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Sep 25, 2026, 11:50 PM

The Netanyahu Bogeyman

Benjamin Netanyahu, Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, Ghazi Hamad, Nabih Berri

The Netanyahu Bogeyman: How Israel's Enemies Hide Behind One Name There's a cynical playbook at work in the campaign against Israel, and it starts with two words: Benjamin Netanyahu. For those who seek to delegitimize the Jewish state, Netanyahu has...

Sep 23, 2026, 11:01 AM

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Golda Meir looks different to me after October 7. My uncle Yossi Peer’s younger brother was Ze’ev Peer, Zeevik. He was 19 when the Yom Kippur War began and served in a tank unit. On October 7, 1973, his tank...

Michael Bresler

Sep 20, 2026, 4:49 AM

What We Learn When We Go Without

I'll be fasting on Yom Kippur. I've done it for most of my life. And every year, somewhere around the middle of the afternoon, I find myself thinking about food. And water. Definitely water. And yeah sometimes in more of a...

Sep 18, 2026, 6:50 PM

If You Have ‘F***-You Money’, Why Not Use It for Something Good?

Robert Kraft, Pink, and Jerry Seinfeld. Photos: David Silverman / New England Patriots and Dmileson, CC BY-SA 4.0; David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0. AI-assisted montage and black-and-white adaptation by The Jew News Review, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0

Kraft, Pink, Seinfeld and the courage to speak up for Jews—even when success can’t shield you from the backlash. There’s a wonderfully inelegant expression for having enough money that you no longer have to worry about offending the people who...

Eliyahu V. Sapir

Sep 15, 2026, 11:47 AM

The seat at the table

TL;DR: The most misleading seat at the table is the one offered after the table has already been set. Jewish leaders can mistake access for influence, surrendering leverage while giving institutions legitimacy in return. The real question is not...

Sep 15, 2026, 12:16 AM

From the Field to Abraham’s Table

PM Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, Bahrain FM Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani and UAE FM Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan sign the Abraham Accords at the White House, September 15, 2020. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)

Why women-led civic relationships must help shape the next chapter of Middle East diplomacy Six years after the signing of the Abraham Accords, the foundations for the next peace agreement may already be under construction. Peace agreements are dramatic. Peacebuilding rarely...

Sherwin Pomerantz

Sep 14, 2026, 9:46 AM

The Need to Restore Dignity to Society

I was transfixed recently by the ceremonies attendant to the burial of the late King Harald V of Norway and the assumption of the throne by his son, King Haakan VIII, all of this taking place in the capital...

Ariela Di Gioacchino

Sep 11, 2026, 2:57 PM

This New Year, Make Room for Young Jewish Leaders

If I had to describe this year, I would start with a picture of a hug I was lucky to be part of. Holding and being held, as if the world around us had gone quiet for a second....

Stephen A. Cooper

Sep 9, 2026, 11:18 PM

Please restore Jeffery Lee’s LWOP sentence

An open letter to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey Looking back, in 2016, on his career for an article in the Selma Times-Journal, retired Alabama Judge Jack Meigs “said serving as a judge wasn’t an easy task.” He elaborated: “I didn’t...

Sep 9, 2026, 11:13 PM

Walking Beside, Not Ahead: Mentorship, Leadership, & Continuity

When I retired from my role as a Jewish Federation CEO, I imagined that leadership would gradually recede from my daily life. Fewer decisions, fewer urgent calls, fewer moments when responsibility felt so immediate. What I did not anticipate...

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