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HISTORY MATTERS BECAUSE FACTS MATTER

The profound contradiction embedded in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion represents one of history’s more striking ironies: the forgers who fabricated this antisemitic tract chose Zion, a Hebrew term…

Hearing the Torah’s call to conscience amid the bloodshed in Gaza and the West Bank, and the deafening propaganda of our time.

This week’s Torah reading, Vayeira, compels us to confront two profoundly disturbing narratives that place the…

Every ideology that calls itself rational reveals not truth, but fear.

Lev Deych’s latest post, “The Ideology Behind Anti-Zionism,” reads like an attempt to preserve a rational ground in a world that long ago ceased to be simple. The…

The 515-page 2025 exceptional book “Accepting and Excepting: On Pluralism and Chosenness out of the Sources of Judaism” is by Raphael Jospe, one of the most respected contemporary voices in Jewish philosophy. Jospe gives readers very…

The predictable antizionist mantra claims “antizionism is not antisemitism.” The mantra is right: antizionism is not classical antisemitism. But it misses the point: antizionism is itself a powerful form of Jew Hatred. It is different in…

Over a period of two years on a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship in Israel, I befriended engineers working at local and global startups in Haifa, attended an Arab Christian wedding in Nazareth, drank wine in the Upper Galilee with an Iraqi…

While it is still early to assess how the annual UN climate conference COP30, which opens tomorrow in Belém, Brazil – a location whose choice testifies on  the conference’s emphases as biodiversity, and the importance of preserving the…

Nearly a year into the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the illusion of calm along the northern border is quickly fading. Beneath the surface of supposed stability, Hezbollah has been quietly rebuilding its war machine….

“The great souls feel in the depths of their being their connection to all existence, to all creatures and especially to all humankind…they announce  the lights of new life…The Godly song is awake in the souls of the great…