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Jul 29, 2026, 2:24 PM

Settler Violence Benefits Israel’s Detractors

Every criminal act committed by an Israeli deserves unequivocal condemnation, arrest, and prosecution. Judaism does not permit vigilantism, and Israel, as a democratic state governed by the rule of law, cannot tolerate Jews who assault innocent Palestinians or destroy...

Natalie Sopinsky

Jul 29, 2026, 1:27 PM

The lie of the soft life

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No matter where you live, watching someone you love suffer and knowing you cannot ease their pain is hard. Israel trusts us to manage anyway

Jul 28, 2026, 9:45 AM

I am an “Armed Settler.” Here Is What the Media Never Tells You.

I am an "armed settler." Today I took 150 Jewish children on a camp trip. To do that, I needed a security detail worthy of a foreign diplomat entering a war zone. We think we know what the international media means...

Jul 26, 2026, 12:52 PM

An Armed Fringe Is Not Defending Israel. It Is Hijacking the State

A sovereign state alone determines where its soldiers fight, which civilian presence it can defend and how it resolves the political future of millions of Palestinians. No faction may manufacture danger, commandeer the army, convert casualties into political authority...

Jul 23, 2026, 6:46 PM

Dispelling the Settlement Myth

Those who deny the Jewish people's right to sovereignty in their ancestral homeland often insist that their objection to Israel is not directed against the Jewish state itself, but only against the presence of Israeli communities—commonly referred to as...

Linda Pardes Friedburg

Jul 23, 2026, 10:22 AM

Tzur Misgabi – Strengthening Jewish Life in Judea

"Behold, Hashem your God has given you the Land. Go up and inherit it...Do not fear and do not be discouraged." (Devarim 1:21) We must be unequivocal about the rights of Jews to live everywhere in the land of Israel...

Charlotte Mendel

Jul 12, 2026, 9:46 PM

Know thy enemy. My second shift of protective presence

Photo by Charlotte Mendel 2026

I cannot sleep the night before my second shift. I throw up around midnight. Nerves, and too much vodka. Why does it fill me with horror to go back? Most of the time I am filming kids younger than...

Jul 10, 2026, 1:42 PM

What is the ‘settler violence’ actually about?

“It’s self defense.” “It’s revenge.” “There’s two sides to the story but the media only shows one side.” “It’s a small number of at-risk youth.” “The military is failing to enforce the law and needs to try harder.” “The military is complicit.” “The vast majority...

Marc J. Rosenstein

Jul 10, 2026, 8:41 AM

The Jewish Power Blog: Though He Tarry

The Talmud relates that Rabbi Joshua ben Levi one day ran into Elijah (which he is said to have done occasionally), and asked him when the messiah would come. Elijah told him to go ask the messiah himself, and...

Richard Diamond

Jun 24, 2026, 8:54 PM

The Deterioration of American Jewry’s Unconditional Solidarity with Israel

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The Grief of Estrangement There is a particular kind of grief that has no clean name — the grief of loving something so completely that you never thought to examine the conditions of that love, until the day you realize...

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