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How could Abraham have made the plea that he did on behalf of Sodom, in this week’s Torah reading? Didn’t he understand mathematics? Didn’t he follow the polls?

Upon hearing that God intends to destroy that city due to its wickedness,…

Zohran Mamdani has built his political identity on one central idea: that Israel — and by extension, the Jewish people who support it — are the villains of our time. His hostility toward the Jewish state and his glorification of its…

Two Hasidic paths. One heart. One light.

By Rabbi Mikhail Salita

Sometimes one ordinary evening becomes the moment that quietly changes everything. After a long day of work, I went with my rabbi, Rabbi Zalman Liberov, to a small Hasidic…

On November 4, 2025, the event “Blessing Israel” was held at the Channel 27 Auditorium in Guatemala, gathering hundreds of Christian evangelical pastors. The event was organized by Rabbi Carlos Tapiero, Deputy CEO of Maccabi World Union,…

For decades, tribute bands and bedroom musicians have made their living covering The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Queen. Now, as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms with an endless tsunami of algorithmically optimized earworms, we…

Mamdani’s Win: An Open Letter to the Jewish Community

Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York’s mayoral race is historic. He’s the city’s first Muslim mayor, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, and he won with record turnout and…

It is not hyperbole to assert Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win has made New York City the latest victim of Hamas’ October 7 attack against Israel and the aftermath that followed.  World events beginning October 7 and continuing for the…

The election of Zohran Mamdani left many New Yorkers, myself included, reflecting on what happens when rhetoric replaces reality. For me, the reflection did not end at the ballot box. It continued in a conversation with classmates from…

This week we are remembering what was, until the October 7 massacre, one of the worst days in Israel’s history: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin thirty years ago.

Unfortunately, these two very different tragic days…

Several parts of the Middle East have witnessed years of fighting, with almost all of the violence perpetrated by Muslims against Muslims in spite of the many verses in the Qur’an that support revering pluralism within Islam and between the…