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On living with mortal danger and the inexplicable joy of belonging to this people

A personal essay from Israel

I do not know if I will still be here next week. This is not a metaphor. If a one-ton missile falls on my house, no shelter,…

In the midst of war, another war continues to be overlooked. One person murdered every day. An entire classroom lost every month.

Israel’s streets are bleeding from a lack of governance, and the numbers defy comprehension: as of February…

Having lingered in a bomb shelter for approximately 50 hours over the last 7 days, I’ve had time to ponder the Israel/Iran war. My thoughts have covered a spectrum of emotions — from admiration of the remarkable resilience and humanity of…

The Raisina Dialogue has increasingly become more than a conference. It functions as a stage where India signals the principles guiding its foreign policy. This year’s sequence of events — the virtual participation of Israeli Foreign…

Boards often believe their role is to build trust with the communities they serve. In reality, most organizations begin with trust already in place. The responsibility of governance is not to create that trust, but to steward it wisely.

One…

Long before the horror of October 7, Israel was already bleeding from wounds of its own making. These were not external blows alone. They were fractures within our society, our politics, and even our collective spirit. Left to fester, they…

In the last several days the Middle East has again been pulled into a widening confrontation—this time between Israel, Iran, and Iran’s proxy Hezbollah. For many watching from afar it can feel like a tragic recurrence, another round in a…

Eran Rolnik published “Freud in Jerusalem” (Éditions de l’Antilope), about the reception of psychoanalysis in the early years of Zionism.

Part 1
Is psychological language in the media a spread of psychoanalysis or a distortion?

ER:…