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Why travelling to Israel feels like the safest, honest thing I know…because between calculation and courage lies faith — and sometimes a boarding pass!

Whenever I mention I’m going to Israel soon, some people here in The Diaspora tend…

Rabbi Moshe ben Yisrael Shlita (Mikhail Salita)

My dear father Abraham,

I write to you with reverence and love. You are the father of our people, and thus you are also my spiritual father. When I read in the Torah the words spoken by the…

Traveling abroad, some fears and anxiety mitigated. We say we won’t speak Hebrew, but we do. Nobody’s dirty looks shot in our direction. In Madrid, only on the Gran Via, once, barely noticeable graffiti for freeing Palestina. The…

Since October 7, Israel has banned all Palestinian workers from entering Israel. Even with a ceasefire now in place, most of that ban remains. On paper, that may sound like security; in practice, it makes both economies poorer and the long…

In the hours after nightfall, as the monks slept in their chambers, a fox came to Bethsaida.

He would have waited for the men to finish their day, to shut out the black night behind doors in order to raid the garbage, as nocturnal wild animals in…

In the hours after nightfall, as the monks slept in their chambers, a fox came to Bethsaida.

He would have waited for the men to finish their day, to shut out the black night behind doors in order to raid the garbage, as nocturnal wild animals in…

Francesca Albanese’s October 2025 campaign in South Africa was not humanitarian diplomacy. Official records reviewed show that her visit—staged under United Nations insignia while she was under US Treasury sanctions—was conceived,…

Last week’s Haredi demonstration against the drafting of their youth into the IDF was, for many people a chilul hashem, a desecration of God’s name, while to others it was a proper act of defiance in a democracy that purportedly values…

Within aviation, an air traffic controller may say to a pilot, “Please state your intentions”. The controller will issue the request when they want to know what the pilot wants. The phrase is used when the controller does not understand…

While the world looks away, I’ve spent the past months writing about Sudan as a comparison. Still, silence. 

After Hamas’s brutal pogrom of October 7, 2023, Israel launched its war against the terror organization in Gaza….