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Cedric Vloemans

May 22, 2025, 3:51 PM

The myth regarding the occupation of Palestine

Israeli and Palestinian flags next to each other. (Wikicommons, Public Domain. CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated)

The Situation These developments underscore the urgency of a sustainable resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. For decades, the Middle East has been a powder keg whose fuse never seems to be extinguished. Time and again — you could almost set your...

May 1, 2025, 9:53 AM

Aesthetics of Collapse: Kahanists and Meshichistin

Miami Beach. 8 p.m. I’m sitting under the stage lights at a JCC, already weary, realizing I’d been slotted into a lineup built for zingers—shallow talking points delivered in ninety-second bursts, dressed up as discourse. I’m mentally triaging my...

Apr 28, 2025, 8:15 AM

My father reexamined his most deeply held beliefs. Can you?

US President Ronald Reagan, center, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (L), and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney the three-day Economic Summit in Toronto on June 21, 1988. (AP Photo/Fritz Reiss)

We need to address the consequences of the causes we support, whether it's an economic theory, a political party, or the State of Israel

Apr 24, 2025, 1:28 PM

Aesthetic Containment of Bezalel Smotrich

I’m lying on the reformer, mid-Pilates session, in a new workout set already soaked through. My thighs are shaking, breath shallow, but I’m still talking—urgent, fast. “This is the year of the short kings,” I say, pushing through another...

Marc J. Rosenstein

Apr 18, 2025, 5:32 PM

The Jewish Power Blog: The Power of Memory

President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu both seem quite excited about the prospect of encouraging the residents of “uninhabitable” Gaza to “volunteer” to emigrate. Then Mr. Trump could fulfill his dream of opening a resort on Gaza’s beautiful beach,...

Mar 31, 2025, 1:42 PM

We have no other land

We sat in a beautiful room, around 50 of us. Jews and Arabs together, as is usual wherever we go these days. It’s our normality, living in a shared and equal society. We watched the Oscar-winning documentary, ‘I Have No...

Sheldon Kirshner

Mar 26, 2025, 8:30 PM

Israel Is Expanding Its Network Of Settlements

Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government, the most right-wing in Israel's history, is methodically expanding the network of Israeli settlements in the West Bank at a blistering pace, deliberately foreclosing the increasingly remote possibility of a two-state solution with the Palestinians. This...

Mar 5, 2025, 2:16 AM

Bringing Our Hostages Home: A Path Forward

Hostages Square, Tel Aviv

The hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, brokered by the U.S., Qatar, and Egypt, sought a phased release of hostages. Phase one secured the return of 33 hostages in exchange for a ceasefire, more humanitarian aid, Israeli withdrawals from...

Aryeh Schonbrun

Feb 11, 2025, 12:29 AM

MAGA: America’s Hilltop Youth

Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap, 1851-52 (oil on canvas) by Bingham, George Caleb (1811-79); Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. (Public Domain)

Once upon a time, dinosaurs traversed Pangea, one of our planet’s historical supercontinents with ease, unhindered by the vast oceans that have now formed between the landmasses. Smack in the middle of Pangea, lay the Central Pangean Mountains, a...

Tamar Sternthal

Jan 23, 2025, 3:49 PM

CBS is determined to redraw Israel’s map, facts be damned

Kfar Aza and other communities along the Gaza border (Google maps)

Why is the news outlet adopting the jargon of a group that makes no secret of its intention to annihilate the Jewish state?

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