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The prophet Yeshaya on the massacre in Iran

As Jews and human beings, we have all been terribly disturbed by the news coming out of Iran. While not all the details are fully clear, it seems that at the beginning of the month, in a two day…

We all face the world through language, habits, and inherited ways of making sense. Long before we reason, we interpret. We learn what counts as relevant, what can be ignored, what belongs inside a conversation and what remains outside…

The Iranian crisis confronts Beijing and Moscow with a dilemma of the revisionist powers: to take advantage of a partner that blocks the West, without paying the price of an overt show of solidarity at a time when pressure is rising. Iran is…

Kobani, the Syrian Kurdish city that became known worldwide as the “graveyard of ISIS”, is again under siege. Electricity, water, fuel, food and internet access have been cut. Kurdish children have died of hypothermia. The UN Refugee…

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Yud Shevat 5786 – January 28, 2026

In 1992, on Yud Shevat, then Transportation Minister Moshe Katzav visited the Lubavitcher Rebbe by Sunday Dollars.

After showering Katzav with special blessings, the Rebbe went on to raise “the…

Aryeh Tuchman, a veteran antisemitism researcher who spent nearly two decades at the Anti-Defamation League, is joining the Nexus Project, a rival watchdog, to lead a new center devoted to researching antisemitism.

The…

Condemning the “Logic of Erasure” and the Necessity of a Politics of Memory for Occupied Kurdistan

27 January is not merely a date on the calendar; it is an ethical criterion and a political test. A day on which the world remembers how,…

January 8^th and 9^th have been some of the bloodiest days in modern Iranian history and the history of the Iranian theocracy’s rule in particular. Thousands of Iranian protesters have been killed by the regime’s forces and proxies. The…

The Syrian Democratic Forces did not lose because they were weak. They lost because they were honest about what they were—and the system around them was not. The SDF built order where there was none, defeated the most lethal jihadist…

At this point in the story of the Exodus, the main focus has been on Pharaoh and his unwavering resolve not to release the Hebrews, the Jewish people, from his grasp. We open as he send them out of his land, but the story isn’t over. The…