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Richard Diamond

May 22, 2026, 6:05 PM

A Holocaust Orphan, a Priest, and the Wall We Built Around the Law

Ronit Kertsner's documentary Torn, screening this week, through May 28, in the Times of Israel's DocuNation The Oral Law was meant to stay oral — flexible, merciful, alive. We wrote it into stone, and now even our most generous statute...

Mar 3, 2026, 7:24 AM

How does World Baseball Classic Eligibility Work?

Many fans ask: How are players eligible for Team Israel if they weren’t born in Israel or don’t currently hold Israeli passports? On Team Israel in 2026, several players qualify under Israel’s Law of Return through their family connections: Matt Bowman...

Feb 28, 2026, 11:53 AM

The Tucker Carlson Test

Tucker Carlson interviews U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee at Ben Gurion Airport in a podcast episode published on February 20, 2026. (Screenshot/X)

DNA, Sovereignty, and the Obsession With Jewish Legitimacy In his interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Tucker Carlson did not rant. He did something more subtle. He asked questions. They sounded simple. Almost disarmingly childlike. Who really has the...

Nov 4, 2025, 8:57 AM

When Prayers Precede Politics

I am not the political voice of my congregation. I am a spiritual voice. My calling is not to tell people how to vote, but to remind them that our prayers provide inspiration and meaning and that they tie...

Janét Aizenstros

Sep 8, 2025, 6:02 AM

Beyond Myth: Israel’s Undeniable Right

International discourse about Israel’s legitimacy is saturated with rhetorical fog, but the air can always be cleared by fact. For Jews, the confrontation with the myth of “Palestine” is not a contest of competing stories but a battle for...

Aug 2, 2025, 12:17 AM

Food Now, Hamas Out

Image caption: A convoy of aid trucks, on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip, awaits permission to drive toward the besieged Palestinian territory on July 27, 2025. Food Now, Hamas Out: Gazans Emigrate to Safety...

Sep 24, 2024, 3:37 AM

Bring Hannah Home!

The Israeli public is now quite appropriately intensely absorbed in the complex matter of returning home the remaining abductees, living or dead, held by Hamas in Gaza. Without in any way attempting to derail or take sides in that...

Jul 30, 2024, 10:54 AM

The Birth of the New Palestine Nation – Part II, The Hope of TIANA

Palestinians dancing Dabke - by Sarah Canbel, courtesy of Wikimedia (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palestinian_Dabkeh.jpg).

This is Part II of a two-article series describing how a New Palestine nation will be borne from the current despair in Gaza and the West Bank and the hope of the PEIS Plan, a novel peace plan that...

Jun 9, 2024, 10:50 PM

How could ‘Zionism is Racism’ have happened

I see many ToI commenters bemoaning the 'bias' and 'antisemitism' of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) - why are they so bothered about Gaza? What about much worse happenings in Sudan, or Yemen, or Syria, or Iran? The...

May 22, 2024, 9:59 PM

Is now the time to prepare to make Aliyah?

Jewish Agency in Israel. Photo by Carrie Hart

Most universities in America are on summer break and maintaining quiet, while others are still dealing with the aftermath of anti-semitic acts against Jewish students on campus. Even with the anti-Israel encampments gone, universities like DePaul in Chicago, have...

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