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The 10 kinds of people you’ll meet in the market on the first Friday of Ramadan — Right before Shabbat — in the Old City of Jerusalem — During the “Everything Is Fine” calm before a possible war with Iran

1. The Apocalyptic…

Bret Stephens’ recent State of World Jewry address generated a great deal of discussion.

His core provocation: the fight against antisemitism, however well-meaning, is largely a wasted effort — antisemitism is a neurosis, not an…

It is no secret that the Iranian regime is an authoritarian state that enforces religious conformity through violence and fear. The ordinary Iranian people  are risking, and losing, their lives  in an attempt to reclaim their country and…

Israel’s Quiet Green Light: How Gaza’s New Technocrats Could Become Jerusalem’s Best Bet 

The next phase in Gaza may be shaped less by militants and generals than by a small group of Gaza‑born technocrats now sitting in Washington,…

In September 1983, a Soviet satellite system detected what appeared to be five American intercontinental ballistic missiles streaking toward Russia. The officer on duty, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, had minutes to decide whether to…

We are living through an age in which disagreement is constant and highly visible. A few minutes online is enough to reveal the scale of it: strong opinions delivered with urgency, counter-positions framed as moral necessities, and little…

It is with tremendous excitement that לנבוכי הדור, a long lost and even unknown treasure of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, has been translated by Rabbi Aryeh Sklar.  The buzz around this is due to a work from Rav Kook,…

A few weeks ago, I joined a solidarity meeting at a nearby Israeli Palestinian middle school, whose eigh^th graders, on a school hike in a national park, had been attacked with pepper spray by teenage hikers from a yeshiva in the West Bank….

There is a genre of writing that pretends to describe “what is happening.” In fact it performs prior work: it sets the conditions under which something will count as real, necessary, reasonable. It reads like reporting but functions like…

Here’s a question that you’ve probably never asked. In the modern age, which of these two phenomena have caused more Jews to cease having any real relationship with their Jewish tradition: assimilation or antisemitism? The answer is quite…