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Apr 26, 2026, 9:31 AM

The Rules We Need To Follow

My wife and I have lived in Petach Tikva ever since we made Aliyah to Israel more than ten years ago. Our location in the Kfar Ganim Gimmel neighborhood has excellently suited our needs. Unfortunately, a senseless murder occurred...

Apr 15, 2026, 1:31 PM

Reflections Following the Ceasefire with Iran As Seen By Ethiopian Jewry

With the announcement of a ceasefire with Iran, many commentators—especially public figures who see themselves as potential alternatives to the current government—rushed to offer sharp criticism of the move and of the government’s conduct. They argue that the war’s...

Mar 29, 2026, 11:01 AM

The Red Heifer, Purity and Impurity: Jewish Traditions and the War with Iran

What connection could there be between the commandment of the red heifer—one of the most mysterious commandments in the Torah, about which we read on Shabbat—and the moral and political challenges of our own time, especially the war with...

Feb 23, 2026, 8:58 PM

What Tucker Carlson Didn’t See: A Black Ethiopian Israeli Witness Speaks

I write as an Ethiopian Jewish Israeli American a member of an ancient Black Jewish community whose bond to the Jewish people predates modern Christianity, modern Islam, and certainly modern American politics. I have lived in Africa, Israel, and...

Feb 17, 2026, 2:38 PM

Time for Silence Is Over: Israel Must Bring the Remaining Ethiopian Jews Home

The Ethiopian Israeli community in Jerusalem, during the Ethiopian protest on Feb. 2, 2026. Photo credit: Dr. Shmuel Legesse

According to updated community estimates, the names of nearly 15,000 Jews of Ethiopian origin are now written and documented as waiting in Ethiopia. Many live in designated “waiting stations” and compounds in Gondar and Addis Ababa. On Sunday, February...

Feb 15, 2026, 1:03 AM

The Phantom Seat: North Africa’s AU Deadlock and the New Trans-Regional Axis

As the sun rose over the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa today, February 14, 2026, the 39th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly opened with an atmosphere of staged unity that could not mask a profound structural...

Jan 28, 2026, 2:56 PM

‘Your people shall be my people’

Why are individuals choosing this moment to join the Jewish people?

Jan 14, 2026, 9:14 PM

Not just missing, but abandoned by the system

Haymanut Kasau, 9, who went missing on February 25, 2024, from a Jewish Agency absorption center in Safed, northern Israel. (Courtesy)

What Haymanut Kasau’s case reveals about power, visibility, and urgency in Israel

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 8, 2026, 5:41 PM

Police violence against Ethiopian Jews is ongoing

Israel should be the least racist country in the world because we are an immigrant-majority country, and 65% are Arab – Jewish or Muslim. Israel has Jewish ‘returnees’ from every country and culture in the world. And, as a Jew-majority...

David Nekrutman

Jan 2, 2026, 5:41 PM

Global hate isn’t packing Jewish suitcases

The arrival of French Jews who made aliyah, at Ben Gurion International Airport on July 10, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

For many potential immigrants, the choice isn't between 'Israel or the Diaspora' — it’s between 'Zionism or my mother'

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