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A year ago, President Trump proposed a Gaza migration plan: the relocation of Gaza’s population to other countries, or their reabsorption into the broader Arab world. The plan was greeted with moral outrage, diplomatic horror, and…

It is becoming increasingly clear that 2026 is taking shape as the year of new alliances in the Middle East, built upon the fragmentation/and in some cases the collapse/of alliances that had stood for decades.

Few could have anticipated that…

When President Trump unveiled the Board of Peace, it was framed as a historic innovation: a bold new mechanism to stabilize Gaza and, more broadly, to reimagine how the international community manages conflict. The rhetoric was sweeping, even…

Why perspective — not nostalgia — is the quiet advantage of living through history as it unfolds

I am 77 years old, and I have lived through more revolutions than I ever expected — not on battlefields, but in living rooms, offices,…

On January 8, in conjunction with Hebrew Language Day, the Academy of the Hebrew Language announced the word chosen by the Israeli public to best capture the spirit of the past year. The word was הַבַּיְתָה…

Certain Polish nationalists were prepared to reach an accommodation with Nazi Germany, despite its record of atrocities in Poland. As might be recalled, six million Polish citizens, including three million Jews, perished during the six-year…

When Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro wrote in his new memoir that Kamala Harris’ vice-presidential vetting team asked whether he had ever been a “double agent” for Israel, many Jewish leaders heard something painfully…

My father’s Zionism was leaping into the cold waters of an ancient pool on a hot summer day. He would locate some spring, cistern, or water hole in a remote corner of Israel, would strip down to his undergarments and, yelping Tarzan-like,…

I know I am part Cochini, but I did not grow up with Cochini food.

This is not something I noticed as a child, or even as a young adult. I grew up surrounded by Jewish food – Baghdadi Indian food, to be precise – dishes that arrived at…