While “ceasefire” activists once filled the streets calling for peace, their silence after the Sharm El Sheikh agreement exposes a deeper truth — this was never truly about the Palestinians. The selective outrage of the smartphone…
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The Blogs: Radicalized by Outrage, Silenced by Ceasefire | Karen Klein
Now that a ceasefire is in effect, the “ceasefire now” movement has gone silent. There is no collective sigh of relief, no public jubilee, barely even an acknowledgment that what they screamed for just weeks ago has come to fruition. What…
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The Blogs: A Prayer for the Kanaani Cats | Mikhail Salita
(and for all beings who carry the living soul — nefesh)
For it is said: whoever saves one creature saves an entire world.
It all began in September 2024, during a class called Blessing of the Animals at the Jewish Spiritual Leaders…
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The Blogs: That’s What Friends Are For | Bob Avraham Yermus
The last couple of weeks have been emotionally taxing, if nothing else. The realization of a major goal of this instalment of Israel’s war of independence — the return of 20 living hostages — is monumental. We of course had help.
And…
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The Blogs: Thoughts on Summer 2025 | Natan Kohn-Magnus
At face value this year’s summer vacation (August) was about as mundane, as routine, as could be expected for an Israeli family. How to juggle all the various balls that are our children, our work obligations, all complicated by the lack of…
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The Blogs: The West Needs a Day-After Plan Too! | Sharonne Blum
Now that there is a 20-point plan for Israelis and Palestinians and really the whole Middle East, I think the West needs one too.
The world was screaming for a day-after-plan pretty much as soon as Israel retaliated against the October 7…
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The Blogs: One Man’s Terrorist is Another’s Freedom Fighter | Ben Lazarus
I know which side I am on but underlying the expression “One Man’s Terrorist Is Another’s Freedom Fighter” is a truth we must acknowledge. Feelings Trump Facts.
Over the past two years, I’ve been deeply engaged in advocacy for…
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The Blogs: Still Missing: Where Is Haymanut? | Susan Cohen
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Israel once moved heaven and earth to bring her community home. Now one little girl from that same community has been missing for nearly two years—and too few are counting the days.It’s been 600 days since ten-year-old Haimanot…
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Smile
Life. Friendship. Israel. A modern day miracle. There are many things to be happy about. But here’s something. When I was younger, the Lubavitcher Rebbe once told me: “Tsuzamen mit di simcha fun dain yoim moiledes, iz der Aibishter freilich…
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The Blogs: On To Bernie Sanders: Depreciation Tax Schedule Change When Robots Take Our Jobs | Vincent James Hooper
As artificial intelligence and robotics march deeper into the workplace — from Amazon’s warehouses to Tesla’s assembly lines and even newsrooms — governments everywhere face a modern fiscal riddle: if machines are replacing human…
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