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Grant Arthur Gochin

Oct 1, 2026, 2:41 AM

How Many Coincidences Does Lithuania Need?

My family has encountered recurring evidentiary instability across generations. The Margolis record now gives Lithuania another chance to explain whether that recurrence is accidental. On January 21, 2026, Lithuania’s government adopted a 157-measure action plan against antisemitism, xenophobia and incitement...

Donna Swarthout

Sep 30, 2026, 4:41 PM

Who Will Light the Menorah at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate this Year?

Anyone without the experience of an American Jew living in Berlin would be convinced of a new reality. The Left (Die Linke) party has won the September 20th Berlin state election and will now bring its antisemitic views and...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 30, 2026, 12:24 AM

Citizenship as Both Refuge and Inheritance

A passport can be an escape route. It can also be an heirloom. Jews understand passports differently from people who have never had to imagine an exit route. Long before October 7, sociologist Yossi Harpaz documented that close to 60,000...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 29, 2026, 1:34 AM

Lithuania Decorated Baker for Representing Lithuanian Jews. Who Chose Him?

Lithuanian Jewry was nearly annihilated, and with it the machinery for choosing representatives. Lithuania's President has since honored Andrew Baker for representing Lithuanian Jews' interests. Its Foreign Ministry called an AJC meeting "the leadership of the American Jewish community."...

Janet Bond Brill

Sep 28, 2026, 9:24 PM

She Danced for the Gestapo. Then She Danced the Hora

One of my favorite photographs of my mother-in-law, Edna, sits on my desk. She is high above a dance floor, lifted on a chair during the hora. Her platinum curls are immaculate. Her mouth is wide open in a...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:00 PM

The payment for freedom: A Homework Notebook in Kyiv, Weeds in Oleshky

Oleshki sign (photo made by a military drone provided by the press-service to the media)

At about 8 a.m. on Friday, September 25, a Russian drone hit a residential building in Kyiv’s Pechersk district, not far from the Israeli embassy. Daniel Umansky, 14, an Israeli citizen whose family had made aliyah and returned to...

Sep 28, 2026, 7:34 AM

A New Nazi Germany?

There are many reasons I care about Germany. First, my mother was a German Jew who survived the Holocaust but lost much of her family in Hitler’s infamous gas chambers. Second, I lived there for a while as a young...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 28, 2026, 4:03 AM

⁦⁧איפה משה היום?⁩ | ⁧أين موسى عليه السلام اليوم؟⁩ | Where Is Moses Today?⁩

Pharaoh’s Guide to Modern Political Leadership When you cannot answer the accusation, commission a biography of the accuser. A satire on the "modern" press "office". The first rule of machiavellian political leadership is straightforward: when someone asks what you have done,...

Andy Blumenthal

Sep 28, 2026, 3:56 AM

Hard-Code G-d Into AI

Artificial intelligence cannot answer only to human commands. It must be built to serve the goodness of G-d and protect the people and world He created. A friend told me about a colleague who accepted lucrative night work after his...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 27, 2026, 10:40 PM

Sinica Says the Government Condemned. Its Minutes Say Otherwise.

The bill asks Lithuania to recognize the Provisional Government’s declaration as state law while the government’s own records preserve anti-Jewish “measures,” a Jewish concentration camp, a German ghetto order, and legislation directed specifically at Jews. On June 23, 2025, Seimas...

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