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I’m a loud and proud Jewish American Zionist and a centrist—and I condemn settler violence and anti-Arab violence.

Being a Zionist does not mean…

Why Tucker Carlson might actually be helping rebuild the Third Temple…
Yes, really.

Recently, Tucker Carlson went on a rant suggesting that Chabad-Lubavitch is pushing the war with Iran to help rebuild the Third Temple.
Talk about Jewish…

In his 1969 novel “The Golem” (translated into English in 1982), Isaac Bashevis Singer brings to life another Golem story, the first of which dates to the Jewish mystic Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel (the Maharal) in the late 1500s….

I am writing in the wake of three recent attacks on Toronto synagogues in which bullets were fired at Temple Emanu-El, Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, and Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto (BAYT).  I provided relevant information to police and…

When the phone rang at 1 a.m. on Saturday night, it was pretty clear that this must be a minor medical emergency. And it was even clearer where I would be heading. My mother at 91 continues to soldier on, facing an intimidating array of…

There are bad ideas, and then there are ideas that sound like they were brainstormed by people who have been locked in a conference room with too many consultants and not enough shame.

This is one of those ideas.

The Board of Peace, the body…

Ping! 

A Slack message from one of the developers at 4:28 am local time. It reads

GIlbert!!

O. told me to ask you about unit 191

he said it’s someone you know? I”m asking because it generates a lot of errors related to the engines not…

Gimme a break.  What is going on in this crazy world?

Israel, United States, Turkey, and every Arab nation in the Middle East has taken a position against Iran. They are actually working together and cooperating to put Iran and its insane…

As the Winter Paralympics begin, I find myself reflecting on the resilience of Israel’s athletes – and the country they represent.

This week, as the Winter Paralympic Games open in Cortina, Italy, Israel will be represented by a single…

In the early days of 1979, Israeli diplomats in Tehran watched as crowds gathered outside of their embassy gates. For decades, they had lived quietly in the Iranian capital, part of a remarkably durable (albeit fraught) partnership between…