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Oct 12, 2026, 7:51 PM

המעטפה הכחולה / The Blue Envelope

My Dear Friends in Israel, I have been thinking about you, about everything these last three years have held, and about the election now only weeks away. Three years after the worst day in Israel’s history, the task now falls...

Talyah Ginsberg

Oct 12, 2026, 6:45 PM

The Country I Left Still Thinks It Knows Me

I have travelled from a war-stricken country to an allegedly crime-ridden one via Addis Ababa, which, depending on how melodramatically one wishes to phrase it, means I crossed deepest, darkest Africa with hand luggage and a nervous system already...

Brendon Stewart Freedman

Oct 6, 2026, 9:39 AM

Should Family Physicians Encourage Patients to Vote?

Voting can empower and perhaps improve health.

What Does Voting Have to Do with Health? What does voting have to do with health? More than you might think. A study of 170 countries found that those with stronger democratic institutions tended to have healthier populations, particularly when those...

Oct 5, 2026, 6:38 PM

American Midterm Elections: Now is the Time to Act

YOUR VOTE IS YOUR VOICE. Elections to the U.S. Congress will take place on November 3, 2026. All 435 districts in the U.S. House of Representatives and 33 seats in the U.S. Senate are up for election. Five of the...

Theodore Sheskin

Oct 1, 2026, 5:51 PM

Negotiate Dual Citizenship for West Bank Settlers

On Sep. 24, 2026, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a recorded video address to the UN General Assembly in which he stated, “We seek a democratic Palestinian state that respects the rule of law and human rights, a...

Sep 30, 2026, 7:36 AM

Israel Votes, Part II: After October 7, What Are Israelis Actually Voting For?

I asked Israelis in Israel and Israelis abroad — soldiers, immigrants, first-time voters and people who have been voting for decades. They did not give me one answer. That may be the answer. In Part I of this series, I...

Sep 27, 2026, 11:07 PM

Could a Victory at Pickaxe Mountain Change the 2026 Midterms?

Donald Trump's problem with Iran extends well beyond the battlefield. The war he has defended as necessary to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is being fought while Americans prepare to vote in the November 3 midterm elections,...

Ophelie Namiech

Sep 27, 2026, 9:44 AM

To Israelis Who Left: On October 27, Israel Needs You Back

A bit more than a year ago, I was ready to leave Israel. My son was registered into a French gan. My winter clothes had been shipped to France. My Israeli husband got his year-long visa. It was a...

Zachary Moskowitz

Sep 25, 2026, 5:29 AM

Hasan Piker Showed Us Who He Is. The University of Texas Should Pay Attention.

In high school in Dallas, I didn't just read about antisemitism. I fought it. I gave presentations, mobilized my community, and spoke up, even when it cost me friends, lots of them. So when it came time to pick...

Sep 24, 2026, 2:53 PM

Pray. Learn. Serve.

Israel is at war. Not a theoretical war. Not a political debate. A real war where reservists have repeatedly left their wives, their children, their businesses and their jobs to put on a uniform and defend the country and the...

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