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The Blogs: To fight today’s anti-Israel propaganda, remember yesterday’s | Izabella Tabarovsky
Since October 7, anti-Israel propaganda has been relentless. Wave after wave of manufactured images, fake news, and doctored statistics have swept through social and legacy media alike. The impact has been felt on multiple levels: it harms…
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The Blogs: Book review: Divrei Halev – Words From The Heart – Thoughts of Rabbi Professor David Weiss | Ben Rothke
Written by American theologian Jonathan Edwards in 1741, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is a sermon that was the catalyst for the First Great Awakening. Like other works by Edwards, it combines vivid imagery of the sinner’s…
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The Blogs: Saving the billionaires | Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden
Less is more
The Jewish tradition says it clearly: those with 50 need 100; those with 100 want 200; and those with 200 seek to get to 400. It’s never enough. Worse than that, the more you have, the more you feel you lack!
Many of the super-rich…
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The Blogs: Countercultural Moral Courage | Saul Paves
How to Be Righteous When No One Else Is
In recent years, we have witnessed extreme episodes that tested the strength of corporate systems of oversight, auditing, and governance across the world. Too often, they failed.
Despite sophisticated…
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The Blogs: The ideological emptiness of the political opposition in Israel | Jaime Kardontchik
The unexpected 25-24 vote result in the Israeli parliament in favor of setting a process to apply Israeli sovereignty on the West Bank, with the prominent Likud party member, Yuli Edelstein, casting the decisive vote in favor of the…
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The Blogs: Anti-Semitism and the Collapse of Moral Clarity in Higher Education | Tim Orr
A Historian’s Warning
When Victor Davis Hanson spoke Pierce Morgan’s show some months ago about “Anti-Semitism and Higher Education,” his message was blunt: America’s universities talk endlessly about justice but show little of the…
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The Blogs: The Big Lie: How 58 Years of Enshrined Lies Made ‘Genocide’ Believable | Maccabi Lev Ari
Decades of propaganda and repetition turned falsehood into moral reflex — and truth into heresy.
The Spark
For fifty years, unverified language from NGOs and media softened the moral ground. Words like apartheid, genocide, and ethnic…
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The Blogs: Which cabinet minister would you vote onto your building’s tenants’ committee? | Tova Herzl
Which of our cabinet ministers would you choose to be a member of your building’s residents’ committee? The question isn’t meant to belittle the committees — I’m a member myself. For readers who live in private houses or in large…
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The Blogs: The Silence that led to Silence | Gavriel Rosen
Noach was a good man. The world was corrupt and God would destroy it. Noach was to build an ark. He did. Noach was to save the animals. He did. He even gathered food for each of them. Noach was told to take his family into the ark. He did….
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