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Jun 22, 2026, 7:12 PM

The Homecoming of Tel Aviv Pride

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After a tense week in Israel I didn’t want to get my hopes up that attending my first ever Tel Aviv pride would actually happen. Even walking down to the beach with the thousands of others draped in colours...

Jun 18, 2026, 10:32 PM

Confronting The Snake

It takes us just a week to read a story that spans almost forty years. Punished for ingratitude and lack of faith, the Jews were forced to wander in the wilderness. Parashat Chukat describes thirty-eight years of those travels....

Jun 4, 2026, 4:34 AM

Tel Aviv celebrates what its neighbors criminalize

Tel Aviv Pride, 2019 – where rainbow flags and the Star of David meet in one of the region’s most visible displays of LGBTQ+ freedom. (Ted Eytan / Wikimedia Commons)

On June 12, a quarter-million bodies will press against the Mediterranean shoreline of Tel Aviv-Yafo for the 28th edition of what has calcified into the most consequential Pride procession in the Middle East – and, by any honest geopolitical...

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...

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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...

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