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If you ask your grandma what a cloud is, she will tell you that it’s a white and fluffy thing in the sky. Also in the tech world, they are a great concept: You can upload your pictures to a big cloud castle in the sky that keeps them nice…

Looking back at 2025, in our end of year retrospective, it was astonishing to see the strength of the Israeli economy, placed among the 30 largest in the world. Israel’s per capita GDP that year was ahead of Britain’s, Germany’s, and…

When unity replaces debate, Israel risks losing both

Last summer, during the Birthright Excel program, I found myself in a conversation I hadn’t had since October 7. Sitting with young Jews from all over the world – people who had…

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives.

Will Sussman first made his name on campus, not…

After October 7, stories about Israeli humanitarian aid can sound like hasbara—a Hebrew term for public diplomacy or advocacy meant to improve Israel’s image. So in Part 1 of this two-part series, Noam Weissman asks a harder…

Activism has long been a defining force in American public life. From labor movements to civil rights marches, it is how voices have been heard, norms have been challenged, and lasting change has taken hold. But recently, I’ve watched…

Over the past…

The meeting scheduled for Friday in Istanbul between U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi seems a last, narrowing opportunity to prevent a direct confrontation between the United States and Iran—one…

The Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism (AOCE), a unit of Al Azhar University of Cairo, held a meeting in January at the Anawati Chair of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, with the apparent support of the EU, to promote…

Rani Gvili, the last hostage, was brought home to be buried in Israel. The clock at Hostage  Square was turned off at 843 days. Unbelievably, for the first time since 2014, there are no hostages in Gaza. Many, including me never thought this…