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Sep 2, 2026, 9:48 PM

A History of ‘L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty’: 6 Years – 5,000+ Members

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Our group, “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty,” recently surged well past 5,000 members across the USA, Israel, and the world. The Israeli Knesset’s highly publicized passage of two death penalty laws earlier this year marks a significant reason...

Aug 31, 2026, 12:08 AM

Israel Votes. Why Should a Soccer Mom in Nebraska Care?

The ballots are Israeli. The consequences are not. On October 27, Israelis will vote. I won’t. Neither will most of you reading this outside Israel. And somewhere in Nebraska, a soccer mom will probably be considerably more concerned about whether she remembered the...

Aug 30, 2026, 5:15 PM

Altalena Was the Moment Israel Chose to Become a State

A state rarely loses sovereignty in one dramatic act. It loses it by granting exceptions: to armed factions it sympathizes with, civilians it trusts, institutions a government mistakes for its own, and private initiatives born of good intentions. Altalena’s...

Aug 29, 2026, 11:10 AM

Netanyahu and his coalition are Israel’s most dangerous threat

Israel weighs expelling UK officials from Gaza coordination center amid settlements row I’m damn tired of ‘pro-Israel’ being used by both media and, especially, in social media as an insult or point of indignation. It creates the assumption that the...

Aug 28, 2026, 10:35 AM

Part II: Israel Is Gone. Who Fills the Vacuum?

The second in a three-part series examining what actually comes after “Delete Israel.” In Part I, I asked what the slogan means for the Gazans its supporters claim to be fighting for. Now let’s grant the hypothetical completely. Israel...

Aug 27, 2026, 9:01 PM

Israel’s Critics Are Helping to Create the Government They Fear

Israel’s rightward shift did not happen in a vacuum. Refusing to understand it will only accelerate it. Peter Lerner argues that Israel is currently governed by the most extreme coalition in its history. He is well within his rights to...

Aug 27, 2026, 2:20 PM

When Leadership Fails to Lead

A little more than a year ago a group of 80 Rabbis wrote a letter espousing their moral outrage for Israel’s behavior in Gaza, Yehuda and Shomron. The term people use for these rabbis is Orthodox. I have always...

Aug 26, 2026, 8:10 PM

Beware the ‘Populist Bump’

Last week, Der Spiegel faced a media firestorm for its cover page placement of lead Alternativ fur Deutschland (AfD) Saxony-Anhalt candidate Ulrich Siegmund. Despite the accompanying article’s critical tone, commentators from renowned center-left media outlets lambasted the publication, arguing...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Aug 24, 2026, 11:02 AM

Netanyahu Can Lose and Still Win

Illustration by Yochanan Schimmelpfennig. Concept and composition: Yochanan Schimmelpfennig, 2026.

Israel is approaching the October 27 election under conditions of unusual political uncertainty. Likud is under pressure, Netanyahu has no guaranteed path to a majority, and the governing bloc depends on partners whose interests are increasingly difficult to reconcile....

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 21, 2026, 5:25 AM

Capability does not equal Trust.

Capability ≠ Trust Project Glasswing, artificial intelligence, human expertise — and why the most capable system is not necessarily the system we should trust Artificial intelligence is becoming extraordinarily capable. That sentence is increasingly difficult to dispute. Models can write software. Read medical literature. Analyse...

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