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G. Orah Adarah Paris

Oct 30, 2026, 5:50 PM

A Pleasure We Share: Why a Pharaoh Appreciated God

Judaism, in every sense, encompasses so many different cultures - perhaps because what defines Jews most of all is a set of values, more so than we are a culture or a religion (when you consider the different traditions...

Richard H. Schwartz

Oct 30, 2026, 3:37 PM

Israel’s Future Depends on Arab Parties Joining Eisenkot Coalition

Israel stands at a critical crossroads. If Gadi Eisenkot’s anti-Netanyahu bloc refuses to cooperate with Arab parties, it could squander an opportunity to form an alternative government, leave Benjamin Netanyahu in power, and deepen the political and diplomatic crises...

Richard H. Schwartz

Oct 29, 2026, 11:01 AM

Will Israel Act Like the Democracy It Claims to Be?

Israel’s democratic character will be tested not by its declarations, but by whether its leaders are willing to include Arab citizens in a government capable of ending political paralysis and pursuing a more secure future. Israel faces a defining democratic...

Samantha Pearlman

Oct 28, 2026, 8:31 PM

We have gotten very good at living like this. Aroma coffee comes with a swirl of foam. Someone is double-parked on Bezalel. People beep before the light turns green. There are weddings on Tuesdays. The sea is full on Saturdays. And there is war. There is...

Richard H. Schwartz

Oct 26, 2026, 10:52 AM

Israel’s Future Is at Stake: Dangers of a Netanyahu Victory

Israel stands at a historic crossroads, and the stakes could hardly be higher. Another victory for Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition would risk deepening the very crises that threaten Israel’s future: weakening democratic institutions, placing an unfair burden...

Oct 26, 2026, 1:50 AM

Israel Votes as Hope for Peace Fades

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Two days before Israelis go to the polls, a new Pew Research Center study reveals just how deeply pessimism has taken hold on both sides of the conflict. Only a small minority of Israelis and Palestinians in the West...

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,...

Richard Diamond

Oct 24, 2026, 9:10 AM

The Middle East – The Lid and the Fault Lines

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Most of the states of the Middle East are coercive arrangements laid over communities that share no common political project and have little reason to trust one another. They hold together while the coercive center holds, and they divide...

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...

Oct 19, 2026, 2:12 AM

No Peace with Nuance

I haven’t even started writing, but I can already hear angry voices saying something is wrong with this article's title. Israel and Palestine existing in the same sentence is enough to cause extreme frustration among some on both sides...

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