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Some of my most important lessons in life I learned from Jewish verses about trees.

1. From the following, I learned that I should be an environmental activist, working to help preserve the world:

In the hour when the Holy one, blessed be He,…

I feel like there’s a certain value in being born Jewish. Belonging isn’t a question and your loyalty is almost always unearned but copious. When you’re born into an ethnic group, especially a minority group, you cling to the other…

Saudi Arabia and the limits of regional strategy

In a recent report, Turkiye Today, citing sources close to Saudi military leadership, stated that Ankara has no intention of joining any Saudi–Pakistani defense pact and that cooperation…

African and Jewish Americans have been bound together in a deeply intertwined relationship despite their historical, religious and cultural differences and divergent priorities.

Since the formation of the American republic more than two…

In a recent New York Times article, “Students Are Finding New Ways to Cheat on the SAT,” it was reported that websites in China are selling SAT test questions and that software has been developed to bypass test protections and security…

Author: Engineer Abdi Ali Barkad

Between 1988 and 1989, the military government of Mohamed Siad Barre conducted large-scale military operations in the northern regions of the Somali Republic, corresponding largely to present-day Somaliland….

Somalia’s outrage over Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is less about principle than conviction. Mogadishu is not objecting to normalization with Israel because it considers such relations inherently wrong; it is reacting because…

Boards spend a lot of time discussing values and priorities. But long before those words land, organizations are already learning from the systems boards allow to stand.

Boards are often described as the guardians of mission.

They approve…

From Anne Frank to AI deepfakes, what is to be done about technology amplifying sexualised antisemitic memes?

Recent news concerning the generating and sharing on social media, specifically X, of sexualised images of women and children…

On January 25, and ironically two days before the International Holocaust Day of Remembrance, Tim Walz stood at a press conference and decided to go for a travesty of a blunder to add to his already extensive repertoire: an evocation of the…