This whole episode is a perfect case study in how Israeli media has abdicated its most basic responsibility: mediating reality for the public. Instead, every global event becomes a prop in a national psychodrama — a chance for moral…
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The Blogs: New York Jews: It’s Time To Stand And Fight | Elliott Hamilton
Yes, Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election. We knew that this was most likely the case. While 60% of our community righteously voted for Andrew Cuomo in hopes that a miracle could happen, the writing was always on the wall that the City…
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The Blogs: Lot’s Illicit Relationship and the Failed Final Redemption | Doron Lazarus
One of the most enigmatic and perplexing episodes in the entire Torah is the story of Lot and his daughters. In Genesis 19:33-35, the Pessukim describe the twisted turn of events where Sodom is destroyed and the only people to escape alive…
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The Blogs: What America’s Fractured Right Means for Israel and the Jewish World | Tim Orr
The recent Trigonometry interview with Dinesh D’Souza pulls back the curtain on a right-wing movement that’s starting to come apart at the seams. His critique of Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens isn’t just about ego or personality —…
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The Blogs: Two Promised Lands: Freedom and Homecoming | Sabine Sterk
Two Promised Lands: The Soviet Jewish Exodus to America and Israel
When the Iron Curtain began to crack in the 1970s, millions of Soviet Jews saw, for the first time, a light of freedom. For decades, they had lived under a regime that…
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The Blogs: The Mitzva of Circumcision | Kenneth Cohen
The Mitzva of circumcision was given to Avraham Avinu. The word, “Brit,” means covenant. It is a physical sign on the body of every male Jew. The ערלה, or foreskin, is considered an impediment towards achieving spiritual holiness.
The…
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The Blogs: New York: A geopolitical mirror | Gilles Touboul
A symbolic turning point or a political illusion?
Zohran Mamdani won the mayoralty of New York; it is much more than a municipal upheaval, it is a global political signal. The election of a mayor from the most left wing of the Democratic…
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The Blogs: Ukraine’s Restitution as Tikkun Olam: The Moral Path to National Unity | Mikhail Salita
Restitution is not only a legal mechanism — it is a sacred act of moral healing. Inspired by Israel’s example, Ukraine now has the opportunity to transform justice into light, and law into faith.
The Talmud teaches that the world stands…
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The Blogs: Moral Courage Is Civilization’s Only Hope | Jeffrey Levine
The Divine Reset — From Division to Responsibility
The story of the Divine Reset continues in this week’s parsha, and what a powerful reading it is.
Last week, we saw Abraham commanded to leave his land — to begin again — and to enter…
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In a first, a ballot initiative to divest from Israel has won at the ballot box, in Somerville, Mass.
A municipal ballot proposal to divest from Israel went before a popular vote for the first time on Tuesday — and pulled off a decisive victory.
Question 3 won more than 55% of the vote in unofficial election results in…
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