Last month, the International Court of Justice rebuked Israel in an advisory opinion for blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza during the course of the Israel-Hamas war there and emphasized that starvation of civilian populations as a method of…
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The blockade of Gaza was legal; withholding humanitarian aid, not so much
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David Ran Toward Goliath with Tehillim on His Lips: A Call to Bnei Torah
The same Torah fire that keeps you in the beit midrash can become the courage that guards it. Every yeshiva bachur knows the story by heart. A shepherd boy, still smelling of sheep, spends his nights composing Tehillim and his days guarding the…
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When Jewish teens commit violence, Israel must enforce the law- even if it hurts
Hilltop Youth attacks aren’t pranks or politics. They are criminal acts that undermine Israel’s morality, legal system, and credibility — and the state’s hesitation to confront them endangers us all. There’s nothing easy about writing…
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Against All Lions
TOLDOS generations. Yitzchak comes across pits in the desert that were filled up since Avraham dug them out. He embarked on an endeavor to dig new pits for water. However upon the first pit, shepherds who let their animals graze in that area…
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The Dangers Of False Peace Deals
For decades, Israel has lived under the illusion-pressure of international promises, diplomatic “breakthroughs,” and grand ceremonies that claim to usher in peace. Again and again, these deals are wrapped in gold-trimmed rhetoric but collapse…
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Say Something
Say Something! In these days of violence unleashed, tenuously subdued, and barely restrained – what is a human being to do? In these days of flagrant public antisemitism intertwined with virulent anti-Zionism – what is a friend of Israel…
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Silence of the Moderates: Breeding Antisemitism
Why decent people look away while the oldest hatred returns The puzzle is not why antisemites speak. Fanatics, conspiracists, and revolutionaries of one kind or another have never lacked for words. The puzzle is why so many of the educated, the…
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Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel — Part IX
One People’s Hope Becomes Another’s Fear Few ideas in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict are as politically consequential or emotionally fraught as Palestinian nationalism. At its core, it expresses a basic human aspiration: the desire to…
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The Mayor Who Showed Up: A Jewish Reflection on Eric Adams’s Leadership
By Dr. Shmuel Legesse Former New York City Government Employee Upcoming Author of Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World: Inspired by the Vision of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks In the two decades I worked for New York City in public service, youth programs,…
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Israel’s Space Power, Commercial Gap
Ofek 19 proves Israel’s edge. Now it must build a civilian engine worthy of it I felt that familiar quickening in the chest when the news broke: Ofek 19 had not only reached orbit, it had begun whispering back its first images. You do not…
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