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Sep 23, 2026, 6:48 PM

Convenient if not exactly comfortable — the air-raid shelter felt more like a sepulchre than a sanctuary. Blaring sirens and loudspeakers made it clear that I had to go underground. As these came during the early morning hours, my...

Sep 18, 2026, 8:56 PM

A Mensch with Flour on His Hands

Strudel, Amber, and Pikuach Nefesh Odesa native Uriel Shtern preserves recipes and Jewish memory, transforms Ukrainian amber into Judaica, and helps women reach a doctor in places where war has made an ordinary medical exam nearly inaccessible. At first glance,...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 15, 2026, 10:27 AM

Tough Love for Elected Leaders – USPI Index.

Tough Love for World Leaders Your job is to serve us, not lord over us Dear presidents, prime ministers, kings, generals, ministers, central bankers, consultants, judges and mandarins: Who made you Pharaoh? Who gave you the right to decide which neighbourhood gets bombed,...

Alexander Lutsenko

Sep 12, 2026, 10:40 PM

From Donbas to Jerusalem: Why Zelensky Thanked James Temerty

From Donbas to Jerusalem: Why Zelensky Thanked James Temerty. The image was created using AI.

On September 11, President Volodymyr Zelensky met in Toronto with Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist James Temerty. Zelensky thanked him for his long-standing support for Ukrainians and spoke about one of Ukraine’s most urgent problems today: daily Russian air attacks,...

Alexander Lutsenko

Sep 10, 2026, 4:45 AM

Russia Is Losing Its Syrian Leverage – and the Threat to Israel Is Fading

Russia Is Losing Its Syrian Leverage - and the Threat to Israel Is Fading. The image was created using AI.

On August 9, 2026, Syria and Russia reached an agreement that may matter to Israel far more than the simple question of whether Russian soldiers remain on Syrian soil. After roughly 18 months of negotiations, Damascus and Moscow agreed that...

Alexander Lutsenko

Sep 8, 2026, 1:59 AM

Soviet Dissident, Israeli Politician Natan Sharansky: Ukraine Is Europe’s Shield

Soviet Dissident, Israeli Politician Natan Sharansky: Ukraine Is Europe’s Shield - The image was created using AI.

"And so I want to say to the Ukrainian people, who are going through such a difficult time right now, but every day of your struggle you are free people, and you live a full life, and it is...

Sep 3, 2026, 4:58 AM

Choosing To Trust Queen Esther In The Olam Hafuch

The path Jewish progressives walk is narrow and suspended over an ever-widening divide between their community and their politics. I don't envy progressive Jews or really anyone Jewish located within the left umbrella, all the moreso for how eager...

Alexander Lutsenko

Aug 30, 2026, 3:07 PM

The sunflowers of Ilovaisk and the Jews and Israelis who died defending Ukraine

The sunflowers of Ilovaisk and the Jews and Israelis who died defending Ukraine. The image was created using AI.

On August 29, Ukraine remembers those who gave their lives defending the country’s independence and territorial integrity. For Israelis, the emotional meaning of such a day needs a little explanation. It is not the Ukrainian equivalent of Yom HaZikaron —...

Alexander Lutsenko

Aug 20, 2026, 10:31 PM

Russia and Israel: When Moscow’s Destruction of Freedom Becomes Israel’s Problem

Israel does not need to adopt Russia's opposition as its own cause. But it does need to understand what kind of state Russia is becoming — and what that means for Iran, Hamas, Russian Jews and Israelis who still...

Aug 20, 2026, 6:47 AM

What Kind of Country Did We Come Home to Build?

Ki Teitzei suggests that the real test of Jewish sovereignty may lie not in our greatest achievements, but in the ordinary way we treat one another. Israel knows how to do the impossible. We brought Jews home from Yemen, Ethiopia, Russia...

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