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Elkana Bar Eitan

Oct 11, 2026, 5:28 PM

At Park Av Synagogue, Rabbi Cosgrove spoke with moral clarity about October 7

Yesterday, I had the honor of attending Shabbat services at Park Avenue Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It was my first time there, and the experience left a strong impression. The historic building is beautiful. Cantor Azi Schwartz, the...

Oct 11, 2026, 2:28 PM

Italy’s Radical Youth Are Celebrating October 7

Protesters hold banners supporting Palestine in a street protest. (Unsplash)

Three years after the Hamas massacre of October 7, part of Italy’s radical youth movement has moved from relativising it to openly celebrating it. Hamas called the attacks an “honorable historic milestone”. Meanwhile, in Italy, young activists said much the...

Oct 11, 2026, 11:39 AM

Blogging for The Times of Israel Can Take You to Places You Never Imagined

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I had never published anything in my life. My first publications came during the pandemic, when I began writing scientific opinion articles on subjects far removed from ophthalmology. As an ophthalmologist from Honduras, I wrote...

Oct 11, 2026, 10:38 AM

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?

Where have all the soldiers gone? (Created with AI)

Growing up in the 1960s, I listened to Peter, Paul and Mary’s version of Where Have All the Flowers Gone all the time (Spotify PP&M ). It was a song of the times, a song about the pointlessness of...

Oct 11, 2026, 4:43 AM

What Flydubai Reveals About the Nobel Prize

Had the attempted Flydubai hijacking succeeded, would we have accepted the UN explaining that the murder of hundreds of innocent people "did not happen in a vacuum"? And would we have awarded someone who supported those words the Nobel...

Oct 11, 2026, 1:12 AM

Peace Requires Justice. The Nobel Peace Prize Requires None

When Henry Kissinger, who oversaw devastating bombing campaigns in Vietnam, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, two members of the Nobel Committee resigned in protest. When Yasser Arafat, leader of a terror organization, received it in 1994, another...

Maccabi Lev Ari

Oct 11, 2026, 1:08 AM

Navi Pillay’s Nobel Win Is Dripping with Israeli Blood

“When you have a whole population oppressed for so long with no remedies, no relief, they are actually forced to resort to armed struggle.” Those were the words of Navi Pillay in an Al Jazeera interview on October 28, 2023,...

Oct 11, 2026, 12:56 AM

Beyond Bibi: The Lesson Israel Must Learn from October 7

There is a perfectly legitimate case for holding Bibi responsible for Israel’s catastrophic failure on October 7. But there is a dangerous leap from blaming him for failing to stop Hamas to treating his leadership as the explanation for...

Oct 10, 2026, 1:40 AM

A letter from a formerly suicidal IDF reservist

(fizkes via iStock)

I didn't think I could get PTSD at my desk job after October 7. My mother knew better – and what she did saved my life

Silas Anastacio

Oct 10, 2026, 1:39 AM

Cris Monteiro Honors Reserve Major Rafael Rozenszajn at City Council Ceremony

Last Tuesday (6), the São Paulo City Council held a solemn ceremony in memory of the victims of the October 7, 2023 attacks, when the Palestinian group Hamas invaded Israel, resulting in more than a thousand deaths and hundreds...

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