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Israel today is confronting a contradiction that cuts to the core of its identity not only as a sovereign state, but as a moral project shaped by history. On one hand, the government signals an intention to remove Ethiopian non-Jewish…

As we gather around the Seder table each Passover, we retell a story so extraordinary, it almost defies belief.

A young child once came home from Hebrew school, and when asked by a parent what was learned that day, replied: “The story of…

Midrash Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer 26

רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן קָרְחָה אוֹמֵר: (שָׂרָה הָיְתָה אֵשֶׁת פַּרְעֹה,) מֵאַהֲבָתוֹ אוֹתָהּ כָּתַב לָהּ…

Passover arrives each year with a familiar structure. Jewish people gather, retell the same story, and move through a ritual that has barely changed in centuries. Slavery, redemption, freedom. The sequence is fixed.

The meaning is not.

This…

This week, like so many across Israel, I found myself running to a shelter.

It is a strange experience — one that compresses time. In seconds, the noise of daily life disappears, replaced by urgency, instinct, and a quiet, shared tension…

When Pesach Became My Reality

Every year before Pesach, we clean out chametz.

On the surface, it’s about getting rid of crumbs—bread, anything leavened, anything that doesn’t belong for that week. But it never really feels like it’s…

The Qur’an warns everyone: “Guard yourselves against the (Qiyahmah-Judgment) Day on which no soul will be of help to another. No intercession will be accepted, no ransom taken, and no help will be given.” (Quran 2:48) yet Arctic Sea ice…

On March 28, this story took on an especially uncomfortable dimension for Jerusalem.

While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was traveling through the Gulf, negotiating security cooperation, fuel supplies and joint projects tied to the…

Why demonization, delegitimization, and double standards applied to American Jews are driving the USA apart

America likes to imagine itself as a country fractured along predictable partisan lines, left versus right, red versus blue, yet still…

When I heard that Israel had named its operation against Iran Sha’agat Ha’ari, “The Lion’s Roar,” I immediately thought of Winston Churchill’s iconic use of that phrase at a November 1954 ceremony in Parliament marking his 80^th…