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Prof. Mohammed Wattad* and Adv. Wisam Asmar** 

Many times, we have encountered false ideas about Rotary, such as the belief that it is an elitist group, a secret society, or part of the Freemasons – all of which are entirely wrong. These…

In addition to Israel and Hamas having to meet all of their obligations under the signed agreement, and to cease and desist from all violations and breaches, there are several things that must happen immediately – some of them in parallel,…

Now that we seem to be nearing the end (at least partially) of one of the darkest chapters in the nation’s history, we can take a moment to breathe and reflect on everything we have been through over the past two years. One of the distinct…

Like Schwartz in the old Jewish joke, you can almost picture Israel armed, alert, and diplomatically dressed waiting for the world to show up. Maybe someone will come, we think. But after this war, the wiser question isn’t who arrives, but…

The barbaric massacre carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, strengthened the Israeli narrative that Palestinian society in its entirety is violent and murderous. On October 7, Palestinian violence did indeed reach its peak, but a…

Hostages Are Not Prisoners: The Moral Line We Must Not Blur

In today’s world of moral confusion and social media distortions, one of the most disturbing trends has been the deliberate blurring of lines between Israel’s lawful detention of…

There is no spectacle more tragic and infuriating than Jews waving Palestinian flags, chanting for “liberation,” and joining movements that would gladly erase them from the earth. We have seen this suicidal blindness before, and it ended…

Israel’s war was brutal, flawed, and human. But not genocidal. The real casualty may be our ability to tell the difference.

The war in Gaza has ended. If “ended” is the word one can ever use for a place where dust still hangs in the air…

My wife and I spent the Jewish High Holy Days of 2010 and 2012 in Poland helping Poles who had discovered their ancestors had been Jewish to return to their Jewish People.

I offer this wonderful perspective for the new Jewish year of 5786…

Introduction: The World Built on Africa

We often tell the story of the modern world — the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution — as though it was written only in Europe. Yet beneath Europe’s…