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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…

Somaliland’s Long-Awaited Recognition

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL

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Clash of Traditions:
Nachmanides and the Tosafists in Late 13th-Century Acre

In the decades preceding the fall of the Crusader Kingdom in 1291, the port city of Acre became a unique microcosm of the…

Those of you who are extremely careful readers of my columns may have noticed some small changes that were recently made to my biographical blurb appearing at the bottom of the page. No, I’m not referring to the Rockower award addition….

Closing the Red Sea Gap: Somaliland–Israel Alliance and the Bab el-Mandeb Corridor

Mustafe Jambir

The Bab el-Mandeb corridor, connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, has become one of the most contested maritime chokepoints in the…

In January 2026, President Trump escalated demands to acquire Greenland from Denmark, threatening tariffs against eight European nations and refusing to rule out military force. The crisis intensified following Trump’s seizure of Venezuelan…

Advocacy begins when you need to speak up for a cause, a person, or yourself. Advocacy allows for resiliency. You speak up . . . you bounce back. You stay silent . . . you sink.

As far back as I can remember, as a young child, a child raised…