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Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Oct 25, 2026, 6:33 AM

Important Lessons from Peace Negotiations

What are the most important lessons from past Israeli–Palestinian peace negotiations? For thirteen years, I researched and wrote Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Critical Study of Peace Negotiations, Mediation and Facilitation between Israel and the PLO (Cambridge University Press,...

Oct 23, 2026, 11:39 AM

Einstein, Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, and the Distance Between AI and Peace

Einstein, Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, and the Distance Between AI and Peace. An AI Illustration.

The essay’s thesis: The promise of peace is what artificial intelligence (AI) makes possible. The prospect is whether conscience, institutions and inner discipline grow fast enough to govern that possibility. The distance between them is the subject of this...

Leetal Caidar Benzvi

Oct 12, 2026, 7:31 PM

From Survival to Kindness: What Three Weeks in Asia Taught Me

What three weeks in Singapore and Vietnam taught me about trauma, safety, and the courage to remain human. I have just returned to Israel after three weeks in Singapore and Vietnam, and I find myself carrying something home that I...

Sharon Weiss-Greenberg

Sep 25, 2026, 10:41 AM

I thought a sukkah was fragile; the border kibbutzim proved me wrong

In Kfar Aza, after October 7th. (Tzipora Lifchitz)

Rain cancels the mitzvah, but grief does not: You must come out and sit under the thatched roof - not to rejoice, but to show up. That is resilience

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Sep 22, 2026, 3:18 AM

The Civilian Black Box

The Civilian Black Box When an airliner crashes, we search for the black box. We recover the flight-data recorder. We recover the cockpit-voice recorder. Investigators reconstruct what the aircraft was doing, what its systems were doing, what the crew knew and what happened...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 16, 2026, 12:14 PM

Repentance and Atonement in Islam and Judaism

In Islam and Judaism confessing one has sinned is just the first step in the process of atonement and forgiveness. Neither religion has a doctrine of original sin. Both religions declare that everyone who sins is capable of returning...

Allen S. Maller

Sep 5, 2026, 10:14 AM

Qiyamah El Ninos For Dajjal, Mahdi and Messiahs At Work

Over 50 years, three El Niño events were considered “extreme”: 1982-83, 1997-98 and 2015-16, said Michael McPhaden, a senior scientist. This current El Niño will rival those previous record El Niños, if not exceed them in magnitude, McPhaden said. "With...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 26, 2026, 8:34 PM

Jewish Wisdom Stories Retold by Rabbi Allen S. Maller

Rabbi Shmuel Arieh, who once lived in the village of Koshilovitz, where the Baal Shem Tov had worked as a shohet (slaughter) before his greatness was revealed, related this to me: “I met an 80 year old shohet in...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 21, 2026, 5:23 AM

There Is No Voting In Gaza; But There Are Polls

A Poll by Dr. Khalil Shikaki (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research) found that only 20% of Palestinians say that Hamas emerged victorious from the war in Gaza, according to a poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 2, 2026, 4:49 AM

“From River to Sea Both Sides Must Free Themselves+End Hatred and Suffering”

Iran should learn from the 1979 peace treaty signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat that was witnessed by President Jimmy Carter at the White House that is still alive, even though Hamas opposed...

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