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Elchanan Poupko

Jun 9, 2026, 6:51 PM

Settler violence is reshaping religious Zionism

As Kahanist ideas gain ground, religious Zionism's failure to confront settler violence is endangering both Israel's future and the movement's soul

May 29, 2026, 7:58 PM

When Nations Set the Terms Israel Chooses Tolerance Over Temple Restoration

Israeli police arrested 21 Jewish activists in May 2026 as they tried to bring a young goat onto the Temple Mount for a korban Pesach offering during Pesach Sheni. Officers stopped the group at the gate and detained them...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

May 20, 2026, 3:58 PM

Smotrich and the Naked Grammar of the State

Bezalel Smotrich should not be defended, but he should not be misunderstood. That distinction matters. To defend him would be to become an apologist for a politics of dispossession. To denounce him only as an extremist would be easier,...

Apr 26, 2026, 7:34 AM

Making Israel ‘Or Le’Yisrael’ Again

BEHAB (בה”ב) starts next Monday. Behab, a Hebrew acronym for the days Monday, Thursday, and Monday, refers to an ancient post-festival observance following the shalosh regalim—Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot. This observance was rooted in the concern that the intense joy...

Apr 2, 2026, 2:02 AM

From Islam to Christ

I was born in 1989 into a traditional Muslim Arab family in Jordan, a society where religion is deeply woven into the cultural and social fabric of everyday life. Like many others raised in such an environment, Islam was...

Mar 28, 2026, 12:24 AM

To Settle Lebanon

For Israel to settle Lebanon is to further destroy any hope we can hold for peace. Prospects for peace are now little more than fanciful as we stare down a religious war between Judaism, together with its Christian backers,...

Elchanan Poupko

Feb 23, 2026, 9:03 PM

Religious Zionism Cannot Keep Ignoring the Exodus

A new study came out today on a topic that has been all too ignored in the religious Zionist and Modern Orthodox communities, communities that should have cared most about this topic. In the past two years, thousands of second...

Feb 23, 2026, 11:00 AM

Stop Calling the Common Plaza Holy: Rebuild the True Ezrat Yisrael

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a scheduled vote in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on February 22, 2026. The vote would have advanced a bill from Knesset member Avi Maoz of the Noam party to place the entire Western...

Feb 2, 2026, 12:24 PM

Now is our chance to prevent the next hostage crisis

One of the Palestinian prisoners released in a hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas reacts while being carried on people's shoulders after disembarking off one of the buses of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) upon arrival in Ramallah, January 25, 2025. (Zain Jaafar/AFP)

With no Israelis currently in captivity, Israel can finally pass a law that removes kidnapping as a strategic weapon from our enemies’ hands

Jan 20, 2026, 9:00 PM

Psalms of Jabotinsky: Psalm One. The Bond of Generations

God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of Israel. I stand before You as a man bound to his people. From You comes truth— steady and enduring. This truth walks through time and lives in every generation. Your word is alive. It waits its hour and opens when the hour...

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