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In his utopian novel Altneuland, Theodor Herzl depicted a fictional election in the future ‘New Society’. Among the candidates was a certain Dr. Geyer, a religious fanatic and racial nationalist described as a ‘demagogue who spouts…

January 26, 2026 will be remembered as the day when Israelis and Jews everywhere breathed a sigh of relief and felt a heavy weight removed from our backs. For more than two years we woke up every morning and lay down every evening asking:…

The Day After: Building Israel’s Future When the Last Hostage Comes Home

January 26th, 2026 will be remembered as a painful and defining day in Israeli history. On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the final hostage from…

The Old Certainties

For decades, investors and insurers spoke of political risk—the possibility that government actions might impair investments or disrupt operations. The concept was well understood, the insurance products mature, the…

Before I address the personal, I want to pause and notice how poignant it is that this Shabbat of Parashat Beshalach—also known as Shabbat Shirah, because of the Song of the Sea and the…

The story of the exodus from Egypt is mentioned twice daily in our prayers. The Rabbis inserted the chapter discussing Tzitzit in the nighttime Shema because of the mention of יציאת מצרים, the exodus from Egypt.

We recite this…

This week’s Torah reading brings us to one of the most dramatic and revealing moments in the entire Biblical narrative.

The Jewish people just left Egypt after centuries of slavery. They’re getting their first taste of freedom, yet…

The World Watches While Crimes Against Humanity Continue by the Islamic Republic Occupying Iran.

“It is better to die.” These are the words of a protester on the streets of Tehran, speaking not as a slogan, but as a lived reality. He…

The “Nihilist Penguin” (sometimes misspelled online as “pinguin”) is one of those rare internet artifacts whose apparent triviality conceals a capacity to evolve into a shared political language. Its contemporary resurgence can be…