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Shaike Komornik

Oct 30, 2026, 4:53 PM

2026 Election: Political Deadlock Brings Arab Parties to Center Stage

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The final results of the 26th Knesset election have left Israel facing one of its most complex political crises in recent years. Benjamin Netanyahu leads the largest party, Likud, with 27 seats, but his bloc secured only 53 seats,...

Oct 26, 2026, 6:55 PM

The Jews American Screens Never Show

A few nights before my wedding, my mom painted my palms with henna. I wore the keswa el kbira, the “great dress,” a deep burgundy skirt and bodice made of velvet, heavy with gold embroidery. Jews expelled from Spain carried...

Oct 25, 2026, 11:43 PM

Dan Illouz Interview: ‘About a million Israelis carry Morocco in their names’

Former Israeli Knesset member Dan Illouz, of Moroccan Jewish descent, pictured against a background featuring the flags of Morocco and Israel. (AI-edited image based on an original photograph by Sharon Hasson/Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.)

When Dan Illouz stood before an international gathering of parliamentarians in Marrakech in June 2023, his presence carried a significance that extended beyond the diplomatic rapprochement between Israel and Morocco. The Israeli lawmaker, born in Montreal to Moroccan Jewish...

Oct 20, 2026, 5:50 AM

Magal’s ‘Moroccan monkey’ is Netanyahu’s Israel speaking

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On Saturday night, on the flagship panel show of the network that has spent years serving as Benjamin Netanyahu’s in-house megaphone, Yinon Magal looked into the camera and called Gadi Eisenkot a monkey. He did not misspeak. He repeated...

Jonathan Shavit

Oct 9, 2026, 6:21 PM

Children of Abraham: A review

Published this year, its author Marc David Baer attempts to apply much-needed nuance to a topic, Jewish-Muslim relations, that usually veers into myths of interfaith utopia or perennial antagonism. Spanning the period from Islamic rule to the present, Baer...

Sep 13, 2026, 11:30 PM

This Arabic Jew

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When I call myself an Arab Jew, it never fails to provoke both emotional and intellectual objections from those who insist there is no such thing. While Arabized may be the more historically precise term, I find it too...

Kathleen J. Rusnak

Aug 21, 2026, 1:16 AM

How Western Dreams of Peace Crash on Israeli Soil

Western Peace Gestures Meet Israel's Raw Realities

Liberal peace initiatives and even “woke” ideals are familiar concepts to me. Born in Euclid, Ohio and ordained as an ELCA Lutheran minister, I’m also a member of an Episcopal church in New Hampshire. Additionally—having lived in Israel—I feel...

Jul 27, 2026, 12:41 PM

Judaism is Not a Religion

It has been awhile since I took to these pages. This past March the Ayatollah Kohmeni sent ballistic missiles to Israel which unfortunately kept us from attending our grandson’s bar-mitzvah in America. My beautiful wife and I took the...

Eliezer Avraham

Jul 23, 2026, 9:30 AM

The Rebuilding Chronicles

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A Journey Through Loneliness, Brokenness, Destruction and Renewal A lighthouse for the weary soul, a companion for Tisha B’Av and the dawn that follows Every soul that rebuilds walks through four pillars: Loneliness, Brokenness, Destruction and Renewal. These are not obstacles....

Eliezer Avraham

Jul 19, 2026, 2:40 PM

When the Gates Tremble: El Nora Alila as a Path Toward Tisha B’Av

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A reflection on return, memory, and the strength that prepares us for Tisha B’Av Sanctifying Memory As the days move closer to Tisha B’Av, we enter a season when Jewish memory becomes a moral discipline. Other civilizations bury their defeats, erase...

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