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Well informed investigative personnel have uncovered a coordinated and well-funded tactic employed by anti-Semites and anti-Israel activists. Recent reports and legal cases have highlighted instances of paid and coordinated Islamist…

I was born at Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem, which I know only because I have memorized the name. 

Hadassah, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel. 

I say it to myself sometimes the way other people say prayers. As though precision, or the…

I’m certain that you don’t know this about me: I was born several decades ago on Simchat Torah. In fact, during childhood my mother would affectionately call me her “Simchat Torah” baby and alternatively, but no less affectionately,…

Jewish life in the United States is evolving, and so too are the legal questions surrounding Jewish identity, peoplehood, and civil rights.

For decades, antisemitism and other forms of Jew hatred were widely regarded as fringe social…

When Donald Trump called upon Israel’s President Isaac Herzog to issue a pardon for Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, Bibi entered into a class of criminals he should have avoided.

Trump said Herzog “should be ashamed of himself” for not…

I feel that violence is invading more and more of our lives, not just in our struggle against external enemies, but here inside where we live. I am more worried about Israel than I have ever been in the 50 years since my aliya, not least…

Israel may be tiny, but it packs stunning geographic and cultural range—Mediterranean beaches, mystical hilltop cities, desert landscapes, and even ski slopes. Every region offers a different rhythm of life. Across the country,…

Nobody is pulling the wool over President Trump’s eyes

To paraphrase Shakespeare, “will he or won’t he, that is the question.” Will President Trump order the U.S. military to attack Iran? All over the United States; indeed all over…

I joined the National Association of Social Workers soon after receiving my MSW in the early 1980s. It was an organization whose values I believed in: advocacy for the vulnerable, intolerance of hate, and a willingness to examine the…

In January 2026, Bloomberg published a year-long investigation into a transnational corporate and property network whose ultimate beneficial ownership, according to sources and a Western intelligence assessment cited in the report, leads to…