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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 11, 2026, 4:30 PM

Palestinian Statehood Threatens Arab Stability

Arab governments must reverse their long-standing support for a Palestinian state. Historically, this so-called “statehood project” has fractured regional sovereignty from within, presenting a direct national security threat to the wider Levant and the Gulf. Palestinian political and military...

Shulamit S. Magnus

Oct 11, 2026, 2:08 PM

Who Is the Mother Country?

To the extraordinary equation of Zionism and imperialist colonialism (extraordinary not in the sense of being rare, since this is a widely broadcast assertion, but in its breathtaking ignorance of Jewish, or even Zionist, history), the question is: Who...

Oct 9, 2026, 7:02 PM

Two years on since finding the Kindertransport lists at Yad Vashem

On 10th October 2024 I wrote this message to Hanna Zack Miley on Instagram: “Hanna! I found your Kindertransport list”. I had landed in Israel on the 6th of October 2024 on the eve of the first anniversary of...

Michael Laitman

Oct 8, 2026, 11:54 PM

What Does It Mean to Be Jewish in Modern Israel?

The key to a good life is in harmonious human connections. If we build a society that feels like a family, the problems from which we all suffer will be resolved. Where do these ideas come from, and why...

Oct 8, 2026, 11:05 PM

Dragør: The Little Fishing Village That Helped Save a Nation’s Jews

The picturesque village of Dragør, Denmark. Photo: New York Jewish Travel Guide.

There are places where history is impossible to miss. It stands in monumental buildings, fills museum galleries, and announces itself through plaques and memorials. And then there are places like Dragør, a beautiful fishing village just outside Copenhagen, where...

Oct 8, 2026, 4:08 PM

Remnant of a People

Group of Jewish orphans, survivors of the Holocaust, 1944.

In 2016, Israeli singers Gilad Kahana, Tamir Muskat, and A-WA (a terrific Yemenite-Israeli band of sisters) put out an electronic, hip-hop-inflected banger: I’M A TRIBE. My usual taste in music? Nope. But it captures a poetic truth I haven’t...

Oct 6, 2026, 3:34 PM

The Heavens Belong to God: May a Jew Leave Earth?

Apollo 8 Flight Plan, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-apollo-8-delivered-moment-christmas-eve-peace-and-understanding-world-180976431/
Overlaid with astronaut:, stock photography licensed via Canva

Early Space exploration precipitated an interest in how Jewish law might be kept beyond the confines of planet Earth. Before asking how Halakha could be observed in Space, we need to return to an earlier question: whether humans may...

Oct 5, 2026, 7:17 PM

The Terrible Price of Success

Coveting is one of the ugliest impulses in human nature. The Torah understood that long before modern psychology gave it a name. The Tenth Commandment says it plainly: Lo Tachmod “Thou shalt not covet.” There is a reason that commandment...

Oct 5, 2026, 6:57 PM

Inner Lights Throughout a Year: Art & Life

Inna Rogatchi (C). Circle of Hope.

Artistic re-examination of an annual Jewish Holidays New Art Collection Part I of 3 With a new Jewish year started recently, and the new Torah annual circle taking off, it is an appropriate time for presenting the new art collection re-examining an...

Allen S. Maller

Oct 3, 2026, 10:36 AM

A Jewish View Of Choosing To Be Chosen

Christianity and Islam are religious communities. Judaism (Hebrews Genesis 14:13) however is more than just a religious community. The Hebrew Bible is filled with secular national Jewish history and political desire to make future Jews into ongoing independence and...

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