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May 12, 2026, 5:39 PM

Violence, and more violence

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1) As the details of the killing of Yemanu Binyamin Zelka in Petah Tikva become clearer, we are more and more shocked and horrified, not just by the act, itself, but by the decisions of the courts. Zelka’s family...

May 3, 2026, 9:21 PM

Trump and Political Violence

Let’s be kind and call it a case of convenient political amnesia. I’m referring to the Republican reaction to the shooting at the White House Correspondents dinner April 25. Wasting no time, one by one, they blamed Democrats for “dangerous and...

May 2, 2026, 5:31 PM

Australia’s Interim Antisemitism Report: A Reckoning Begins

Commissioner for the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion Virginia Bell, right, delivers her report to Australian Governor-General Sam Mostyn at Government House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

For decades, the Australian Jewish community lived under a comfortable, yet slightly fragile, illusion. We were the "Lucky Country’s" greatest success story. A thriving, vibrant diaspora of 120,000 who had built schools, businesses, and lives in a nation that...

Apr 30, 2026, 4:09 PM

Debate, Not Violence

This past weekend, right outside the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a young man tried to kill the president of the United States. Thank God, the Secret Service moved quickly, and no one inside was seriously hurt. Whatever...

Jaclyn S. Clark

Apr 29, 2026, 5:29 AM

Cole Allen tried to kill the US president. The internet tried to blame the Jews

Once you accept that violence in service of a cause is reasonable, the logical endgame is murder - and antisemitism is the default premise

Pinchas Allouche

Apr 28, 2026, 12:15 AM

When Assassination Attempts Stop Shocking Us

The Hospital at the Bottom of the Bridge The villagers of Chelm once faced a serious problem. A wooden bridge at the edge of town had a loose plank in the middle. People kept stepping on it, falling through, and breaking...

Stephen M. Flatow

Apr 26, 2026, 9:36 PM

When Politics Becomes Existential, Violence Follows

A shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner highlights a growing danger: When political opponents are treated as existential threats, violence follows

Feb 22, 2026, 4:28 PM

A Whole Classroom killed in a Month: This is Israel 2026

One person murdered in a single day. An entire classroom lost in a single month. These are not statistics from a distant war zone. This is everyday Israel in 2026. Criminal terror is flooding our streets, taking lives, paralyzing communities, and...

Feb 18, 2026, 8:36 AM

If You Stand for Nothing, You Fall for Anything

In the first months of 2026—two months after the Bondi attack—we pause to take stock of what the last year has taught us, and to reflect on its lessons. And we ask, as Jews and as citizens: what did...

Jonathan Shavit

Feb 16, 2026, 6:14 AM

Election year and the importance of the Arab Israeli vote

The opportunity for Israelis to exercise their democratic right is once again upon them. While Israeli society has shown in the past two years that it succeeds in coming together in the most wonderful ways, at the ballot box...

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