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I often feel like I live in multiple realities. Most of us do. As a Jewish woman in the diaspora, I can move through daily life talking about kids, work, meals, tennis, vacations, and avoid…

Every increase in tension between Washington and Tehran inevitably prompts the same question: will Iran block the Strait of Hormuz? The image is powerful, almost cinematic: a global choke point, an energy lever, a red geopolitical button. And…

About 105 years ago, the words attributed to Yosef Trumpeldor “It is good to die for our country” became a cornerstone of Israeli national consciousness. This statement,born from a reality of war and sacrifice, has shaped the Israeli…

At a campus campaign stop last week, Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate James Fishback dropped some unusual verbiage while inveighing against junk food in school cafeterias.

“I’m not saying that the test scores are…

Ramadan’s Mercy, Morocco’s Starving Dog.

Every year, as Ramadan approaches in the Kingdom of Light, the streets swell with sudden piety. The mosques fill, the sermons thunder, and the air thickens with ritual. But beneath the surface,…

Why are there no major protests on elite American campuses against the Iranian regime, despite its brutal suppression of dissent and the killing of tens of thousands of its own citizens?

Why is there so little sustained outrage over the mass…

In New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District, AIPAC just put a strident anti-Israel voice on the path to Congress. But hey, at least it alienated one of America’s two major political parties in the process.

Heckuva job,…

For more than four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has weaponized religion –distorting Shia Islam into an instrument of repression at home and coercion abroad. What began in 1979 as a revolution claiming moral legitimacy has hardened…

My father escaped from Germany (Hamburg) in 1938 as a ten-year old boy. He and his family ended up in Peru, and he came to the USA in 1949. I was born in Washington, DC, in 1963. Quite a few of our relatives did not escape, perishing by…

The “And” of History: Parshat Mishpatim and the Unbroken Chain of a Fourth Generation in Eretz Yisrael

I had the great privilege—truly a moving privilege—of attending the Bris of my first cousin’s great-grandchild. This was more…