With countries from Egypt to Iraq and Saudi Arabia buying its weapons, Seoul needs clear safeguards to ensure it does not put its allies at risk
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South Korea is arming the Mideast. Will it mitigate risks for Israel?
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Ignoring Lior Raz
Watching the Fauda star not look at me only confirms he has seen me – this is high alert
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How goodly were these tents
As the physical signs of the war disappear, so too have the gatherings that showed us how to maintain hope and how to be our best selves
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Hitler Marriages and Happy Places
If you live in Israel right now, you are probably watching Happy Place (Makom Sameach). It follows Vered (played by Noa Koler), a speech therapist in the throes of a midlife crisis, who is trying to “save” her depressed, aging mother, Nomi…
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Freedom, Mastery, and Joseph: Whom Do You Serve?
Thomas Mann’s magnificent retelling of the Joseph saga captures something the Torah hints at but never states explicitly. In one unforgettable scene, Mann imagines Joseph asking the Ishmaelite slave trader a question that seems, at first,…
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Compromise as Inevitably Patronizing?
Inspired by another visit to Dubai. Another Saturday morning at synagogue in Abu Dhabi and early evening at the Sheikh Zayed Mosque – this time with an Israeli, Jewish child. Impressions. Observations. And a young American adult with multiple…
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The Future of Jewish Peoplehood: Without Its Future
An event about the future of Jewish peoplehood should be full of its future. This one wasn’t. A concern that has been sitting quietly in the back of my mind about Jewish communal continuity came into sharper focus at the Z3 conference in San…
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The Silence on Arab Colonialism
The Other Colonial History We Ignore: Arab Conquest, Silent Slavery, and the Missing Narrative on Indigeneity In schools, documentaries, activism, and social movements, most discussions of colonialism focus on European empires—their expansion,…
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The MOOPs take the Shomron
Embed from Getty Images On December 7, a date which Frank Roosevelt said would live in infamy, 50 MOOP members set out for an excursion to the Shomron. Remarkably, all of them, as well as the Shomron, survived intact, and without international…
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