Skipping Photo Paris this year, which returned to the Grand Palais after its restoration, gave me the chance to discover MIRA, the contemporary Latin American art fair, now in its second edition at the Maison de l’Amérique Latine, running from…
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MIRA – A Delightful Alternative to Photo Paris
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Hope and Holiness in Burying Our Fallen
This week, a long, painful chapter came to a close. IDF reservists, members of Lt. Hadar Goldin’s company when he was killed and abducted by Hamas in 2014, traveled to the Gaza Strip to escort his remains back to Israel. I was in Israel in…
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A Smarter Law for the Worst Terrorists: No More Hostage Currency
A Smarter Law for the Worst Terrorists: No More Hostage Currency In the wake of October 7, it is emotionally easy – and politically tempting – to say, “just execute them.” The Knesset’s new death penalty bill for terrorists rides that…
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When bad people do good things
Evil in one context, good in another I’m not talking about most people and organizations being neither completely good nor bad, like the cliché that Hitler loved dogs. I’m not even thinking of people changing, like MTG going from pro-Trump to…
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He was Zohran Mamdani’s Jewish wingman. What’s next for Brad Lander?
When Brad Lander and Zohran Mamdani were jointly honored at a left-wing Jewish event in September, the two politicians’ alliance was at the center of the evening.
Lander, who had cross-endorsed Mamdani in the Democratic…
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Is dining-hall matzah ‘DEI’? The answer isn’t clear to UVA’s pushed-out ex-president.
Months after being forced out as president of the University of Virginia, Jim Ryan is still pondering Passover food.
More specifically, Ryan, who was pushed out of the role over the summer amid mounting GOP pressure on the…
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Wars Are Not Fought for Land. They Are Fought for Meaning.
Understanding War as a Struggle Over Symbols, Not Territory On the surface, wars look deceptively simple: contests over land, resources, or security. That is the language of diplomatic communiqués, the vocabulary of school textbooks, the neat…
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Your Inner-GPS
Once upon a time, long ago, there was a woman who knew herself well. Even though her brother was deceptive and her mother was hesitant, when her moment of truth arrived, she knew how to be decisive. To take action. To go-forth to shape the…
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Chabad Shluchim Conference Launches in the Same Moment Washington Reopens
Two Openings, One Message: When the Chabad Shluchim Conference and the US Government Began Together By Rabbi Anchelle Perl – Special Report On Wednesday evening Nov 12, 2025, two very different kinds of “openings” unfolded on the world…
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Towards a New ‘Zionism’
The truth about Zionism “Zionism is nothing more – and nothing less – than the Jewish people’s sense of origin and destination in the land linked eternally with its name” This was a powerful and positive representation beautifully…
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