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May 30, 2026, 5:14 PM

Treasure Trove: About Maccabi Tel Aviv’s 1956 Soccer Match in Toronto

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

This June and July, Toronto will host six games in the FIFA World Cup. These are important, but Toronto is no stranger to important soccer matches. Seventy years ago, Maccabi Tel Aviv played the Ontario All Stars at Maple...

May 28, 2026, 2:15 PM

A Crisis of Leadership

It is a moment unparalleled in the whole Torah. Moshe, until now the Jewish People’s greatest advocate, reaches his breaking point. He complains that he was given the burden of leading the Jewish People; he says his death would...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 27, 2026, 11:18 AM

Europe Needs Israel to Join the European Union

Europe is careening toward strategic irrelevance as Iranian proxies tighten their noose around its southern flank and radical Islam spreads through its streets and no-go zones. Israel is the hard-power partner the European Union can no longer afford to...

May 15, 2026, 6:50 PM

Navy Whaleboat: From Port Jefferson and New Bedford to Israel’s Exodus Legacy

From the Palyam to Hadassah Neurim: The Whaleboat Returns to Israel. Quietly, inside the Hadassah Neurim youth village along Israel’s coastal highway, an unusual maritime project is taking shape these days: the first authentic historical whaleboat ever to be built...

May 14, 2026, 1:18 PM

The Flag of Humanity

“If they ask me derisively, what is this flag? … a flag is something symbolic and national and with a flag one leads people anywhere one wants, even to the Promised Land. People live and die for a flag...” These...

May 7, 2026, 10:58 AM

The Trappings of Israel

Almost all great civilizations have a common life cycle. They organize, ascend, mature, overextend and decline. Their rise often comes from a collective narrative or goal. Their descent, from abandoning or not cherishing it. Their rise often comes from...

May 6, 2026, 8:27 PM

Microalgae could become the future of urban clean air

Air pollution is no longer merely a technical issue discussed by environmentalists or scientists. Today, from Tel Aviv to Haifa, from Istanbul to Delhi, millions of people wake up every morning inside an invisible threat. Due to traffic, industrial...

Apr 23, 2026, 10:55 PM

One of the most simple, profound and moving of Judaism’s principles is a comment made by R. Akiva regarding a passuk in this week's parasha: ואהבת לרעך כמוך - אמר רבי עקיבא זה כלל גדול בתורה (רש"י, ויקרא יח:יט) You should love...

Adele Stowe-Lindner

Apr 21, 2026, 1:22 PM

Walking Warsaw Ghetto, While My Child Is in Israel

A year ago, I planned a three-generation family journey to Poland for April 2026: my Polish-born father, my husband and me, and our two teenage sons. We would visit Warsaw, where my grandparents’ families had lived for generations until they...

Apr 16, 2026, 11:46 PM

Where Body and Soul Meet

It is a phenomenon unlike any in the Torah. Tzaraat, often mistranslated as leprosy, has no real translation, just like it has no real analogue or rational explanation. It was, for want of a better word, a “disease” that...

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