Embed from Getty Images I am what I sometimes call a hybrid. I am Israeli and a proud American citizen. I have lived in Florida for more than twenty years. That means I understand both worlds — not from headlines, but from life. I understand…
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When Loudspeakers Cross the Line in Israel: A Debate Over “Forced Acceptance”
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The Blogs: Victory, Deterrence, and the Logic of War | Elli Lieberman
On many occasions in the period leading to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Hamas had been deterred. Since Operation Guardian of the Walls, he noted, not a single rocket had been fired…
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The Blogs: Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl Ad — And What Message We Truly Need | Jonathan Muskat
Robert Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism aired a Super Bowl commercial depicting a Jewish high school student being harassed when another student sticks a hateful note on his back. A bystander intervenes by covering the slur with a…
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The Blogs: What Finishing Tanakh Taught Me About Being Human | Chavi Eisenberg
This week I finished my third cycle of Nach Yomi with the OU’s Torah Imecha program.
On paper, that means I’ve “completed” Tanakh three times. In real life, it means something else.
It means I’ve spent years living with these…
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The Blogs: Law, Power, Truth, and the Fear of Freedom: Parshat Mishpatim | Naomi Graetz
Gemini Cartoon triptych for Mishpatim Parshat Mishpatim brings with it an embarrassment of riches for anyone inclined to think seriously about law, power, and moral responsibility. Far from being a “boring” legal appendix to the…
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The Blogs: Palestinian 2026 Heritage Grabbing Frenzy | Shimon Samuels
A report by Shimon Samuels and Alex Uberti
After having denounced the Palestinian appetite for Jewish and Christian heritage for 15 years at the UNESCO World Heritage Committee sessions – from Mumbai to Riyadh, Manama, Cracow, Doha, Bonn,…
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The Blogs: Israel Isn’t Going Anywhere. Its Blossoming AI Economy Proves It. | Elisha Baker
Anti-Zionists today have this delusion that the State of Israel is temporary. To them, it’s not just evil but the forever-target to be attacked, isolated, and delegitimized out of existence over time. From the uncompromising Khartoum…
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The Blogs: The Role of the Museum of Tolerance in Advancing Healthcare Values | Alexander Woodman
MEXICO CITY – Museo Memoria y Tolerancia (the Museum of Tolerance), located in the heart of Mexico City, explores both the positive and negative sides of humanity, alongside the empathy and compassion that can be gleaned from traversing its…
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The Blogs: Ritual Will Not Be Weaponized | Karen Reiss Medwed
The Jewish divorce, the Get, gained noteriety again this week, with another case in Israel where a husband did not grant his wife her Get, this time for 30 years. For thirty years the Orthodox Rabbinic courts could not resolve this situation,…
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The Blogs: When ‘Religious Liberty’ turned on the Jews — and corrected itself | Stephen M. Flatow
The removal of a commissioner after an antisemitism hearing controversy offers a lesson in accountability
When President Donald Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission, the stated mission was straightforward: defend Americans’…
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