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Sep 9, 2026, 2:34 PM

What If The Wolf Never Hid?

New Yorkers keep acting surprised by Zohran Mamdani. Maybe the question isn't what he hid from us. Maybe it's whether we ever bothered to look. Terminology note: Wherever possible, I use “Gazans” when referring specifically to the people of Gaza....

Sep 6, 2026, 2:51 PM

The Angel from Worcester

Worcester Cemetery: The Gravesite of Rav Avraham Kaufman

How prayers at Ancestors’ Graves Opened the Way to an Astonishing Encounter “Do you mean you met Elijah the Prophet?” I was giving a sermon at a shtiebel by my brother Baruch’s home in Brooklyn near Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. ...

Sep 6, 2026, 1:34 PM

Preventive Restitution: A New Frontier in International Law

I want to share with The Times of Israel readers a scholarly article that I have co-authored with Dr. Dmytro Hrebeniuk, Associate Professor at the National University “Odesa Law Academy,” where I am currently pursuing my PhD in international...

Sep 6, 2026, 7:22 AM

Mordechai & Mamdani: Stand Up

What happened in Boro Park yesterday (September 2nd) bothered me. Zohran Mamdani walks into the heart of one of New York’s largest Jewish communities, after everything he has said about Israel, and suddenly there are smiles, gifts, photo ops and...

Mansoor H. Laghari

Sep 6, 2026, 7:08 AM

Why Don’t More Muslims Speak Up?

Why Don’t More Muslims Speak Up? The Answer Is Harder Than the Question “Why don’t Muslims speak up?” I hear this question constantly, particularly from Jewish friends confronting antisemitism, Islamist extremism and the glorification of terrorist organizations. It is a legitimate question. Muslims...

Sep 1, 2026, 8:11 AM

You Can Run From Zionism. But You Can Never Escape Your Judaism

Brad Lander, a progressive Jewish politician in New York, attending Zohran Mamdani's primary election watch party in June 2025. (Heather Khalifa/AP)

Brad Lander has spent years of his political career trying to prove that being Jewish does not require being a supporter of Israel. Last weekend, he was shown that people don't care. Lander, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 10th...

Aug 31, 2026, 9:29 AM

Lessons from Common-Sense Billionaire John Catsimatidis

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Over the past few years, I have had the tremendous pleasure of meeting John Catsimatidis, his lovely wife Margo and his amazing kids AJ and John Jr in NYC. Whether it be at the Union League Club, a Jexodus...

Aug 26, 2026, 9:47 AM

If the West Falls, the Planet Will Follow: Cambridge and the Woke Agenda

The death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday should indeed be a reason for reflection, as British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said. Reflection, however, should mean that we resist both the sanctification of Arday and his complete condemnation. We do not...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Aug 24, 2026, 11:01 AM

The Stories Nations Must Tell About Themselves

Many Israelis, or members of their families, arrived in modern Israel under terrible, complicated, or what must have felt like impossible circumstances. Tens of thousands of Teimanim, Yemenite Jews, were brought to Israel through Operation On Wings of Eagles,...

Aug 21, 2026, 9:54 PM

Those Were The Days My Friend

“Mordechai, have you read the article in the New York Times accusing Israeli soldiers of raping Palestinians? Moshe asked. It’s so bad that Bibi is planning on suing the Times for libel, and other Israeli politicians are ordering their...

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