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A video that shook the system

What began as an internal investigation into the conduct of Israeli soldiers at the Sde Teiman base has spiraled into one of the most damaging controversies in Israel’s military justice history.

The case…

The Very Annoying Jew, by Michael Kretzmer

(Envelope Books, £15.95)

Award-winning TV producer David Britton has offended most of his staff, his wife wants a divorce, he’s getting hate mail, and he’s being harassed by religious freaks….

LAS VEGAS — There were a number of villains at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual summit here this weekend.

Tucker Carlson, who recently hosted avowed antisemite and white nationalist Nick Fuentes on his show,…

The massacre in Sudan: The greatest indictment of Israel’s enemies

Last week, a terribly tragic event occured in western Sudan. Armed militia members of the RSF, entered a hospital and gunned down patients, staff, and whoever was in their…

Why do Chaverot/Partnership Minyanim flourish in larger Jewish communities, while they are less common in much of Middle America?

Many synagogues in the American Midwest have continued to close or merge since the 1990s, as Jewish communities…

The Trump 20-Point Plan outlines both a “credible path to statehood” and a “political horizon.” The latter phrase, added at Netanyahu’s insistence, appears designed to dilute any genuine commitment to Palestinian statehood. The…

For most of us, Sefer Bereishit (Genesis) is a trove of “Bible stories” which we absorb unquestioningly as young children – and which we remember as such with barely a second thought.

We are by and large guilty of uncritical Torah…

I’m not usually one to make waves. I don’t look for confrontation, and I certainly don’t go out of my way to stir things up. Most of the time, I’d rather keep the peace — even if that means quietly disagreeing and moving on.

But…

The First Lesson After the Covenant: God Wanted Abraham to Build a Just Society, Not Just Be a Holy Man

Right after promising Abraham a future, God shows him a society about to be erased. The message is stark: if the society collapses, the…

Fifteen theoretical models allow us to better understand the “new antisemitism.”  Contemporary Jewish hatred involves hostility toward Jews that is manifested not through traditional racial or religious stereotypes but rather through…