History has a brutal sense of irony, and last week it surfaced in a tweet from Kirill Dmitriev, a Kremlin power broker close to Vladimir Putin. Addressing New York politician Zohran Mamdani, Dmitriev delivered a line that should have stopped…
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The Blogs: Why Israel Matters in the Critical Minerals Race | Josh Kram
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Since President Trump took office, securing reliable access to critical minerals has been elevated as a core pillar of U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy. Critical minerals are the essential raw…
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The Blogs: This Is Not the End of Jewish Life. It’s the Moment That Will Define It | Anchelle Perl
Jewish Life Is Facing a Reckoning — and That’s Not a Bad Thing
Now Is A Time of Clarification, Not Collapse
By Rabbi Anchelle Perl
At moments of pressure, societies often mistake exposure for erosion. When things become uncomfortable,…
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The Blogs: Street Tefillah | Elisha Fine
I lead a Jewish street art movement that took shape in the months following October 7, 2023. Together with a partner and a small team, I printed and distributed more than 400,000 Kidnapped stickers after the hostage poster movement began to…
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The Blogs: Novi God: Heirlooms from a place that no longer exists | Meir Gorodskoy
When January comes around, seasonal depression accelerates into the anxiety of self-improvement and its anticipated failure.
For millions of post-Soviet people around the world, Novi God is a kind of antithesis to the cooperative delusions of…
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The Blogs: How Do America’s Adversaries View Maduro’s Arrest? | Ted Gover
The January 3, 2026 extraction of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces marks one of the most dramatic American interventions in Latin America in decades. For the first time since the Cold War, a sitting Western Hemisphere leader aligned with…
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The Blogs: How Living in Israel Changed My Relationship to Time | Morgane Koresh
After living in Israel for years, time stopped meaning the same thing.
January first now passes quietly for me.
I notice it. I acknowledge it. And then I move on.
That reaction would have surprised me years ago. I grew up in France, where…
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Elbit Systems stock opens 2026 at record high
The Israeli defense electronics company’s share price rose 124% in 2025, boosted by increased defense budgets worldwide.
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The Blogs: Joseph and His Brothers | Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
First published in German in 1944,
It was with an immense sense of achievement (and a huge sigh of relief) that I finished this classic, which I read over a period of several months. This weighty tome comprising almost 1,500 pages of…
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The Blogs: Trump and the Israel Prize | Berl Falbaum
As we all know, President Trump loves receiving awards, even if one comes from a leader whom he not so long ago apparently considered “obsessive” and “a deep, dark son-of-a-b____.”
As Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu…
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