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On a wall in Jerusalem, three young people sit shoulder to shoulder on a bench. Their bodies nearly touch. Their faces glow in the light of their phones. No one looks up. No one speaks. Each inhabits a separate digital world.

Beside them,…

I walked into that hospital expecting to see wounded soldiers.

I did not expect to see the soul of Israel.

The air was heavy with the sound of machines doing the work that young bodies could no longer do on their own. Monitors blinked softly,…

A Wandering Jew’s Case for a Wider Israel

I have been a wandering Jew within Judaism.

Not in the romantic sense—backpack, prayerbook, and vague longing—but in the practical, lived sense of a person who has tried, with seriousness, to…

Over the last few days, hundreds of American citizens gathered to participate in the American political process – lobbying for policy and engaging with lawmakers who align with their values, just as advocates do for a myriad of interests…

When an interviewer told him he wouldn’t vote for a candidate who accepts support from AIPAC, California Gov. Gavin Newsom stumbled over his answer.

“It’s interesting,” Newsom said, repeating the phrase multiple…

Jewish figures on the far right are increasingly expressing concerns about President Donald Trump’s handling of an antisemitism rift among the Republican party, after its instigator Tucker Carlson reportedly visited the…

It’s obvious. Together with the gathering of all the armaments, and going by past experience — the previous bombing of Iran, and the abduction of Venezuela’s dictator — it seems quite clear that Trump will attack. And that he will do…

When discussing Christian nationalism, many conservative Christians react with evangelical fragility—an instinctive, emotionally fragile response when faced with the truth that, if taken to their logical conclusion, their dominionist…

This is Part One of a two-part series on book banning.

What would Henrietta Szold, the mother of Hadassah, have to say about books being banned? What would she say to the librarians whose lives have been threatened, have been the target of…