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Silent Allies, Loud Narratives

Across the Netherlands, hundreds of thousands marched last year under the banner of the “Red Line” demonstrations for Palestinians. Yet when Kurds, Druze, or Yazidis cry out for support, they stand almost…

Replacement theology is a theological mind virus.

It hijacks Scripture and repurposes it for its own predetermined theological agenda. It subverts or denies some of Scripture’s most dominant themes and most emphatic covenant promises –…

Next week, the “International Conference on Combating Antisemitism” will convene in Jerusalem for the second consecutive year to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day—under the auspices of the so-called Minister of Diaspora…

At the last World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Prof. Yuval Noah Harari delivered an electrifying speech on AI. “No matter from which country you come, your country will soon face a severe identity crisis and also an immigration…

Every year on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are asked—explicitly and implicitly—to do something both simple and immense: to remember. Many share an image online that reads “#We Remember.” Two words meant to hold history,…

If there is one theme permeating throughout Purim, it is achdut (unity). Think about it: you cannot fulfill the mitzvah of mishloach manot (sending yummy foods to friends) or matanot l’evyonim (giving money to the poor) without giving them…

Dear readers, for the third time, and perhaps even more, I repeat this: as I have mentioned in previous articles, if you have not noticed the publishing platform of this piece, be aware that it was published in Times of Israel, and an…

Tu Bishvat Reflections on Scarcity, Food Inflation, and Responsibility

Tu Bishvat, the New Year for Trees, is rooted in Jewish law in the Mishnah (Rosh Hashanah 1:1), which establishes the fifteenth of Shevat as the point from which the…

I respectfully urge the Government of France to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state within its 1960 borders.

The Republic of Somaliland is in the Horn of Africa, along the southern coast of the…

In the course of three hours on a single morning—October 7, 2023—251 living hostages and bodies were abducted from Israel and dragged into Gaza.
Today, 843 days later, the last body was brought home.

Staff Sergeant Major Ran Gvili, a hero…