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Twenty-four hours after the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro by the United States, it is now clear that all of the hubbub about the country over the last many months was all just preparation for the illegal American seizure of the…

There are books that are not written with ink or letters.

They cannot be printed, bound, or placed on a shelf. These books are read through attention, silence, and presence. Kabbalah teaches that the world itself is such a book. Creation is a…

Long before Israel existed as a state, Jewish engineers were already doing what Israel is known for today: solving impossible problems with vision, science, and determination. One of the clearest and least discussed examples is the…

About 9,550 years ago in what is today northern Malawi, hunter-gatherers built a pyre in a rock shelter to cremate a person short in statue but apparently, large in status.

The pyre at Hora-1 is the earliest ritual cremation discovered to date in…

A recent Times of Israel blog post by Canada-based activist Shabnam Assadollahi attempts to diagnose the failures of the Iranian opposition by clinging to a nostalgic and exclusionary vision of the past. While the author laments that the…

I am a North Georgia native, and my first encounter with a visible symbol of white supremacy came in late elementary school. I remember the moment clearly because I was deep into a Civil War novel, Across Five Aprils, and had begun to…

When governments recognize sovereignty before borders, security arrangements, or governance are resolved, they do not merely acknowledge reality—they manufacture it. Recognition becomes the engine of outcomes rather than their…

I can still see myself as a ten-year-old boy watching Walter Cronkite on the evening news and counting the days Americans were held hostage during the Iranian Revolution. At that time, Iran was not just an idea; it came into American homes every…

In my career as rabbi, I have often been challenged by students who were turned off by their respective schools. Their complaint is that they were not taught subjects that inspire. All they learned were Halachic prohibitions that became very…

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL

1834
R. Yehudah Alkalai publishes his first book on
Jewish settlement and political independence in the Land of Israel

R. Yehudah Alkalai, a fervent advocate for Jewish return to the Land of Israel, was one…