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I do not argue with anyone who criticizes U.S. president Donald Trump. In fact, pretty much anything anyone has said to me about him I would not dispute. I don’t care about any of that. My litmus test for a U.S. president has always been…

When the Ayatollahs dictatorship feels weak, it arrests the quiet. And that is what they did last week against 32 Bahai individuals last week.

That’s the pattern. A Bahai family is dragged from its home, the word “Israel” is hissed like…

I once read a historian say that empires never march in with a smile — they slip in on a hand extended in friendship. There’s a reason that insight has traveled through centuries: it is, time and again, the quiet force in great…

Once upon a time, in a faraway land known as Dorem Afrika, a little boy was born into a family of refugees from Plotnik in Eastern Poland. Actually ‘Moisie’ was only one of seven names he carried with him. Another was Malcolm, (to fool…

In the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks, American Jewry has been thrust into an “eighth front” of the Israel-Hamas war: the fight for truth amid a torrent of lies. Members of our community have faced unprecedented vitriol online, on university…

God of Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob.

God of Israel.

I stand before You

as a man bound to his people.

From You comes truth—

steady and enduring.

This truth walks through time

and lives in every generation.

Your word is alive.

It waits its…

For years, Pakistan’s human-rights crisis was seen as a domestic problem. That is no longer the case.

Today, critics of the Pakistani state are being targeted far beyond the country’s borders — in Europe, North America, and Africa….

The Jewish Curry Culture Club

This blog begins from a simple premise: food is not lifestyle content. It is material culture, and it carries historical evidence. What is divined symbolically in coffee grounds can be read concretely in diaspora…