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Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once expressed her yearning for peace like this: “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.” No one forced Hamas to invade…

No region of North Africa has been more persistally assailed by the corrosive geopolitics of external ideological manipulation than Morocco. If the State of Israel confronted the Iranian axis by way of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon…

It is perhaps an aphorism that “the more things change the more they remain the same.” However, regarding world opinion towards Jews, it is one that seems applicable at least on the surface.  Following the November 9–10 pogrom of 1938,…

“And G-d said to Abraham: first, I need to verify that you are not a robot! So Abraham did.”

The above verse is not authentic. It’s a fake verse that doesn’t appear in the Torah (shocking, I know!). During the time of Abraham, there…

Democratic mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo Zohran Mamdani Brad Lander and Scott Stringer seen speaking during a Democratic mayoral primary debate June 4 2025 in New York. AP Photo Yuki Iwamura

By Dr. Shmuel Legesse

In recent years, a quiet…

Part IV. Civil Rights to Black Liberation and Womanist Theology: God of the Oppressed, God of the Surviving

By the mid-twentieth century, Black theology in the Americas had walked through slavery, survived Jim Crow, and built churches,…

Now that the New York mayoral race is over, we have an opportunity to reflect on the discourse that occurred around this in the Jewish community. Various Rabbinic leaders in Jewish communities across North America chose to make public…

Kazakhstan is expected to announce Thursday that it will join the Abraham Accords during President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s White House meeting with President Donald Trump, Axios and other media outlets reported, citing…

I’ll be honest: I didn’t expect to feel gut-punched on Tuesday night. I knew Mamdani was going to win.

I’d been telling myself that for months, really ever since the primary made it clear the numbers weren’t in our favor.

I tried to…

Parents often ask me why I believe the Middle School years in a Jewish Day School are so important. Years ago, when I taught Jewish history and Jewish text to Middle Schoolers, I saw firsthand how powerful those years can be. I watched…