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The Jewish governor of Pennsylvania this week rebuked one of his state’s most visible elected officials for comparing ICE officers to Nazis, leading to a protracted war of words between the two men. 

The spat between…

Parashat Yitro marks one of the most consequential moments in human history.

The Exodus is complete.
The sea has split.
The people are free.

And yet the Torah does not linger on freedom. It does not pause to celebrate liberation. Instead, it…

Washington’s constitutional outrage has always been selective. In 2011, former President Barack Obama launched a major war in Libya without congressional authorization, leaning on the legal fiction that sustained air warfare somehow did not…

Israel’s security in an era of transactional backing

What happens when American power is guided less by alliances and more by transactions? What does Israel do when the personality anchoring its strategic certainty is no longer in…

On October 22, 2025, former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert came to speak with Nasser Al-Qudwa, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority, in front of the Yale Political Union (YPU). I stood up to ask a…

America’s ICE practices echo the SA’s early tactics — and Jews should recognize the warning signs

By now, “Nazi” comparisons have become so cheap in American life that many readers understandably recoil the moment one appears. Jews,…

The haftarah for Parshat Yitro recounts the call to prophecy of Yeshayahu, a moment of initial contact with the Divine that is vivid, unsettling, and transformative. It parallels in many ways the revelation experienced by the people of…

Since the attacks of October 7, anonymous Jews have risen in defense of justice and truth, facing a daily battle not only against terror but also against narratives that shape public opinion. In Brazil, where a significant portion of the…

Since the end of World War II, Vienna has functioned as an Ellis Island for Jewish refugees from Europe and the Middle East, a place where survivors, dissidents and religious minorities arrived with little more than…

Israeli identity links modern life to ancient Jewish roots. After nearly 2,000 years of exile, Jews returned from across the world, and after 1948 Israel absorbed huge waves from Europe, the Arab world, and beyond. The country revived…