News is what happened yesterday – right? Not always. If astronomers found a gigantic meteorite that was on target to smash into Earth in another year, wouldn’t that be news? For sure. Similarly, if Israel was clearly headed in the…
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The Missing Link between Soft News and Hard News
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The American Night Is Growing Increasingly Dangerous
By a Grandson of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz I grew up in the shadow of a man I never had the privilege to meet, but whose name and fire were spoken about in my home with a reverence normally reserved for prophets. I carry his…
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Jewish New Yorkers rally outside Park East Synagogue, 2 weeks after anti-Israel protest there
Hundreds of New York City Jews and their allies braved the cold Thursday evening for a rally outside Park East Synagogue, where pro-Palestinian protesters had demonstrated two weeks prior shouting chants like “Globalize…
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Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right, Stuck in the Middle are Jews
My first experience with political intersectionality was decades ago. I was in New York City with my then girlfriend, Cindy, who was a graduate student at NYU. She had a second-floor apartment on the corner of Bleeker & Christopher Street –…
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Our Greatest Threat Isn’t Antisemitism -Vayishlach
I have a group chat with Jewish friends that used to be a predictable nightmare. We fought about everything: Israeli politics, American politics, theological politics, even imaginary politics. But lately? Bliss. Every headline about…
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The Covenant that Refuses to Die: What the Bible Teaches about Israel
Every interpreter approaches Scripture with an internal map and my map is Restorationism. This framework teaches that God is restoring the people of Israel and the land of Israel exactly as the prophets declared with no need for symbolic or…
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The Eurovision Boycott: Europe’s Cheapest Morality Against Israel
The scene would be almost comic if it were not so revealing: delegates of European broadcasters sitting in Geneva, discussing new rules for a song contest, while outside a salvo of press releases announces boycotts, moral outrage and grand…
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Gid Ha-Nasheh – A Psycho-Analytical Perspective
The Book of Bereishit (Genesis) tells of the early history of the world and the founding fathers and mothers of Israel prior to it becoming a covenantal nation. It is not a book in which we expect to encounter much legislation. Yet three…
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Sen. Van Hollen draws criticism after calling local Jewish leader an ‘apologist for the Netanyahu government’
An unusual direct attack by Sen. Chris Van Hollen on a local Jewish leader over Israel has elicited strong criticism from Jewish voices — as well as a passionate defense from a Jewish progressive.
“I am stunned,…
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JD Vance rejects claim that antisemitism is growing inside the GOP, breaking his silence on the topic
Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that he does not believe antisemitism is surging inside the Republican Party, pushing back on prominent conservatives who have raised alarms about hostility toward Jews among young…
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