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“They didn’t carry rifles. They carried microphones.”

And yet, in the first hours after Hamas’s October 7 massacre, those microphones did something rockets never could: they globalized the war. In newsroom after newsroom, unverified…

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‘’Far-left, anti-Israel candidate Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayoral race.’’ Israeli politicians, we are told, are alarmed.

Let’s relax a minute, shall we? First of all, does that suit and tie say…

Washington is diligently accelerating an audacious plan to stabilize Gaza after a brutal two-year war. Behind closed doors at the United Nations, a draft resolution is circulating that would authorize an International Stabilization Force…

The recent election of Zohran Mamdani in New York, a politician whose campaign promoted the erasure of Israel as a Jewish state, marks a dangerous normalization of anti-Israel extremism at the heart of American democracy. When calls for a…

Canonical Days, Mathematical Constants, and the Rhythm of Time

In my previous articles — “Canonical Pi Day” and “Canonical e-Day” — I explored the idea of canonical days: dates anchored not to any fixed Gregorian calendar, but to…

Against the backdrop of the ceasefire, the lifting of travel advisories, and the gradual return of foreign airlines to Israel, a renewed sense of optimism is sweeping through Israel’s tourism industry. This week, the Israel Ministry of…

The story of Avraham Avinu and the three angels that came to visit him, was meant to show the extent of his being a man of Chessed.

The Alshich makes an interesting observation about doing Mitzvot and other acts of kindness. One who does such…

The words of the Nazis show us how ordinary people can become psychopathic killers. Can we use this evidence to teach about the perpetrators of the Holocaust without legitimizing their beliefs?

Holocaust exhibits often tell the story of the…

I bumped into a friend the other day, and over the course of the conversation, we got to talking about intermarriage. She explained how her views had changed over time, as she had encountered more and more families dealing with this challenge…