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Menachem Rosensaft

Nov 5, 2026, 10:03 PM

A flickering light in an ever-darkening darkness

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove - Park Avenue Synagogue livestream

Ever since the passing of Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel in 2016 and the death of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks four years later, world Jewry has been without a clarion moral voice in the prophetic...

Oct 31, 2026, 5:04 PM

What Just Happened and What Could Happen Next

It is 4 days after the Israeli elections and my head is still spinning at what turned out to be truly disappointing results of what seemed to have been an incredibly well executed campaign by the opposition vs. a...

Oct 30, 2026, 1:03 PM

A Hundred and Twenty

On November 10, 2015, Portugal's prime minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, accused the left in the Lisbon parliament of assembling a negative majority to bring down a government that had won the election, and he was right about the ballot...

Oct 29, 2026, 11:24 AM

Israel’s Arab Parties Hold the Balance of Power. Now What?

Israel may be heading toward another election, but the real question is whether its political leaders are prepared to accept what the voters have told them. Israel has voted. And somehow, we may be right back where we started. Neither Benjamin...

Oct 28, 2026, 8:25 PM

What Do You Take for a Hangover

Israel's election has exposed the cost of doing business in Israeli politics The aftermath of elections in Israel feels to me like a bad hangover. Or something worse. Before deciding whether to celebrate or sink into the pit of despair,...

Tobey Finkelstein

Oct 28, 2026, 4:44 PM

I made a mistake this election

Last week, I heard an Otzma interview, addressing how we misinterpret their extreme rhetoric. They claim they have to speak this way - because they're speaking to the Arabs. In the only language they understand: Threats. Noose pins and...

Oct 20, 2026, 3:59 PM

It’s the final countdown

own work

Remember the days when the results of elections were a complete surprise? Remember waking up to find the polls had got it wrong and the results changed between midnight and 6:00 am the next day? Oh yeah. The last elections,...

Oct 15, 2026, 11:41 PM

Religion fuels conflict. It can also help put it out.

Extremists aim to turn Israel-Palestine into a holy war. But Israelis and Palestinians aren't fully buying it — and people of good faith can intervene. In recent weeks, my social media feeds filled with clips of Jewish religious extremists hijacking...

Menucha Saitowitz

Sep 23, 2026, 7:08 PM

Take the penny: What Jewish Israelis owe Arabs choosing political participation

What Jewish Israelis owe Arabs who choose political participation

Sep 1, 2026, 12:14 AM

Israel’s Arab Parties: Three Visions and the Mansour Abbas Gamble

As Israel heads toward the October 27, 2026 election, just over one in five Israeli citizens is Arab. Yet for much of the Jewish public — and even more so for outside observers — their political representation is often...

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