A tip of the kippah to the architects of Zionism — those stubborn visionaries who believed a battered people could build a modern state out of desert, memory, and sheer human will. They dreamed of a country that would gather Jews from around…
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‘Startup Nation’ or ‘Exit Nation’?
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Yakov’s Doubts
Yakov Avinu’s dream of the ladder with angels going up and down, was meant to give him assurances that Hashem would always be with him. He awoke from this dream with great joy and optimism. Nevertheless, his humility made him doubt that he…
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The Algorithmic Childhood: Why We Cannot Leave Our Kids to Social Media Alone
Childhood is disappearing in plain sight. Not because of war or poverty, but because we are allowing algorithm-driven platforms to shape our children’s emotional, social, and psychological development with almost no guardrails. Parents would…
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Pain Forged Me. Choice Made Me Sovereign.
Embed from Getty Images I didn’t rise from the ashes. I walked out of the fire intact. Pain taught me what strength never could: what remains when everything unnecessary burns. It didn’t whisper; it carved — dismantling me with an…
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The Argument No One Wants to Touch About Gaza and Hamas
Some narratives survive only because no one dares challenge them. They drift, untested, through headlines and humanitarian slogans, comforting the world with a fiction it desperately wants to believe. But illusions can only stretch so far before…
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Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel – Part XVII
Education, Narrative Transformation, and Building a Shared Civic Identity Teaching Truth, Forming Character, and Preparing a Future Together Series Preface Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel examines how law, belonging,…
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Islamism ’79: A Costly, Lose-Lose Bargain for West
In 1979, when the Islamists prevailed in Iran, the West found itself trapped in a dead end where it sacrificed its long-term strategic interests for short-term calculations. Western governments believed they had no third option; they accepted and…
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The Unthinkable Is Unfolding in Israel’s Supreme Court — A Line Has Been Crossed
Respect for the judiciary is neither a courtesy nor ceremonial — it is constitutional! In recent weeks, Israel has witnessed scenes inside its Supreme Court that would once have been unimaginable. Ministers and legislators have acted with…
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Treating a war as if it were a PR problem
Israel can disrupt Iran's distant nuclear program and intercept thousands of incoming rockets, but it is struggling to defeat campus protesters
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US-Saudi defense security agreement: Risks to Israel
Reporters and analysts have been fixated on the recent U.S. military deal with Saudi Arabia, specifically regarding the American sale of F-35 fighter jets to the Kingdom. As far as the F-35s are concerned, an Israeli military official recently…
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