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We’ve been here before. The effigy of Saddam Hussein has turned into the effigy of Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei. Their statues have been toppled, leaving uneasy regimes and tenuous questions about the future. But the uncanny proximity of…

Is History Repeating Itself?

It has become apparent that Purim is not a good time to start a war with Israel.

Purim teaches us to stand tall and not be afraid. It is the story of how the Jewish people stood up to tyranny. It is a story that…

Rabbi Adi Romem is a liberal Israeli rabbi, educator, and motivational speaker. She bridges ancient Jewish wisdom with contemporary life through thought-provoking sermons and teaching. A former senior executive in Israel’s…

When you think of an agunah (a woman chained to a dead marriage) in your head, she’s probably some faceless babushka doll. Nothing like me, that’s for sure. Nobody I would ever know. 

That’s what I thought, until it happened to a…

Purim 2020. My family had just made aliyah a few months earlier. We were finally in Israel, ready to celebrate our first Purim in the homeland. The costumes were bought. The mishloach manot were packed. The kids were buzzing.

Then COVID shut…

EXCLUSIVE NEWS | Ilham Ahmed Answered My Question in Brussels: “Israel Took Diplomatic Initiative for Rojava”

BRUSSELS – Claims that Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar applied “serious diplomatic pressure” in Washington to stop…

By acting decisively and independently, Israel has transformed from an isolated, client state into world-leading power

It was Israel who was uniquely threatened by Iran; it was Israel who launched the first strike; it was Israel who killed Ali…

There are many questions about whether this war was necessary. Anyone listening to and believing Netanyahu, believes this  war to be absolutely mandatory. He has been pushing for it for years. We all know how his single focus on Iran was a…