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Oct 26, 2026, 9:04 PM

State Governance and Abuse of Power – New Guardrails for Israeli Democracy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with Ehud Olmert in 2009 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

The next Israeli government must draw a line. What happened cannot happen again — and the reforms needed to prevent it cost nothing and require no constitutional revolution. New laws to constrain abuse of power should be the first...

Oct 26, 2026, 6:08 PM

Rashomon at the Ballot Box

My sisters and I have an expression that returns to us whenever we talk about our childhoods: “Obviously, we grew up in different houses.” In fact, we all grew up together in the same house, with the same parents,...

Ilana K. Levinsky

Oct 26, 2026, 2:11 PM

Excusing Murder and Inheriting Palestine

Hamas is granted an entire history to explain its violence, while Jews are denied the history that explains their very presence. And somehow, this passes for serious scholarship. I would love to know who gave these academics the authority...

Oct 25, 2026, 8:11 AM

Another Time…Another Place?

“Don’t preach Zionism to me.” Those words were not spoken by an “activist” on an American campus. They did not come from Zohran Mamdani, Abdul el-Sayed, Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn or Jean-Luc Mélenchon. They came from an Israeli student for whom...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Oct 24, 2026, 9:09 AM

France Has a Jewish Problem And It Isn’t the Jews

French Jews at the memorial march for Jewish murder victim Mireille Knoll in Paris, March 28, 2018 (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Imagine hundreds of thousands of French Jews pouring into the streets. Imagine them smashing storefronts, setting fires, attacking police officers and turning neighborhoods into battlegrounds. Imagine Jewish demonstrators torching government buildings because they no longer felt safe in their...

Oct 24, 2026, 12:10 AM

A Moment of Truth: Israel’s Momentous Election

An observation on democracy, Zionism, and the future of the Israeli-American alliance On October 27, Israelis will go to the polls to elect the members of their country’s twenty-sixth Knesset. It will be the first national election since the Hamas...

Oct 23, 2026, 11:47 AM

So Now I AM a Zionist

My Flag

I never was a Zionist, I thought. Nonetheless, I ended up living in Israel and thought of myself as an Israeli patriot. It was truly unexpected. As a kid growing up in the Philadelphia area, I wasn’t very aware of...

Oct 23, 2026, 4:13 AM

Zikaron: David Ben-Gurion

In remembrance of Israel’s founding father, and the man who helped turn the oldest national longing in Jewish history into a sovereign reality. “The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and national...

Oct 22, 2026, 10:11 PM

Treasure Trove: On the Upcoming Elections- The Hora, The Hora

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

In the 2002 comedy film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the character Gus Portokalos says "Give me a word, any word, and I'll show you that the root of that word is Greek.” Let’s try it with the dance that...

Oct 22, 2026, 3:40 PM

You are not alone

On a busy Las Vegas street corner . . . the lone protestor held a large sign, “HITLER WAS RIGHT,” declaring his allegiance to the Germany dictator who history records as being responsible for the death of 50 million...

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