It’s official: Brad Lander is running for Congress — and he says he won’t be “doing AIPAC’s bidding” in representing his district if he’s elected.
The line from Lander’s campaign launch video was a dig at…
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The Names History Forgot: Why I Won’t Let My Ancestors Die a Third Time
In a post that has been circulating online, the author explains the concept of pedigree collapse – the idea that, although the math suggests each generation doubles our number of ancestors, human communities historically overlapped so much that…
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The new face of Jewish philanthropy demands accountability and purpose
How much would you pay to save a Jewish life? What about hundreds—or thousands—of lives? When most people think about supporting higher-education institutions, they picture classrooms, textbooks, and graduation ceremonies. Yet in Israel,…
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Trump’s Power Brokers Behind the Curtains
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were never supposed to be the central axis of Trump’s second-term foreign policy. Yet here they are — two unelected power brokers who have managed, once again, to dominate some of the world’s most volatile…
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Finding Light: Hanukkah Reflections
Last Hanukkah, as I lit the menorah in my New York apartment, I felt a flicker of both warmth and grief. The soft glow of the candles reflected against the window, and for a moment, the world outside felt still. But behind that quiet was…
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Where did Yehuda go?
After Yosef was sold, we read about Yehuda going down from Dotan to Adullam (Breisheet 38:1): It was at that time that Yehuda went down from his brothers and camped near an Adullamite named Hira. Rashi comments that this narrative is placed here…
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I Finally Made It to Israel and It was a Life-changing Adventure
This is the second column of a three-part series about the author’s recent trip to Israel. I want to begin by happily saying, ”I made it to Israel for the Evolve Hadassah Paced to Please trip! Unfortunately, due to flight cancelations, I…
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Queueing for Auschwitz
On the first morning of a seminar at the Auschwitz Memorial, I stepped out of the guesthouse to get breakfast and found myself staring at something my mind simply refused to process: a queue. Not a small line, not a manageable cluster of early…
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I Beg My Pardon
For many years, when allegations against Netanyahu surfaced for ill-judged behaviour, corrupt conduct and bribery, Netanyahu repeated the mantra: There was nothing. There is nothing. There will be nothing. Netanyahu stopped repeating the mantra…
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Israel’s Liver Cancer Fight Gets More Urgent
As CEO of an Israeli biotech startup focused on liver cancer treatment, I’ve spent years studying the global landscape of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) — the most common form of liver cancer and one of the world’s deadliest malignancies….
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