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Now that the New York mayoral race is over, we have an opportunity to reflect on the discourse that occurred around this in the Jewish community. Various Rabbinic leaders in Jewish communities across North America chose to make public…

Kazakhstan is expected to announce Thursday that it will join the Abraham Accords during President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s White House meeting with President Donald Trump, Axios and other media outlets reported, citing…

I’ll be honest: I didn’t expect to feel gut-punched on Tuesday night. I knew Mamdani was going to win.

I’d been telling myself that for months, really ever since the primary made it clear the numbers weren’t in our favor.

I tried to…

Parents often ask me why I believe the Middle School years in a Jewish Day School are so important. Years ago, when I taught Jewish history and Jewish text to Middle Schoolers, I saw firsthand how powerful those years can be. I watched…

Mamdani is a vocal supporter of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to eliminate the world’s lone Jewish state, afloat among a sea of 53 Muslim states. He accused Israel of committing genocide, he referred to…

When the present feels unbearably loud, it’s worth pausing to ask what, if anything, history can really teach us. Even when we strip away the noise and the quarrels, history remains a reluctant teacher, insisting only that we cannot draw…

For more than a week there has been an explosion of commentary about the “platforming” of antisemitism by right wing commentator Tucker Carlson following his hosting of avowed Nazi Nick Fuentes. In this interview, Carlson not only…

Since the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began this past month, after two years of war, global media has increased coverage of the long-overlooked genocide in Sudan which has claimed over 150,000 lives, 40% higher than the 60,000…

Libya is not merely a failed state; it is the engine room of a new global criminal order, and the consequences are already radiating far beyond its borders. What began as the predictable unraveling of a post-revolutionary polity has matured…

As the anniversary of Kristallnacht approaches, we’re reminded of a question that still resists easy answers: When did the Holocaust begin? Identifying an “official” beginning to the Holocaust has long been debated by scholars and…