Of all the facets of my identity, “writer” is my favorite one. I started writing when I was 14 years old, shortly after my older brother died at age 19. I wrote poems that captured my grief and sorrow. Within a few seconds of writing a…
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Which hostage families was Zohran Mamdani quoting? Here’s what we learned.
This piece first ran as part of The Countdown, our daily newsletter rounding up all the developments in the New York City mayor’s race. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. There are 35 days to the election.
We looked into Mamdani’s…
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The Blogs: Haftarat Parshat Haazinu: God’s Strength in Our Hands | Kenneth Brander
The custom is to read “David’s Song” (II Samuel ch. 22) as the haftara for Parshat Haazinu, which itself consists of Moshe’s parting song to the people of Israel. The themes of the two songs are different: Moshe’s song is a severe…
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The Blogs: Forgiveness | Carol Silver Elliott
Nelson Mandela, who endured 27 years of unjustified imprisonment, is a model of forgiveness. He spoke about it eloquently and, more importantly, he made it a tenet of his life. One of the powerful messages he shared on this topic was “We…
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The Blogs: Healing the Wounds of War: A Soldier’s Story of Recovery | Maccabi Lev Ari
He still carries the battlefield inside his body. A shard of shrapnel lodged against a nerve, months after the blast.
Beneath my hands, his quadriceps resisted release. Not from overtraining or a pulled muscle — but from the pain of a piece…
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The Blogs: The moral courage to pray with the transgressors | Sergio Bergman
With the sanction of the Almighty, and with the sanction of the congregation, by of the Heavenly Court, and by authority of the earthly court, we hereby grant permission to pray with those who have transgressed.
On the eve of Yom Kippur,…
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The Blogs: An Accident of Birth: The Unlikely Path to True Belief | Yahya A. Sharif
If you are born in rural Afghanistan, you are almost certain to be Muslim. If you are born in the heart of India, you are most likely to be Hindu. If you are born in small-town Mississippi, you are almost assuredly Christian.
This is not a…
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The Blogs: The IDF cannot be Britain’s excuse for antisemitism | Simon Kupfer
In April of this year, I wrote a piece in Haaretz to underline concerns that ten British citizens who served in the Israeli military may soon face war crimes investigations in the United Kingdom. At that point, there was a quickly blurring…
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The Blogs: INTO THE FRAY: Fabricating Genocide? | Martin Sherman
The truth has been turned on its head. Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization whose charter calls for the murder of all Jews on the planet, this genocidal organization is given a pass.
“You forget can’t forget October 7th…That was…
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The Blogs: Did Israel just stop Russian influence in the Middle East? | Amine Ayoub
For decades, Moscow played a masterful double game in the Middle East: courting Tehran and Damascus, preserving a military foothold in Syria, deploying private contractors across the region, and simultaneously keeping channels open to Israel…
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