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Jul 20, 2026, 12:57 PM

Flying home to vote

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I'll make a quick trip from Europe not because I want to earn the right to criticize the next government, but because I want there to be less to criticize

Jul 13, 2026, 12:58 PM

Trapped in China

China and I are not friends. I first realized that long ago when, passing through one of its many airports, an unsmiling immigration officer confiscated my favorite oversized razor. And again, years later, when during a two-day-multiple-airport layover, my then-eight-year-old...

Jul 12, 2026, 7:02 AM

Fabulous beasts and winding streets: Prague, Kafka, and the Jewish condition

Kafka & Friends on the Charles Bridge, Prague. (Chat GPT, 25-6-2026)

The famous author inherited the city's tradition of mystery and sharpened it into stories about how the uncanny is woven into the ordinary structures of our world

Jul 6, 2026, 3:34 AM

Open Letter to Dr. Anna Cohen

Dear Dr. Cohen, Through this open letter, I address your recent statement on the program “Shqip” on Dritare TV, hosted by Rudina Xhunga, in which you declared: “In 1492, Vlora had 90% Jews and 10% Albanians.” This statement has triggered...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Jul 4, 2026, 10:08 AM

Collective Responsibility in Modern Practice

In a recent essay, I interrogated collective responsibility as one of those dangerously predictable historical mechanisms that keeps returning, not through scattered anecdotes but through patterns that reappear under shifting political language. Since that piece appeared, two unrelated news...

Diego Serebrennik

Jul 3, 2026, 5:21 PM

Twenty Centuries of Being Looked At

How the gaze on the Jews was built, and the question it leaves What can a Jew do, standing in an inheritance of twenty centuries of being defined from outside? I ask it as a practical question and I intend...

Jul 2, 2026, 11:11 PM

Remembering Elie Wiesel

Michael Rogatchi (C). My Train. In the Mirror of Shoah. Oil on canvas. 1993.

The 10th anniversary of the great humanist’s passing Reflecting of the loss today, 10 years on July 2nd, 2026, marked the tenth anniversary of Elie Wiesel’s passing. Reflecting on the date feels complex. From one side, we and the international society...

Israel Ben Iosef

Jun 29, 2026, 12:38 PM

Total NATO Victory

Rarely does one read or hear such a statement. In fact, we seldom allow ourselves optimism or hope in a world that seems determined to find negativity and yet another excuse not to get off the sofa, because tomorrow...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Jun 28, 2026, 4:56 PM

Yaacov Agam: The artist who reread the 2nd commandment

The Fire and Water Fountain, Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv. Credit: roni dadon / PikiWiki Israel, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.

His works refuse the fixed image that claims to reveal everything at once; rather, they insist on sacred multiple interpretations

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Jun 24, 2026, 3:59 PM

The Problem of Collective Responsibility

Mandy Patinkin said something imprecise, frightening, and partly true in The New York Times. Speaking of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, he argued that it was endangering the State of Israel and Jews around the world. The response came quickly. Unpacked...

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