It may not be shocking, given his history, but it is surprising how quickly New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, launched his anti-Jewish, anti-Israel — I struggled whether to include “antisemitic” — agenda. Within 24 hours after being…
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Mamdani: It Did Not Take Long
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The Blogs: Weaving the Ties Between India and Israel | Suzy Donskoy
Textiles are among humanity’s oldest industries. Few sectors carry such a deep historical legacy—and few remain as strategically relevant today as they were in antiquity.
Graphic by author Like many Jewish families who arrived from…
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The Blogs: China’s Crimes Against Humanity — and Canada’s Moral Collapse | Shabnam Assadollahi
This short report documents the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) crimes against humanity and examines Canada’s political capitulation to Beijing. It argues that Canada’s current Liberal leadership has traded sovereignty, security, and…
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The Blogs: Pharaoh, Iran and the battle for human dignity | Mijal Bitton
This morning, like every morning for the past two weeks, the first thing I did upon waking was search for news of Iran. Have the protests continued? Will they get the help they so desperately need?
I was sure I would wake up to news of…
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The Blogs: Is Halting Executions in Iran Good Enough? | Jonathan Feldstein
Berlin Germany, May 18, 2024: Event protesting the execution of young people in Iran and supporting the people and the Iranian uprising. (Shutterstock) On January 16, 1979, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was forced to flee Iran along with…
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The Blogs: AI Is Reshaping Academia — and Forcing a Rethink of the University Mode | Rafi Glick
Image:78 years since the first transistor was developed at Bell Labs — a breakthrough that laid the foundation for modern computing and AI. Photo courtesy of AT&T Archives. AI Is Reshaping Academia — and Forcing a Rethink of the…
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The Blogs: It is time to take responsibility for our image rather than blame everybody else | Nadav Tamir
Last Friday, when I read Ben-Dror Yemini’s article in Yedioth Ahronoth, “The Covenant of the Bullies,” I felt a sense of déjà vu. He has been peddling the same narrative for years, blaming the entire world for Israel’s inadequate…
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The Blogs: From Mouth to God’s ‘Ears’ | Rivka Herzfeld
We all know that the Rambam, Maimonides (March 30, 1138-December 12, 1204) established 13 things that we proclaim after we daven (pray) every morning.
The third of those things is the following:
אֲנִי מַאֲמִין…
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Yajuj-Majuj vs. Hope, Prayer and Faith
Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a small fraction standing by the end of the century unless global warming is curbed. But Planet Earth’s last 3 years were its hottest on record. About 39% of…
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The Blogs: How Torah Teaches Us to Kill an Impulse | Matthew Robin
There is a moment in Red Dead Redemption 2 that is easy to miss and difficult to forget.
John Marston is trying — awkwardly, imperfectly — to live an honest life. His past is catching up with him. Trouble finds him. He defends himself and…
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