Hezbollah is rearming — not gradually, not quietly, but ferociously — in a way that humiliates every optimistic briefing given after Israel’s bruising 2023-2024 direct military campaign. The data could not be clearer: the so-called…
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Hezbollah Reloaded: Israel’s Darkest War Looms
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CADENA in Action: A Month of Global Relief
When two powerful earthquakes struck the Philippines on October 10, CADENA International mobilized immediately. As the humanitarian arm of the world’s Jewish communities, CADENA responds to disasters, crises, and emergencies worldwide, always…
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The Running Man 2025: Spectacle, Sovereignty and the Geopolitics of Distraction
When The Running Man was first released in 1987, its neon dystopia reflected Reagan-era paranoia: television as tyranny, spectacle as social control. The 2025 reinterpretation—arriving in an age of algorithmic surveillance, fragmented empires,…
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Hopes and Fears (Chayei Sarah, Covenant & Conversation)
The sedra of Chayei Sarah focuses on two episodes, both narrated at length and in intricate detail. Abraham buys a field with a cave as a burial place for Sarah, and he instructs his servant to find a wife for his son Isaac. Why these…
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Chayei Sarah: The Secret of Jewish Survival
Parashat Chayei Sarah, which we read this week, centers on two major narratives: Abraham’s search for a proper burial place for his wife, Sarah, and his mission to find a suitable wife for his son, Isaac. The first story describes Abraham’s…
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Inside the Tunnel of Dialogue
Two encounters in Germany reveal how fragile the foundation of understanding remains — and how entrenched the blindness to Jewish reality still is. The disappointment is not new. But it sharpens. Two recent conversations — one with a…
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Chayei Sarah: Sarah’s Eternal Glow
Sarah, our great Matriarch, dies. Her legacy is one for every one of us to carry along. First of all, we must address her beauty. She was taken by Pharaoh and Avimelech, meaning she was praised to be worthy for kings. So too must we…
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Protests aside, Greece is in a different place on ties with Israel
After a history as one of the Jewish state's fiercest European critics, Greece has become one of its closest allies worldwide
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Can the Syrian leader be trusted?
‘Paranoids have enemies too’ There are many conflicting aspects. Trust People can change, repent. In principle, terrorists can become democrats. Making Syria a true democracy, striving for what the population needs and peace, would propel the…
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Post Code…Red
There is a tremendous amount of banter and barter in the portion of Chayei Sarah. From the haggling between Abraham and Ephron and the Hittites, to procure a burial plot for Sarah, his wife, or the extensive interchange between Eliezer and Betuel…
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