New York’s Jewish community is facing one of its most perilous moments in decades. As radical socialist and accused anti-Semite Zohran Mamdani surges toward the mayor’s office, the very people who helped shape this city now live under the…
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The Blogs: The Hysteria of Accountability:Why the Prince Andrew Saga Misses the Real Target | Vincent James Hooper
Facebook — once designed to connect the world — has become a mirror reflecting our collective obsessions. Scroll through it on any given day and you’ll find the same pattern repeated endlessly: one name, one scandal, and thousands of…
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The Blogs: The Two Trees “In The Middle” And The Unripe Fruit: A Chiddush In Two Parts | Yael Chaya Miriam Gray
PART I. Two Trees, One Shadow: Roots Apart, Branches Entwined
In the garden’s center stand two figures like one: twin trunks rising within a single circle of light, their crowns whispering together though their roots feed on different…
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The Blogs: How NYC’s New Left Makes Jews the Price of Admission | Juda Engelmayer
How Zohran Mamdani Uses Socialism as a Trojan Horse-and Why So Many Jews Keep Falling for It
Zohran Mamdani didn’t win the Democratic primary and has not become the leader in the polls by selling New Yorkers on an economic plan. He won by…
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The Blogs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Part II | Omer Biran
But every Eden has its serpent. The same light that revealed the laws of nature also cast new shadows. When we learned to measure the world, we mistook the measure for meaning. And in the vacuum left by God’s retreat, humanity crowned…
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The Blogs: Lost in Last Respects: Reflections on Yitzchak Rabin z”l | Solly Kaplinski
Yitzchak Rabin – 30 years since that traumatic day
As if it were yesterday…
The words that follow were written after a visit to Jerusalem, less than a month after his assassination.
Has anything changed?
Lost In Last Respects
Israel,…
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The Blogs: Were You Tempted to Cheat? | Claire R. Bright
A Shabbat-table question about AI turned into something older — what makes creation authentic?
Redemption is fine, but auto-completion is moral peril”
One Friday night, between candlelight and conversation, our Shabbat table looked like a…
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The Blogs: The Princess & the Prophetess – Sarah, Sarai, Iscah, Jessica | Reuven Chaim Klein
From the moment that Abraham’s wife is introduced in Genesis 12:29 and for the next five and a half chapters, her name is always given as Sarai (seventeen times). In Genesis 17:15, Hashem tells Abraham that his wife Sarai’s name should…
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The Blogs: Bridging the Gap: The Importance of Haredi Integration | Harel Ben-Michael
They Tried to Hide It.
They told us about a “prayer rally,” a show of solidarity “for the Torah.”
They tried to tell us it was against “the judicial system” and the Attorney General.
Well, they tried.But when the dust settled, and…
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The Blogs: The New Maccabees: Faith, Courage, and the Borderline of Belief | Susan Cohen
I never expected to find faith in a place built for fear. The wind off the Jordan Valley carried dust, prayer, and contradiction. On one side, a Jordanian woman hung her laundry in a different time zone. On the other, I saw the future of…
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