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Oct 7, 2026, 2:33 PM

An oasis of unity and comfort in Hostages Square

Amidst the post-October 7th discord and divisiveness, the Masorti Movement’s daily singing and prayer circle was a safe place of comfort and unity for all

Purna Lal Chakma

Oct 1, 2026, 1:01 PM

Should Israel Allow All-Muslim Cockpits on Israel-Bound Flights?

After the FZ1073 incident, Israel faces a difficult aviation-security question: should all-Muslim cockpits on Israel-bound flights receive additional scrutiny? AI editorial illustration created by the author for this article.

On September 30, 2026, Flydubai Flight FZ1073 was flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv when, for roughly 30 seconds, the Boeing 737 carrying more than 170 people plunged nearly 14,000 feet. Inside the cockpit, Captain Smit Machchhar was bleeding...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:06 PM

The AI Race Meets Reality

“The AI war has already begun, which is both the problem and part of the solution.” That is how I opened an article about a year ago. I meant that competition would produce unexpected results and make it harder...

Sep 7, 2026, 1:30 PM

The New and Improved David Intercontinental Tel Aviv

With a long line of hotels along the Tel Aviv seashore, what makes the David Intercontinental stand out? As someone who had been lucky enough to stay in numerous luxury hotels in Israel and worldwide, I felt uniquely qualified to check it...

Sep 4, 2026, 3:47 PM

It is a chilling prophecy. The brutality of its truth is written across the tear-stained pages of Jewish history. All nations will ask, “Why did God do this to this land? Why the (sheer) wrath of this great anger?” They...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Sep 4, 2026, 4:59 AM

Yayoi Kusama, Selfies, and Self-Obliteration

At the Yayoi Kusama retrospective, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2015. Photo: Susanne Nilsson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Every image we make of ourselves seems to add something. One more selfie, one more profile, one more clip: a little more presence, a little more of us in the world. The assumption is so ordinary that it is...

Aug 28, 2026, 10:29 AM

The Altneu Beginning

The Jews stood on the cusp of the realization of a dream, first envisioned over a quarter of a millennium earlier. Whether as drifting strangers in the Land of Canaan, beaten slaves in Egypt, or weary wanderers in the...

Aug 27, 2026, 5:20 AM

When Where I Live Requires an Explanation

Before I left Israel for a week-long vacation to the Turkish riviera, I took off my necklace. It was a simple gold necklace with my name written in Hebrew. I had worn it almost every day since moving to Tel...

Aug 18, 2026, 6:25 PM

It’s Hotter than Hell, But We Don’t Build Cool Cities

Source: Wikipedia

It doesn’t take a genius to understand that Israel has a hot climate. It’s the Middle East after all. But extreme heat events are increasing in frequency alongside average temperatures. According to the Israel Meteorological Service, 2025 was 1.1°C...

Barry Mellinger

Jul 20, 2026, 6:07 PM

Influencing antisemitism

Braden Eric Peters, who performs as Clavicular, landed in Tel Aviv. Within hours, the people who perform the fight against antisemitism were not fighting him. They were fighting each other. I am tired of the spineless populism dressed up in...

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