Something has broken in me. Not all at once, but decisively. A trust I once carried without thinking has collapsed, and in its place is a clarity I did not ask for and cannot unsee. I feel it as a kind of reckoning. With people I believed…
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The Blogs: Understanding Israel Begins With Being There | Sabine Sterk
You cannot dismantle hatred with slogans. You cannot undo years of indoctrination with shouting matches on social media. And you certainly cannot replace lived reality with hashtags. If there is one lesson I have learned over the years, it is…
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The Blogs: Let My People Go — Parsha Bo and the World’s Moral Blindness | Jeffrey Levine
We live in a world flooded with information, yet increasingly unable to see right from wrong. The ancient story of the Exodus from Egypt, told in this week’s Parsha Bo, offers a striking lens on moral blindness, power, and the cost of…
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The Blogs: Arrogance of Afflicting Nations | Kenneth Cohen
A question is asked regarding the Egyptian people. If it was predestined that the Jewish people were meant to be slaves, why were they punished so severely?
Avraham Avinu was already told that his children would be strangers in a strange land….Continue Reading
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The Blogs: Opening the Door to Haunting Loss and Memory: Teaching the Courage to Reach Out | Stephen Stern
Virginia Evans’ novel The Correspondent opened me to something deeply human and generous, helping me unlock a door I had kept closed for over two decades. In its pages, I found a way to face the deaths of my sister and a close friend, and…
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The Blogs: Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel — Part XXXII | Ed Gaskin
Youth, Identity, and the Future Moral Imagination
How the Next Generation Will Shape the Possibilities of Equality
Series Preface
Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel examines how law, belonging, dignity, and justice shape…
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The Blogs: Copious Scholarship Debunks Shin Bet’s Claim About Death Penalty’s “Deterrence” | Michael Zoosman
In an attempt to advocate for the current death penalty bill before the Knesset, proponents invited a representative of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) to tell lawmakers that it now supports the bill in principle, marking a shift from…
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The Blogs: Regime change in Iran to reshape power balance | Pitan Daslani
Regime change in Iran is no longer a matter of if; it is a historical predetermination the Iranians have been paying for with their blood for 47 years. And as they deserve it for a better future, President Donald Trump is the right change…
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The Blogs: From Principles to Practice: Israel’s Blended Finance Moment | Glenn Yago
The Israel Forum for Impact Investment (IFIE) deserves credit for advancing the conversation on blended finance in Israel in their recent report on Blended Finance in Israel.Their report provides a valuable foundation—explaining what…
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The Blogs: Recognizing Somaliland would be in Australia’s Interest | Mohamed Osman
I respectfully urge the Government of Australia 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…
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