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Sep 24, 2026, 11:49 PM

Benjamin Netanyahu and the Politics of Self-Preservation

Now that the government’s failures have become impossible to ignore, even for many of Netanyahu’s staunchest supporters, some are beginning to see the end of the Netanyahu era in Israeli politics. This has prompted a growing number of voices...

Sep 24, 2026, 8:45 AM

IsraelaPhobic Betty Boop McCollum at it Again…

I see that Betty McCollum (D-MN) is still suffering from IsraelaPhobia. She caught this Bug years ago when she began obsessively instigating anti-Israel legislation. Rafael Medoff, founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies posts, “In every...

Sep 24, 2026, 5:41 AM

The Sephardic Voice the Jewish World Needs

This past August, around 150 rabbis and community leaders from a dozen countries gathered at the UJA-Federation in New York for the second Sephardic Rabbinic Conference. There were representatives from over 13 U.S. States and delegations from Canada, Mexico,...

Sep 23, 2026, 5:46 AM

When Law Becomes Political Theatre

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When Law Becomes Political Theatre New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has once again called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal and an architect of genocide, while repeating that Netanyahu should be arrested when he visits New York to...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Sep 22, 2026, 6:39 PM

‘Their Place Is Not With Us’? Citizenship Is Not a Reward

“Hit them in their pockets and in their citizenship,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week, announcing two proposed laws aimed at people he says defame Israeli soldiers abroad. One would dramatically increase damages in defamation cases. The other...

Sep 22, 2026, 3:14 AM

Indiana Came to Israel Ready to Work

Photo by Todd Scoggins.

Indiana came to Israel in June with a question. Not, What can Israel show us? Something more useful: What can Indiana and Israel actually build together? That distinction shaped the trip. A few weeks earlier, leaders from Indiana government, technology, cybersecurity, higher...

Sheldon Kirshner

Sep 21, 2026, 8:04 PM

Netanyahu Fears A Jewish-Arab Coalition

Public opinion polls in Israel indicate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition is likely to fall short of winning a 61-seat majority in the 120-member Knesset, leaving him unable to form a government after the October 27 general...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Sep 20, 2026, 5:12 PM

The Yom Kippur lesson Israel still needs after October 7

A recording and transcription of the Agranat Commission. (Lkahan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

No inquiry can guarantee that an Israeli 'conception' won't collapse down the road, but it can turn a catastrophe into an event we learn from, and that's worth it

Sep 19, 2026, 1:26 AM

When Religious Narratives Make Peace More Difficult

Why do negotiations between Israel, the United States, Iran, and their allies so often struggle to produce lasting results? The usual explanations refer to strategic interests. However, they are not enough to explain why some compromises appear unacceptable to...

Sep 17, 2026, 2:11 PM

No Hens Exist Outside the Henhouse

Existential Fascism, Israel, and the Lenses No One Can Take Off There is a rather comfortable mistake we make when we look at a society we consider sick: imagining that we ourselves stand outside it. I look at Israel from Belgium....

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