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Parshat Va’era begins with a conversation between Moshe Rabbeinu and Hashem, where Moshe needed assurances as to how the redemption from Egypt was to transpire.

He understood that the Hashem can act with His attribute of mercy, known as…

This column is part of a series exploring whether Gaza can be rebuilt in a way that produces lasting stability rather than recurring war. Inspired by Jonathan Feldstein’s provocative question—“Is Jesus the solution for Gaza?”—the…

By Dr. David Leffler

The Limits of Conventional Peacebuilding

For decades, Israel has faced persistent intrastate and interstate violence, including regional conflicts, cross-border hostilities, terrorism, civil…

In giving the keynote address to the recent Biennial National Assembly of the American Zionist Movement (AZM), Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove called for a “new Zionism.” His core issue: to enhance “an appreciation for our internal [Zionist]…

President Trump’s aggressive tariffs on Chinese goods, escalated since his January 2025 inauguration, aimed to slash America’s trade deficit and revive U.S. manufacturing. Yet China’s 2025 trade surplus rocketed to $1.2 trillion—the…

Parashat Va’era, the second Torah portion of the book of Exodus, introduces us to the plagues. And when we hear about the plagues, we often imagine them as reactive eruptions of divine power. But the Torah insists that they are not…

In Iran today, ordinary people and students are risking their lives for freedom.

They chant against the regime despite the certainty of arrest. Protesters are beaten, imprisoned, tortured, and executed for demanding the most basic human…

Before the war, Mila Street in Warsaw, Poland was almost entirely Jewish. According to Edna’s brother Yakov, ninety-nine percent of the residents were Jews; only the servants and housekeepers were Polish. The Szureks lived at number 18,…

On December 26, 2025, a 34-year diplomatic silence was shattered not by the sound of gunfire, a noise far too common in the fractured Horn of Africa, but by the resonant…

As Modern Orthodoxy and Open Orthodoxy clash over authority, the traditional centres of Torah life in Brooklyn and Yerushalayim watch with quiet scepticism and amusement.

Seeing a War From the Outside

I write this as a woman who lives…