This Thanksgiving does not feel like the ones we grew up with, and there is no pretending otherwise. For American Jews, this holiday — long cherished as a celebration of safety, gratitude, and belonging — arrives during one of the darkest and…
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This Thanksgiving, American Jews Are Done Staying Quiet
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Kazakh Minerals Poised to Shape Green Transition
Kazakhstan, which was long known for its oil and uranium exports, has now started positioning itself as a central player in the global race for critical raw materials (CRMs). With the European Union expanding its green and digital transformation,…
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Debunking Myths of Jewish Slave Trade Role
(This is Article 5 of the seven-part series, “Bridges of Liberation: Jewish & African Paths to Freedom.” The full disclaimer regarding the author’s independent views is contained in the preceding article: Article 1: We Want You Back). We have…
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The Death Penalty Debate and What I Couldn’t Fit into the Column
A few days ago, Ynet published my Hebrew op-ed on the renewed push for the death penalty in Israel. To my surprise, they also translated it into English and released it on Ynetnews, which means many readers outside Israel were suddenly exposed to…
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The Path of Yaakov and the Path of Each of Us
When a Jew opens the weekly Torah portion, he feels that the words speak to him as vividly and directly as they once spoke to Yaakov. Not because the world has remained unchanged, and not because we resemble the figures of the Torah, but because…
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Why Jew-Hatred Isn’t Just ‘Anti-Semitism’
In the wake of the Tucker Carlson interview with Nick Fuentes and the global eruption of anti-Zionism after the October 7th massacre, we can see how badly our language fails to capture the hostility facing Jews today. These two moments differ in…
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A Sacred Place
A few hours before I went into labor with my first child, I told my husband that I was going to go take the last uninterrupted nap of my life. It was said in jest but I could not have understood how true that would…
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MAGA Antisemitism Fails with Conservative Christians
In the last couple of weeks, the Republican Party has been torn over questions of antisemitism and free speech after the MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson gave a friendly interview to Nick Fuentes, a Nazi sympathizer and an open antisemite. Senator…
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Niqab in Academia? A Question of Reciprocity
In November 2025, the Adalah Center, which advocates for the rights of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel, filed a lawsuit in the Tel Aviv District Court against Bar-Ilan University. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Hala Odeh, an optometry…
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The Cracks in the Wall: How Oct 7 Fractured A Millennial Certainty
For years, amillennial theology gave many believers a sense that the story was sewn up—clean, coherent, centered on Christ. It told them that Israel’s land, identity, and covenant vocation had all finished their arc in the church, like…
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