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Oct 19, 2026, 1:25 PM

China Lectures Israel on the West Bank: What About Tibet?

CIA Map of Tibet with "Approximate Line of Communist Advance" and cities "Reportedly occupied by Communists" dated February 1950 and marked "CONFIDENTIAL". (Source: Wikimedia Commons).

On 15 October 2026, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly urged Israeli President Isaac Herzog to halt and reverse what Beijing calls the “forced establishment” of settlements in the occupied West Bank. This was stated when the two leaders...

Oct 19, 2026, 12:16 AM

When the Promised Land Has a Famine

Some days I wonder whether I'm doing something wrong. Not because anything terrible has happened, but because life seems harder than I expected. The bills keep coming, the house needs repairs, work brings new challenges, and just when I...

Husein Mahmoud Saleh

Oct 17, 2026, 5:42 PM

When Faith Is Forced

An economy that loses half its potential. No state rises while restricting education, research, the arts, and women's work. Brain drain and capital flight are the natural consequences of this pattern. The greatest loss is religion itself. When Islam becomes...

Oct 17, 2026, 9:28 AM

Flight FZ1073: The Script That Didn’t Run

Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Captain Smit Machchhar over a video call. October 2, 2026 (Credit: PIB India/X).

Whatever was planned for Flydubai Flight FZ1073, the world was ready to tell one story, and India should ask why. Consider the version of 30 September that didn’t happen. Captain Smit Machchhar does not reach the door release. The aircraft does...

Oct 15, 2026, 11:41 PM

Religion fuels conflict. It can also help put it out.

Extremists aim to turn Israel-Palestine into a holy war. But Israelis and Palestinians aren't fully buying it — and people of good faith can intervene. In recent weeks, my social media feeds filled with clips of Jewish religious extremists hijacking...

Jonathan Muskat

Oct 15, 2026, 7:58 PM

When Torah Challenges Our Moral Intuitions

A student recently wrote to me about something she had learned in class. She was studying Yehoshua’s conquest of Eretz Yisrael and was troubled by the Torah’s command to destroy the Canaanite nations, including women and children. When she...

Oct 13, 2026, 10:31 AM

A list of the people you have lost

Every Jewish calendar I have used has a page most people never look at until they need it. It holds a short list: a name, a Hebrew date, sometimes a relationship. Father. Grandmother. A brother. It tells you when...

Oct 9, 2026, 6:31 AM

What “A House of Prayer for All Nations” Does Not Mean

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Isaiah 56:7 invites people to serve Hashem. It does not invite anyone, Jew or gentile, to bring a service of their own up the mountain. The sentence you were handed You may have heard that the day has a simple shape....

Ruthie Hollander

Oct 8, 2026, 11:15 PM

When God grieves: Ayeka, Eikha

I recently tried to explain the concept of a rhetorical question to my 4-year-old. “I know the answer to the question,” I told her. “I’m asking because I want you to think about it.” In Parashat Bereishit, mankind is asked...

Barry Mellinger

Oct 7, 2026, 11:47 PM

Never Again Is for Us

I am the grandson of Holocaust survivors, barely survivors, who walked out of the camps into a silence so total it could scarcely be understood. I have written elsewhere about what this meant for my own family. I mention it...

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