A few days ago, Ynet published my Hebrew op-ed on the renewed push for the death penalty in Israel. To my surprise, they also translated it into English and released it on Ynetnews, which means many readers outside Israel were suddenly exposed to…
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The Death Penalty Debate and What I Couldn’t Fit into the Column
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The Path of Yaakov and the Path of Each of Us
When a Jew opens the weekly Torah portion, he feels that the words speak to him as vividly and directly as they once spoke to Yaakov. Not because the world has remained unchanged, and not because we resemble the figures of the Torah, but because…
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Why Jew-Hatred Isn’t Just ‘Anti-Semitism’
In the wake of the Tucker Carlson interview with Nick Fuentes and the global eruption of anti-Zionism after the October 7th massacre, we can see how badly our language fails to capture the hostility facing Jews today. These two moments differ in…
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A Sacred Place
A few hours before I went into labor with my first child, I told my husband that I was going to go take the last uninterrupted nap of my life. It was said in jest but I could not have understood how true that would…
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Anti-government activist arrested after calling for forcible removal of ‘traitor’ Netanyahu
Police on Friday arrested anti-government activist Yolanda Yavor, a Tel Aviv University lecturer from Or Akiva, for social media posts allegedly inciting violence against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others.
“The only choice is…
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MAGA Antisemitism Fails with Conservative Christians
In the last couple of weeks, the Republican Party has been torn over questions of antisemitism and free speech after the MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson gave a friendly interview to Nick Fuentes, a Nazi sympathizer and an open antisemite. Senator…
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Bomb threat grounds all departures to Philadelphia Int’l
Bomb threat grounds all departures to Philadelphia Int’l | The Jerusalem PostJerusalem Post/World NewsThe US Federal Aviation Administration ordered all departures from the Philadelphia International Airport to be grounded due to a bomb…
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‘We may have to evacuate’
Officials in a major capital in the Middle East are contemplating drastic measures to manage dire water shortages driven by a severe drought.
What’s happening?
The BBC reported that the Iranian capital of Tehran is on the brink of running out of…
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Trump claims he’s ‘canceling’ Biden autopen-signed orders, pushing legal and politica
In a Truth Social post on Friday, Trump asserted that documents bearing an autopen signature were invalid unless Biden personally signed them, claiming without evidence that aides used the device to bypass a mentally declining president. He said…
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The Ultraviolet Mystery Inside Newborn Stars
Star formation should be a relatively straightforward process. Dense clouds of molecular hydrogen collapse under gravity, fragmenting into cores that grow into protostars. These infant stars are cold, deeply embedded in their parent…
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