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The International Monetary Fund’s 2026 inflation forecasts tell a story that transcends economics. Look at the global inflation map and you’re essentially viewing a geopolitical X-ray—revealing which nations enjoy stable governance and…

Diaspora Influence and the Global Architecture of the Conflict

How External Communities Shape Power, Identity, and the Prospects for Equality

Series Preface

Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel examines how law, belonging,…

Meeting Strangers in a Familiar World

I always assumed meeting Israelis abroad would feel like seeing extended family. Instead, it often felt like meeting polite strangers. We shared history, religion, and collective memory, yet something…

New York City has a habit of responding to persistent problems in the same old way – more reports, more announcements, and more symbolic gestures – all while avoiding systemic change and accountability. Jew-hatred has been treated no…

October 7 was the earthquake. And in many ways, October 8 was a different type of tremor. We opened our phones and saw people we trusted explaining, excusing, even cheering Jewish death. Stark fault lines were revealed.

And now New York has a…

Ever paused for a moment to wonder what tefillin are really about?

Not just what they look like, or when we put them on—but what lies inside them. What words are hidden in those small black boxes. Why they are built the way they are at all….

What has unfolded at Adelaide Writers’ Week is not a misunderstanding born of heightened emotions, nor an unfortunate clash of values. It is a systemic failure of judgment, governance and leadership, from top to bottom, and one that has…

Trump has the morality of a Mafia boss. He wants to use American power to acquire territory, resources, and prestige…

Francis Fukuyama is right.

Thinking of Trump as a kind of Mafia boss is actually a pretty helpful way of understanding…

In early 1980, President Jimmy Carter called for a boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics in response to the Soviet Union’s illegal invasion of the sovereign nation of Afghanistan. Carter argued that the United States would not send a team…

53 babies sent to the emergency room, two infants dead — from an unlicensed daycare operating in plain sight.

It is a horrible tragedy. A tragedy compounded by people blaming the families’ lifestyle and politicians blaming their…