Under the shadow of geopolitical tension and global uncertainty around the future of Israel, doubling down on international academic collaboration can serve as an antidote that allows us to envision a brighter version of this future. Calls for…
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From New York: Without international partners, science will fall short
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How the West’s $57 Billion Bailout Is Funding Egypt’s Next Disaster
In the closing weeks of the year, Egypt staged a parliamentary election that was less a democratic exercise and more a choreographed formality. With parties friendly to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s regime dominating the ballot, and…
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Israel’s Death Penalty Bill and Lapel Pin Glorify Killing and Sanctify Revenge
It was an abject abomination for lawmakers in the far-right Otzma Yehudit party to wear golden lapel pins in the shape of a noose during a recent committee meeting on the controversial bill to legislate the death penalty for terrorists….
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Leadership and Responsibility
What Israel taught me this week about what it truly means to lead. Leadership is one of those words we use so easily that we forget what it costs.Titles are cheap. Platforms are plentiful. Opinions are everywhere. But responsibility — real…
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The Court Is Wrong: Antizionism Is Discriminatory
The First Circuit Is Wrong: Antizionism Is Discrimination Against Jews On October 21, the First Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the Title VI claims brought by Jewish students against MIT. Last week, a federal district court in Massachusetts…
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Where Thresholds Meet
On Illness, Intention, and the Meaning of a Jewish Doorway Not many people know this, but I had bladder cancer when I was 29 years old. Although frightening at the time, it never returned and the years passed with routine surveillance that felt…
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‘Nuremberg,’ the ‘Idiots Guide to Genocide,’ that everyone should see
I would like to suggest that instead of the usual Festive-season fare – Santa frolics or vapid rom-coms – everyone should settle down with their box of Celebrations (or Heroes or Quality Street) in front of something more educational such as…
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Where Monet paints Paris, Proust dreams it
Standing once again before Claude Monet’s ‘Pond with Water Lilies’ at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem – a painting I visited countless times during my years heading its press office – I’m reminded how deeply the French Impressionists…
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Peter Beinart and his Imaginary Homies
Imaginary Homies as a Phenomenon Legendary Swedish music journalist and author Fredrik Strage is a huge hip-hop fan. He went to all the rap and hip-hop concerts he could find in Sweden and quite a few in the States as well. He wrote a book…
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A Medicane Arrives
Medicanes are technically classified as Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones (TLCs), and one is now on its way toward our region. To follow the storm’s arrival in real time, you can visit our updated lightning display at…
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