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Jun 22, 2026, 1:35 PM

Gad Saad: ‘Bad things’ happened to abducted parents

Since 7 October 2023, the Beirut-born professor Gad Saad has become an outspoken figure on social media, inveighing against antisemitism, 'wokeism' and 'social justice activism' . His book 'Suicidal empathy' describes a 'death wish' among westerners who empathise with...

Jun 21, 2026, 6:12 PM

Three Laws for Living When Life Breaks

Three Laws for Going On Living When Life Breaks Apart I was walking with Yohanita through the park near the Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. There, once again, we saw a group of Ukrainians gathered together. Whenever Yohanita sees them, something...

Jun 14, 2026, 6:07 PM

Erdogan Exposed the Lie Beneath Ataturk’s Republic

Erdogan is not the deviation that ruined a clean republic. He is the loud voice of a state tradition Ankara had long sold as Western, secular and safe. Jerusalem, Athens and Brussels now face the same mistake: the belief...

Eliezer Avraham

Jun 14, 2026, 5:28 PM

America 250 | Essay 4: From Ellis Island to the American Dream

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A journey of hope and reinvention as families crossed an ocean with faith and determination, weaving Jewish resilience into the American fabric. From Exile to Arrival They came with little more than hope. Between 1880 and 1924, nearly two million Jews...

Maccabi Lev Ari

Jun 13, 2026, 1:31 PM

Sanctioning the Actual Victims of Ethnic Cleansing

How the international debate over Judea and Samaria often ignores the expulsion of Jewish communities between 1948 and 1967 Imagine telling the descendants of Jews expelled from Jerusalem’s Old City that they are foreign colonizers. Imagine telling the grandchildren of...

May 19, 2026, 8:28 PM

The Second Driveway

The first time taught me what to look for. The second time, I already knew. I was fourteen the first time I came home to a driveway full of cars and didn't understand what I was looking at. It was January...

May 4, 2026, 6:40 PM

The Indian Tribe That Walked Halfway Around the World to Israel

A vintage suitcase bearing the Star of David rests on an airport runway at dawn, symbolizing the end of a 2,700 year exile for the Bnei Menashe.

I want to begin with a number: 2,700 years. That is how long ago, according to their own account, the ancestors of the Bnei Menashe left the land that is now Israel. They did not leave willingly. In approximately 722...

Apr 29, 2026, 8:26 PM

Iran Then and Now: A Changed Reality

From Refuge to Hostility: Iran, Jews, and a Changing Narrative In 1942, as World War II tore across continents and dismantled entire lives, nearly a thousand Jewish children arrived in Tehran after a long and devastating journey through Europe...

Apr 29, 2026, 5:51 AM

Forgetting Your First Love/First Country You Flee

I didn’t know it at the time, but I met my first real love when I was fifteen. He was tall and confident, that was my first impression of him. We wouldn’t get together until four years later after...

Apr 22, 2026, 12:17 AM

What the Arab World Taught Us About Anti-Zionism Long Before Ezra Klein

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Dear Ezra Klein, I am a Jewish community leader based in San Francisco, California, directing a national nonprofit that focuses on advancing the heritage, history, and rights of nearly one million Jewish refugees from North Africa and the Middle East....

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