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This essay asks why, when societies splinter, Jews and Kurds so often become the chosen emblems of blame. It examines the psychology that makes scapegoats useful and the politics that keeps them close: Jews and the land of Israel as a…

America’s arguments over Israel are a litmus test of the nation’s civic health. Unlike other distant foreign-policy disputes, the question of Israel, to borrow Martin Luther King, Jr.’s resonant phrase, is a projection of America as it…

Rabbi Dr. Irving Yitzchak Greenberg, also known as “Yitz Greenberg,” was born on May 16, 1933. He is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, historian, theologian, and author. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1953 by Yeshiva Beis Yosef in…

November 4, 2025 marks 30 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin—shot by an Israeli extremist at the culmination of a peace rally in Tel Aviv. I was 22 years old then, a combat soldier in the IDF. A few years earlier…

Gilad Kariv, the chairman of the Knesset’s Immigration and Absorption Committee, minced no words. “This is not a wave of emigration,” he said last week. “It’s a tsunami of Israelis choosing to leave the country.”

He was referring…

A hopeful roadmap across AI, bio-convergence, and quantum – if Israel chooses to scale

I have argued for months that Israel needs a resilient technological backbone that can adapt, evolve, and outlast shocks. That is the promise of deep…

President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Orthodox Jewish voters in Lakewood, New Jersey, to vote for the Republican candidate in the state’s gubernatorial race.

“I need ALL of my supporters in the Orthodox community in…

This piece first ran as part of The Countdown, our daily newsletter rounding up all the developments in the New York City mayor’s race. Tomorrow is the election.

As you get ready to vote, read how Andrew Cuomo, Zohran…

Election Year: D minus 365 to bring Economic Justice on the table

Social justice has been at the core of my business and political involvement from the first day I arrived in Israel.

Israel’s medium salary is quite high. The tech scene…

A Report by Shimon Samuels and Alex Uberti

For more than two decades, we have been monitoring several Arab book fairs across the MENA region, as well as the international Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany (FBM – Frankfurter BuchMesse).

At the…