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From Kiryat Gat to Cairo via Washington

Is Gaza’s Reconstruction About to Begin?

Over recent weeks, a sequence of diplomatic steps has unfolded that suggests the transition from negotiations to reconstruction in Gaza may have already begun….

The saga of Germans who despised the Nazi regime and struggled against it can be inspirational. Rhonda Lauritzen delves into that topic in A Child In Berlin (Post Hill Press). She does so through the lives of one German woman, Heidi Posnien,…

Everyone has a special place, and mine is Hebron. It is where I have spent the last approximately 50 years of my life, which represents a big chunk of my 78 years.

Hebron is, first of all, the Cave of the Patriarchs. This monument was built…

In 2021, my husband, son, and I left the chaos of Los Angeles for the peaceful hills of Tuscany. Settling in Florence with our eight-year-old son felt like a dream. But that dream began to unravel on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched its…

Let me add my two cents to the ongoing controversy over whether or not rabbis should speak out publicly, even from their pulpits, when a candidate for political office holds positions that could threaten the security of the Jewish…

Imagine the grandest, most universal celebration the world has ever seen—a concert of ultimate praise broadcast live from Jerusalem, featuring every nation and every soul. It’s not just a beautiful dream; it’s the climactic vision…

Every wave of immigration to Israel inevitably brings a clash between two worlds: people’s preconceived notions of the country and the complex reality they find upon arrival. For many, this encounter becomes a personal ideological test….

Once upon a time, giant animals walked the earth: sloths as tall as a building, elephants that make today’s look like children, woolly rhinoceroses that towered over the puny humans. Once there were other species of humans too.

Most of the large…

How religion, resentment, and identity politics are eroding the foundations of the state

The Gaza war has transformed Israeli society in ways no previous war has done.

For most of its history, Israel imagined itself as a fortress surrounded…

October 25, 2025

The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries
2267 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Democrat Leader Jeffries:

Do you hear that rattling sound? That is the sound of former mayor Ed Koch turning uncontrollably in his…