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Parshat Bo gives a description of the last three of the Ten Plagues. These were locusts, darkness, and the death of the first born sons.

The Alshich explained that each subsequent plague, was designed to elevate the Jewish people, and prepare…

In life, we don’t really get warnings.

No heads up; for the good stuff, or the bad.

Surely, one can look back with a microscope or a fine-tooth comb, and see clear warnings of things to come.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

The thing is, that…

Mossad: The Shadow Guardian of Israel

Few intelligence organizations in the world evoke as much fascination, fear, admiration, and controversy as the Mossad. Officially known as HaMossad leModi’in uleTafkidim Meyuhadim , “The Institute…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently announced that the government’s commission of inquiry into the events of October 7, 2023 would examine not only the events of that day and who is responsible for the failures, but also earlier…

The Israeli government just announced that it is considering withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change and other international environmental bodies — and this a mere week after its Environmental Ministry warned of rising sea…

Beyond the announcement of a Strategic Defence Partnership, steps to deepen tech cooperation were the key outcomes of the UAE President’s visit to New Delhi.

KASHISH PARPIANI

This week, at the invitation of India’s Prime Minister Narendra…

Epilogue: Acknowledgments, Reflections, and A Thematic Index of the Series

Series Preface

Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel has been an attempt to explore, with humility and care, how law, belonging, dignity, justice,…

A religious guy opens the trunk of his car and chocolate coins spill out onto the street. Dozens of them. Silver and gold.

Jackpot!

What looks more antisemitic than a black-hatted Jew spilling money from his car? Except Chanukah was weeks…

Last night I sat next to my sister
in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall,
close to where we once sat as little…

The title at first might provoke a reaction. Someone will see it and mutter, “Ah, so he’s writing for Israel.” Another will snarl, “He’s denying Palestine itself.” Neither is true. What follows is not a partisan catechism but a…