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Every Friday night, many Jewish parents place their hands on their children’s heads for one of the most tender moments of the week.

For daughters, the blessing is based on a high degree of logic: we invoke the Matriarchs – Sarah, Rivka,…

There’s a reason people call Israel the Startup Nation. And increasingly, there’s a reason people are calling Texas the Startup State. Both are places where bold ideas scale fast, where frontier challenges spark frontier solutions, and…

Jews in Australia, were shot down because they dared to openly celebrate the Jewish holiday of Chanukah, reminding us, yet again, that those who sought to annihilate the Jewish people in ancient times are still at large in modern times. The…

Parshat Mikeitz begins by telling us that Pharoah’s dreams occurred exactly two years after the butler was released. This was meant to be a hint that Yosef was forced to stay in prison an extra two years, because he put too much faith in…

Ben Shapiro walked onto a Heritage Foundation stage Wednesday week and used it to draw a line against Tucker Carlson and a strain of conservatism Shapiro warned is drifting toward conspiracy theories and antisemitism.

For…

HOW YAHYA SINWAR TURNED ISRAELI VALUES AGAINST ISRAEL

The attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach ignites a question being asked far beyond Australia: how did we get here? Acts of violence that once seemed isolated now feel increasingly connected,…

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History repeats itself. Last week, hatred against Jews once again turned deadly.

During a Chanukah celebration for Australia’s Bondi Beach community, Jews who gathered openly were targeted in a brutal attack. At…

Chanukah will never be the same again.

The Holiday of Lights will, from now on, be filled with sadness, and I will ask my children and grandchildren to never forget Bondi Beach in their future commemorations of the holiday.

My family will…

I have three children. They are three sources of extraordinary light—growing, learning, and striving every day to become good human beings who contribute positively to society. And they spend roughly half of their waking hours as potential…

The callous justifications for the antisemitic massacre on Bondi Beach and the swiftness with which they were generated was shocking and disturbing, albeit not remotely surprising. This abject insensitivity, even cruelty, has become par for…