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Aug 2, 2026, 2:29 PM

In the Shadow of the Bronze Priest: An Athenian Pilgrimage

Each Step… A Story… From the bustle of modern Athens—traffic surging, shopkeepers calling, cafés spilling onto narrow sidewalks—the eye is drawn upward. Above the city, the limestone plateau of the Acropolis commands the horizon, crowned by the sun-bleached columns of...

Jul 26, 2026, 9:21 PM

A Palace Where the Healing Waters Never End

More than 180 exhibitors from over 20 countries attracted some 12,000 visitors to IMTM 2026, Israel’s leading international tourism fair held in Tel Aviv in February. It was there, at the Czech Republic’s pavilion, that I met Jan Lukeš from Karlovy...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Jul 24, 2026, 11:50 PM

Supporting Soldiers Shouldn’t Sideline Disabled Civilians

H.R. 9328 has coasted through Congress so far as one of the easiest votes placed before it during one of the most tumultuous periods in modern US history. That may be excellent news for active-duty military personnel and their...

Jaclyn S. Clark

Jul 24, 2026, 8:59 AM

One List Was Built to Hunt Jews. The Other Was Built to Defend Them

(Gemini)

Trump's subpoena got the Holocaust analogies. The mob actually mapping Jews in Italy got a shrug. That reflex isn't protecting us—it's spending us. Yesterday I published a piece about a Google Form in Italy—an anonymous questionnaire asking ordinary Italians to...

Jaclyn S. Clark

Jul 24, 2026, 12:34 AM

A Google form asked where the Jews sleep. History knows what comes next

Italy shut down the crowdsourced 'Mapping Zionist Tourism' questionnaire within days, but the algorithms had already minted new antisemites

Patricia Levinson

Jul 16, 2026, 5:17 AM

Celebrating My Independence 60 Years Ago Was Lifechanging

As I celebrated America's 250th Independence Day in Florida, I could not help but think back to my own celebration of independence 60 years ago. Escaping South Africa, a country then deeply embroiled in the cruelty of apartheid and seeking...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jul 15, 2026, 8:13 PM

Mount Hermon: Israel’s Alps

The Book of Dvarim lists four names for Mount Hermon. The first three, Hermon, Sirion and Snir are found in Dvarim 3:8-9: At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land beyond the Jordan, from...

Jul 14, 2026, 11:05 AM

Halakha’s Kármán Line: Imagined and Real Jews in Space

Ilan Ramon, November 2001, NASA, https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-107/images/high/KSC-02PP-0490.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilan_Ramon,_NASA_photo_portrait_in_orange_suit.jpg, cropped

In the late 1960s or early 1970s, when Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof – the most prolific author of responsa in the American Reform movement – was asked for sources in Jewish law in preparation for “a discussion of the...

Jul 13, 2026, 4:54 AM

The green wave – how to reduce highway travel time

Route 3 - crossing Israel West to Est

How to reduce highway travel time, lower gas consumption, and prevent accidents, at a minimal cost - and why the government won’t do it. We pride ourselves on being the “startup nation”, positioned at the cutting edge of science and...

Jul 12, 2026, 10:29 PM

‘Philadelphia Freedom, shine on me…’

As I walked through the small park beside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, in the final days before the city marked America’s 250th anniversary, one melody felt impossible to escape: Elton John’s Philadelphia Freedom. The song was constantly playing in my mind....

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