Last week, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee “suggested” that Israel would have a legitimate claim to a good part of the Middle East because of the Bible’s promise to the Israelites to rule “from the Euphrates [Iraq] to the Big…
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The Blogs: Parshat Zachor | Kenneth Cohen
This Shabbat is Parshat Zachor. We have an obligation to hear the Torah reading that commands us to blot out the memory of Amalek.
The question that is asked is that there seems to be a paradox in this reading. On the one hand, we are told to…
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The Blogs: We Are Asking Holocaust Education to Do the Impossible | Hagit Zadok Fefferman
Lately, I’ve been hearing a painful and confusing message in Jewish spaces: that Holocaust education isn’t working. The idea became more prominent after Dara Horn’s widely read essay in The Atlantic questioning whether Holocaust…
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The Blogs: Iran’s Minorities: The Regime’s Breaking Point | Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez
Iran is not a country in the conventional sense—it is a contained fracture. ‘Persia’ is held together not by cohesion, but by force, timing, and the constant prevention of alignment.
Today, roughly 60% of Iran’s population is Persian;…
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The Blogs: Subsidizing Division? | Ivan Bassov
If Israel Funded a Parallel “Arab Palestinian” Identity, It Funded Its Own Fracture
A recent article titled “Exposé: Israel Invested Millions in Boosting Palestinian Identity of Its Arab Citizens” alleges that state funds were used…
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The Blogs: Audit Aid. Or Stop Lying | Yochanan Schimmelpfennig
If you want a ceasefire to mean anything after the cameras leave, you have to stop treating “aid” as a sacred word and start treating it as a high-risk supply chain. In Gaza, the question is no longer whether to help civilians; it is…
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The Blogs: Never Again Is A Responsibility | Sabine Sterk
Imagine posting more than 1500 times a year about Israel. Sharing facts that are accessible, documented and verifiable. Facts about history. Facts about law. Facts about war and peace. Facts that most educated people can easily confirm for…
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The Blogs: Purim Is the Holiday of October 8th Jews | Mijal Bitton
I have been thinking about him ever since.
October 7th cracked something open in Jews across the world: those who had thought of themselves as assimilated and long-disengaged. We gave it a name: October 8th Jews. Jews who woke up.
The numbers…
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The Blogs: Austria vs Political Islam: Europe’s Security Test | Rami Al Dabbas
Assessing the Threat of Political Islam Organizations in Austria and Their Implications for European National Security
## I. Executive Summary
Security and political indicators in Austria point to growing official concern over networks…
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The Blogs: Amalek Once a Year, Redemption Every Day | Jonathan Muskat
Over breakfast one morning, a woman said to her husband, “I’ll bet you don’t know what day this is.”
“Of course I do,” he replied, slightly offended, and left for work.At 10:00 a.m., the doorbell rang. A dozen long-stemmed red…
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