Today isn’t just a memorial date – it’s a reminder of how much of our story gets erased. My family was expelled from Syria. Not “encouraged to leave.” Not “relocated.” Expelled. Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad, Tripoli, Cairo – cities where…
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Erased From History – Remembrance Day for Jewish Refugees From Arab Lands
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The Man Who Put Iran’s Revolt on Israel’s Walls
There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of artist. The first treats art as a private luxury, a pleasantly decorative accompaniment to life. The second insists that art is a weapon, or at least a form of testimony, and behaves accordingly. Hooman…
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Ondas continues Israel defense-tech buying spree
Through a series of acquisitions in Israel, starting with Airobotics, the US company has built an autonomous systems division, and it aims to expand further.
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Five Years Later, Abraham Accords Still Anchor Regional Cooperation
On Thursday, the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT) and the UK Abraham Accords Group (UKAAG) signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen their cooperation on artificial intelligence, bringing together Israel, the United Kingdom, and the…
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Albert Battel, Righteous Among Nations
The Day One German Officer Said “No” And Saved Dozens of Jewish Lives History often remembers the powerful, the monstrous, the architects of destruction. But sometimes the most important stories begin with a single, ordinary man who decides…
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Gett Smart!
I like ordering cabs on the Gett app. The cars are often late-model and mostly spotless: Kias, Skodas, Toyotas. Once I rode in a Mercedes E220. The cabs come soon and take us where we need to go. While you wait for a driver to…
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A Kiss Is But a Kiss: The Risk to Our Continuity
A Kiss Is But a Kiss: Torah, History, and the Risk to Our Continuity Today, I saw pictures of long queues outside the Portuguese Embassy—Jews standing for hours to obtain or renew Portuguese passports. Many Sephardi Jews, and even some…
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War vs. Diplomacy
Since the “ceasefire” began over a month ago, on October 10, 2025, it seems that the extreme right-wing government of Israel has been itching to go back to war. Why? What is it that makes this government so trigger-happy, so much more…
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Answer to the article questioning the action of the State of Israel and IDF
Answer to the article questioning the action of the State of Israel and its sword and shield, IDF. While doing my usual morning routine, reading The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, I encounter in The Jerusalem Post an…
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The History They Erased: Israel, Indigeneity, and Truth
This blog is a reflection on The Untold Story of Indigeneity, Palestine, and Why the World Keeps Getting Israel Wrong November 29 has become one of the great ironies of modern history. On this day in 1947, the United Nations voted to partition…
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