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Oct 1, 2026, 8:14 PM

What ‘They Shall Be My People’ Does Not Mean

The Jerusalem Noahide Congress is not the next step toward the House Brit Olam has printed a verse over the First International Noahide Congress and treated the printing as arrival. “And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in...

Theodore Sheskin

Oct 1, 2026, 5:51 PM

Negotiate Dual Citizenship for West Bank Settlers

On Sep. 24, 2026, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a recorded video address to the UN General Assembly in which he stated, “We seek a democratic Palestinian state that respects the rule of law and human rights, a...

Michael Zoosman

Sep 22, 2026, 11:57 PM

Standing Against Ben Gvir’s Yom Kippur Death Wish

Just hours before the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in the Jewish calendar, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir raised the possibility of applying the death penalty to a person whom the Jerusalem...

Sep 22, 2026, 2:27 PM

You Cannot Boycott Israel Only When It Is Convenient

Israeli settlement of Maalah Adumim - image courtesy of Shutterstock

The British Government’s decision to ban trade in goods produced in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria has been presented as a carefully calibrated measure: opposition to the settlements, not a boycott of Israel; pressure on a particular policy,...

Maria Golovanevskaya

Sep 22, 2026, 3:27 AM

Denying settler violence does not make us better allies to Israel

Israelis supporting Palestinian farmers in Burin during olive harvest as part of Rabbis for Human Rights solidarity visit

In 2022 I visited Burin, a small village just south of Nablus and below a Jewish settlement called Yitzhar. I went as part of the weekly solidarity visits organized by Rabbis for Human Rights who accompany Palestinian farmers to...

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Sep 20, 2026, 1:22 PM

Making Yom Kippur count

Yesh Atid MK Debbie Biton taken out by Knesset guards during a a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Fasting is easy. What's hard is taking responsibility not for our close circles, but for those with whom we vehemently disagree

Sep 18, 2026, 5:18 AM

Israel must challenge rather than engage ‘pro-Palestine’ performance politics

The Macklemore battle presents a trap that pro-Israel activists have yet to escape Two options: Either stay silent as more and more celebrities accuse Israel of genocide in ever more prominent forums, and hope the tide will pass, or wield...

Sep 17, 2026, 2:06 PM

Britain’s Israeli Policy Is a Miscalculation

Britain’s foreign secretary has presented sanctions against Israel as a route to Middle East stability. The argument rests on an assumption that history, geography and the record of failed peace initiatives do little to support. The House of Commons has...

Avraham Russell Shalev

Sep 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

Betrayal from Within: Rav Kook, Montagu, Miliband

When British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband stood up in Parliament to announce sweeping sanctions on Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, he made sure to announce that he did so "as a proud British Jew". According to Tim Shipman, writing...

Bernard P. Markowicz

Sep 13, 2026, 4:59 AM

Why Mike Huckabee Drew a Line in the West Bank

His campaign against violent settlers may reveal how American politics is beginning to constrain unconditional support for Israeli policy. The first post used settler violence to test Omer Bartov’s diagnosis of unequal power. The second asked whether Jews could live...

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