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Are efforts to combat antisemitism useful? Do they help reduce antisemitism? Or are they just a waste of time and resources?

Those questions have moved to the center of Jewish communal discourse. On March 1, the 92d Street Y in New York will…

In the past 10 years, the Stamford Orthodox Jewish community has experienced geometric growth.  Several new kosher restaurants have opened, Torah learning has expanded, and youth activities at both Orthodox synagogues are bursting at the…

It was snarky.

The commenter was completely assured that there is no left-wing in Israel or the Jewish diaspora, and that any nuance to views on Israel is a lie.  Tell that to The New Israel Fund. He compared Israel to South Africa. It was…

וְנוֹעַדְתִּי לְךָ שָׁם וְדִבַּרְתִּי אִתְּךָ מֵעַל הַכַּפֹּרֶת מִבֵּין שְׁנֵי הַכְּרֻבִים אֲשֶׁר עַל־אֲרוֹן הָעֵדֻת אֵת…

This week, Arbel Yehud spoke publicly about her experience in Hamas captivity. She described relentless sexual abuse—from the very beginning of her captivity until the very end. Hundreds of days of sexual torture.

It is unstomachable. It is…

On January 4, 2023, Israel’s Minister of Justice convened a press conference to announce the launch of a ‘governance reform’. The plan was presented as a unique solution to a specific Israeli crisis of governance. In reality, however,…

On February 15, 2026, the fiction of a unified Libyan state officially dissolved, not with the roar of artillery, but with the silent fall of a gavel in a Benghazi courtroom. The Supreme Constitutional Court’s ruling to strip Abdullah Abu…

In this disruptive moment, where one encounters anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in multiple spaces, there is a counter movement in play to reframe both the meaning and message of Zionism and to build the case for Israel.

Zionism is currently…

As the war in Gaza shapes global opinion, death tolls are increasingly treated as a moral verdict- a deeply misleading way to judge war.

In modern war, public judgment often follows a deceptively simple formula: count the dead, and you will…

Western Cape and the Fragmentation Doctrine
Governance Competence, Constitutional Self-Determination, and the Recognition Standard That Must Apply Symmetrically

INTERNATIONAL LAW AS BINDING CONSTRAINT: THE ICJ CONSISTENCY TEST

When South…