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“We must stand with all our might to protect (Israel’s) right to exist… I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world… an oasis of brotherhood.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King, speech to Rabbinical Assembly (March…

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL

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Through the Holy Land with Benjamin of Tudela:
A 12th-Century Chronicle

Benjamin of Tudela’s meticulous 12th-century journey through Eretz Yisrael documented Jewish communities surviving under…

From a rational-choice perspective, the current Iran–United States–Israel interaction is best modeled as a three-player bargaining game conducted under the shadow of war. The actors possess asymmetric capabilities and divergent risk…

This week, I want to pull JNR’s camera back from the trending headlines and point it at two places the mainstream media rarely lingers long enough to understand: Gaza’s operational reality, and the Palestinian classroom.

Because if you…

In the Warsaw Ghetto, one man chose to laugh

In the Warsaw Ghetto, where nearly 400,000…

When newly released audio recordings revealed former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak discussing mass conversion and selective immigration with Jeffrey Epstein, disgraced financier and the convicted sex trafficker, the…

Last Shabbat in our shul I watched a little boy holding his father’s hand in front of the open Aron Kodesh.
His head tilted upward toward the colorful Sifrei Torah.
At first he simply gazed at this holy sight.
Then his tiny hand touched his…

I recently found myself in an exchange with a distinguished physicist about Israel, Zionism, and the war in Gaza. A colleague I long regarded as a thoughtful interlocutor had undergone a profound transformation in his views. What began as a…

When Freedom Feels Like Too Many Choices

How do you take your coffee?

Hot or cold?
Black, latte, or instant?
Dairy, oat, soy, almond?
Sugar? Sweetener? Stevia?
Mug or glass?

You’re already tired- and you haven’t even taken a sip.

We laugh…

Kenya was my home for ten years, from 1985 to 1995. I was sent there as an anthropological researcher for McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was tasked with…