. We also have to oppose the misdeeds of the Netanyahu government. On the...

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