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I write this from a religious freedom conference convened by Empower Women Media, led by Iranian-American advocate Shirin Taber and Lebanese-American leader Astrid Hajjar. The Iranian voices in that room were not whispering — they were…

An incident that took place earlier this week between the Jewish community of Shiloh and the Palestinian village of Qaryut in the Binyamin region reveals a great deal about Palestinian propaganda and its servants in the Israeli press, as well…

The brief story of Amalek is perhaps the oddest story in the Five Books of Moses.

Ostensibly, Amalek, whether a terrorist nation or a terrorist who led a nation, truly warrants total destruction. Indeed, the attack by Amalek on the Children…

In the post-World War II era, the international community established what were meant to be Universal Taboos. These were the “red lines” of civilization—boundaries so fundamental that their breach should invite immediate moral and…

Introduction: Recovering a Silenced Story

For centuries, Western narratives portrayed Africa as passive—a continent of helpless victims, easily enslaved and colonized. Textbooks, popular histories, and films repeated a familiar story:…

Sitting in a coffee shop in London with my wife and sister, we were trying to translate one of the ruder Hebrew sayings in a way that will rhyme in English. The one about the elephant and the chicken.

Following the sale of the care homes’…

I was taking a break from my TOI Blog, but wish to express the support for Israel that I and many Canadians share.   We send our care and concern and charitable support and prayers to our friends and colleagues in Israel.  We are watching…

“The shoes are full of stones scattered in them.”

The sentence landed with the dull thud of something that should not be possible and stopped me cold. She had just stood at the Shoes on the Danube Bank — Budapest’s most visited…

This week’s parsha is dedicated to the heroic soldiers, security forces and first responders of the IDF, defenders of the Jewish people and the land of Israel, and the United States Armed Forces, defenders of liberty and justice for all….