Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has achieved the unthinkable: weakening Spain while strengthening Morocco.
Through ideology, arrogance, and diplomatic vanity, the socialist leader has severed ties with Israel — one of the…
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The Blogs: Why am I not happy? | Lore Herzog
Instead of overwhelming relief and joy, I feel downtrodden, exhausted, and socially spent. I’ve been jubilant during former releases, but that version of myself is nowhere to be found.
“You can’t put toothpaste back into the tube,” a…
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The Blogs: Freedom: Ransoming Our Own | Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel
It happened on a festival of joy.
On Tishri 22, 5784 – October 7, 2023 Simḥat Torah (שמחת תורה), when Jews dance with the scroll that binds heaven and earth, Israel awoke to horror. The day that celebrates divine intimacy became…
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The Blogs: Now Comes the Hard Part | Steven J. Frank
The living hostages are home and the IDF has redeployed to agreed-upon lines in Gaza, completing the initial phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan. Although excluded by diplomatic hardball from the signing ceremony in…
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The Blogs: Dear Colleagues – Our 20 are Home! | Carmel Pelunsky
Released hostage Omri Miran is reunited with his daughters Roni, 4, and Alma, 2, and wife Lishay Miran-Lavi, at Ichilov Hospital after he was released from Hamas captivity in Gaza on October 13, 2025 (GPO)
If you bump into a Jewish…
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How NYC mayoral candidates reacted to the release of the Israeli hostages, from Gematria to Gaza
This piece first ran as part of The Countdown, our daily newsletter rounding up all the developments in the New York City mayor’s race. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. There are 21 days to the election.
- Andrew Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and…
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The Blogs: Daniel: A True Hero Who’ll Never Walk Alone | Ben Lazarus
In March 2024, I wrote an article titled “Daniel: A True Hero,” honoring the life and sacrifice of Captain Daniel Perez Z”TL. Tonight, after Chag, we received the solemn news that Daniel’s body has been returned to Israel. This moment…
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The Blogs: The genocide that wasn’t | Harry Katcher
For those who claim genocide in Gaza, the numbers paint an embarrassing reality. Their assertions stem from either ignorance, stubborn ideology, or sheer bigotry — not exactly the best foundations for moral outrage. Because when you…
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The Blogs: Denial and the Evasion of Empathy | Philip Graubart
When I was an undergraduate at Northwestern University from 1978-1982 a tenured mechanical engineering professor named Arthur Butz published a book called “The Hoax of the Twentieth Century” denying the Holocaust. Every once in a while a…
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The Blogs: Six Seven: The Sacred Rhythm of a Meaningless Meme | Dan Moskovitz
Lately, math teachers have been living in fear of two numbers: six and seven.
If you say them together in class, “Turn to page 67,” or “Do problems six and seven” chaos erupts. Students throw up their hands, yell “Six Seven!” and…
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