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Andy Blumenthal

Apr 27, 2025, 4:34 AM

Israel & Gaza: Separating Fact from Fiction

Eighteen months into a conflict marked by unfathomable loss, one of the most disturbing things we see is the reinvention of what actually happened. The terrorists and their supporters spew an endless stream of hate and lies. It is...

Apr 25, 2025, 7:36 PM

From the Otef to Kashmir

Houseboats on Dal Lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo free over Unsplash by Isa Macouzet)

I write this from my study in suburban America, yet the pain that reached me this late April felt as close as my own heartbeat. That afternoon, 26 tourists—25 Indian Hindus and one Nepali guide—climbed a winding road into...

Apr 25, 2025, 2:27 PM

‘Do you cherish life or do you worship death?’ — with Douglas Murray

"I want to draw a very clear line, a dichotomy, democracies and death cults, life or death - do you cherish and love life or do you worship death?" Douglas Murray is a rare breed - a journalist whose search...

Apr 25, 2025, 1:51 PM

Yom Hazikaron 2025, Remembering Alex

Mt Herzl memorial ceremony. Photo (c) T Book, 2025

On Yom Hazikaron, Israel commemorates the lives of fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism - those who sacrificed everything from the earliest days of Zionism to today’s conflicts. A powerful piece often recited during these memorials is Natan Alterman’s...

Apr 25, 2025, 1:44 PM

Isra-el: Struggling with Purpose, An Educational Framework

Key aspects of this new framework include: A shift from compartmentalized, age-specific education (like bar/bat mitzvah projects or one-time Israel trips) to a lifelong, continuous engagement with Israel and Jewish identity. A move from reactive “Israel Advocacy” toward proactive...

Apr 24, 2025, 7:09 PM

They Called, Someone Answered – Reflections on Yom HaShoah

Yom HaShoah was always a difficult day. Of course, starting last year, it has hit a little differently, and harder. Everyone has their own connection to sources of pain, and unfortunately many new wounds have been opened, or reopened....

Youssef Amselem

Apr 23, 2025, 11:07 PM

The Holocaust I didn’t mean to watch

An outdoor music festival site in the late afternoon, viewed through a barbed wire fence in the foreground. Draped over the wire is a tallit. (This image is free for commercial or non-commercial use.)

I don't need to look to the 1940s to mourn; October 7th saw the same mothers shielding babies, homes turned to ashes, bodies piled, nameless...

Apr 23, 2025, 12:44 PM

Interfaith dialogue requires more than words

Both Jewish and Muslim leaders sign the Drumlanrig Accord, a landmark agreement signed by prominent Muslim and Jewish leaders in the UK aimed at fostering unity and cooperation between the two communities, in February 2025 in Spencer House, London. (Ahmed J Versi/The Muslim News)

There was a time, fairly recently, when it seemed almost axiomatic that improving Jewish-Muslim relations in Britain was simply a matter of putting in more effort. More dialogue, more hummus, more workshops. But that assumption no longer holds. The war...

Michael Zoosman

Apr 23, 2025, 8:02 AM

‘No Other Land’ and ‘October 8’: A Necessary Double Feature

The recently released films “No Other Land” and “October 8” are the latest of many documentaries that address issues related to the fraught topic of the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their respective screenings have transformed the box office...

Apr 22, 2025, 6:12 PM

Coachella Didn’t Sell Out Weekend Two. Or Did It?

Deserted Values: Coachella Lost the Plot and Will Continue to Lose Relevance That’s right, word on the street is Coachella was bummed about the ticket sales of the second weekend and were not about to cancel the antisemitic idiot band...

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