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The first week of Australia’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion began with a paradox that every Jewish Australian already understands in their bones: the need is urgent, the stakes are existential, and…

On Simchat Torah morning, October 7, 2023, a siren tore through a holy day meant for joy and song. In cities it cut across morning tefillah, and in the kibbutzim near Gaza it broke the quiet of family breakfasts. Our first instinct, shaped by…

In the Talmud, a person who is both deaf and mute is called a cherish. For centuries, such individuals were grouped with minors and people with limited mental capacity, based on the historical belief that they lacked the maturity for full…

A Partnership Taking Shape in a Polarized World

The most consequential geopolitical partnership of the coming decade will not be announced with fanfare at a G7 summit. It will not feature a mutual defense treaty or a shared nuclear umbrella….

Israeli politicians treat the United States as a civilisational mirror — a fellow frontier society, restlessly entrepreneurial, divinely ordained for greatness. When they tire of that comparison, they reach for Singapore: the plucky…

When we ask ourselves today “what is the Kindertransport” we often impose our limited present day understanding onto this historical term and event. The Kindertransport has long been regarded as the rescue of mainly Jewish children from…

Once hierarchy is sanctified, it must be preserved.

Ideas endure not only through sermons and philosophy but through institutions. Schools, universities, seminaries, publishing houses, and archives do more than transmit knowledge — they…

Life in Israel is, above all, a great contrast in which many realities coexist at the same time.

In much of the international press and on social media, only the conflict between Jews and Arabs is intentionally highlighted, and in most cases,…

In February 2023, weeks after an earthquake killed thousands in Syria, 100 trucks of humanitarian aid sat stranded. Not because roads were blocked. Because Assad’s regime demanded more than half the cargo. Turkish-backed groups blocked…

The Christian presence in Iraq represents one of the oldest religious and cultural components in the Middle East, with roots tracing back to the earliest centuries of Christianity in Mesopotamia. However, this historic presence has faced…