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We all knew it was coming.

War with Iran was predicted to start this weekend. My son’s class even took guesses about when the first siren would ring. After everything we’ve been through in the past two and a half years, it makes sense…

I’ve read a number of articles expressing shock, anger, or bewilderment about Tucker Carlson’s recent positions. Admirers struggle to reconcile his rhetoric with earlier stances. Critics treat each new turn as proof of radicalization or…

When observing the latest chapter of the Middle East war, the natural tendency is to sink into the familiar local narrative: Israel versus Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah, or, somewhat more broadly, the historical struggle between the Sunni…

Israel is confronting the most dangerous terror-driven radicals in the Middle East yet, the West screams, “Hands off” …

Here’s the thing about war: it isn’t black and white.

As someone who grew up in sunny and safe California, in…

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My gut tells me that the joint US-Israeli strike against the evil Iranian regime is an event to be celebrated by all decent people.  That feeling is reinforced tenfold by the cast of characters lamenting the…

And here we go again. The already too familiar sound of the siren interrupted our morning coffee on Shabbat morning, and we immediately understood: another round is coming.

We have basically been at war for two and a half years straight. We…

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead, but regime change will require more than airstrikes by Israeli and American forces. His death puts pro-democracy Iranians at risk of being massacred by the heavily armed IRCG, whose…

“Jerusalem — built as a city held together as one;
to which the tribes go up, the tribes of God,
as a testimony to Israel, to give thanks to the name of God.”
(Psalms 122)

Today, Jews from Israel and from all over the world come to the…

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Mitzvos in the World to Come

Our Gemara discusses the concept of “dichui”, a disqualification in eligibility, and how it affects prohibitions. The concept of “dichui” is more commonly used throughout the Talmud in regards to…

Rabbi Cohen has been a Torah instructor at Machon Meir, Jerusalem, for over twenty years while also teaching a Talmud class in the Shtieblach of Old Katamon. Before coming to Israel, he was the founding rabbi of Young Israel of…