“I hope I am not making a mistake” I said to myself out loud an hour before a scheduled video call. Three months ago I received an email from a dear friend in Poland. One of the things she wrote about was this: “A glimmer…
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Echoes Across Generations: Questioning Meeting a Nazi Executioner’s Heir
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Is Another War with Hezbollah a Matter of Timing — or a Trigger?
In an era of renewed strength in southern Lebanon, two nervous systems — Israeli and Lebanese — are colliding. The real question is not whether escalation will occur, but how it will unfold. In Israel, we tend to view the southern front as…
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The Problematic Palestinian School Textbooks
The Palestinian Authority hopes to supplant Hamas as the governing power in the Gaza Strip and play a central role in the second phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan. This may be a bridge too far as matters stand today. The…
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A Betrayal as Old as Time
Antisemitism is nothing new. That may be its most terrifying quality. It is the oldest of political hatreds, a worldview so durable that it survives every era by reinventing itself. From Roman suspicions to medieval blood libels, from…
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Let Them: A Rabbinic Take on Letting Mel Robbins and the Art of Letting Go
There is a moment familiar to anyone who has ever tried to lead, love, teach, or parent, when you suddenly realize how much of your emotional life has been handed over to someone else. A colleague’s cold tone, a family member’s thoughtless…
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How Israeli Tax Credit Points Really Work
A few weeks ago, a friend called me sounding completely confused. She had just received a message from the tax authority saying she might be eligible for a refund, but she had no idea why, or what she was supposed to do next. As we…
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From Haran to Healing: The Emotional Journey of Yaakov
The Torah’s description of Lavan offers glimpses into his personality: how his family first interacted with him, and how, over time, those relationships shifted. When Yaakov first meets Lavan, the Torah says that Lavan welcomed him because…
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The Heel, the Crown, the Twins — and the Ontological Origin of Kingship
It begins, as the deepest patterns so often do, with a struggle in the womb. Twice the Torah pulls back the curtain on an unborn war: first in the hidden chambers of Rebecca, where Jacob and Esau collide before they ever see the sun; and…
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Disqualifying Ra’am would disqualify our democracy
The party helmed by Mansour Abbas represents a moderate religious and political movement committed to Muslim integration into Israeli society
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Israel’s top 3 defense firms rise in global rankings
Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael are all ranked in the world’s top 34 defense companies for 2024 by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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