Cancel culture didn’t begin online. From ancient inquisitions to modern outrage, societies that silence dissent have always collapsed under the weight of their own fear. Rooted in ancient law and echoed in modern times, Jewish wisdom…
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Wonder Robotics to unveil innovative assault drone
The Israeli company has developed a first-person view drone capable of attacking both horizontally and vertically.
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Francesca Albanese Lays the Bricks in a Wall of Words
At the UN, language has become mortar—each speech, each report, another layer in the wall separating Jews from their own humanity. When a wall goes up, it begins with words, careful words, humane words, words that sound like virtue. They speak…
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Bearing Witness: Why the Record Matters- Parashat Toledot
In this week’s reading of Parashat Toldot we read: “וַיִּבֶן שָׁם מִזְבֵּחַ וַיִּקְרָא בְּשֵׁם י-ה-וָה וַיֵּט שָׁם אֹהָלֹהֹ וַיִּכְרוּ־שָׁם…
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A People Divided Cannot Protect Itself: The Case for Jewish Unity and Pluralism
There’s something profoundly disheartening about realizing that the harshest treatment I receive on social media doesn’t come from antisemites, neo-Nazis, or random trolls hiding behind anime avatars. No—the ugliest, sharpest, most venomous…
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The Real Deal
President Donald J. Trump is a good friend to Israel. Is he the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House? I would say yes, but the bar is not that high. In 1948, Harry Truman recognized the new State of Israel within…
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“Closing the Loop” Chaye Sarah 5786
What if the ultimate test of faith doesn’t come from a command from above? What if the true challenge is learning to act rightly when no one is telling you what to do? Abraham’s life shows us both sides of this journey. After the Akeidah,…
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Is Zionism the Crucible of History?
Let’s begin with a slight provocation: Is Zionism the zero point of history? Not in the self-centered sense of the historian who imagines his subject as the axis of the universe, but in a more urgent one – that every age, every way of thinking…
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On a Mission from God
from Wheels of Love taken with my Iphone I remember the first time I ever heard the expression. It was 1980 and Elwood and Jake, after having a religious experience, said, “We are on a mission from God.” Like the Blues Brothers, I’ve…
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The Train to Auschwitz
“The train is leaving to Auschwitz.” I can’t recall when I first heard it. It was long before I could fully comprehend it, growing up in Budapest behind the Iron Curtain. Years passed, and I heard it again. And again. As the system began to…
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