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In retrospect, the history of relations between Israel, independent Morocco, and its Jewish community could be framed under the sign of a “catastrophe that did not occur.” No collective disaster comparable to those feared by alarmist…

Somaliland: Recognition, International Law, and the Fear of Precedent

A State in All but Name
For more than three decades, Somaliland has maintained peace, democracy, and functioning institutions in a region otherwise defined by instability….

The conventional wisdom of late in Israel is that no one is talking to anyone from “the other side” (Palestinian Arabs vs Israeli Jews) since the Hamas-Israel War began on October 7^th, 2023. However, through publications and interviews…

For the last decade, my inner life has been furnished by a specific group of women. You probably know them. You might have their books on your nightstand right now.

I’m talking about the thinkers who taught us a new vocabulary for our…

Epigraph

The destinies of today’s pharaohs are already written in the destinies of the pharaohs of the past.

Parashat Shemot is often read as an ancient story about slavery and liberation, about bricks and whips, about a people trapped in a…

Schools – where future generations are shaped through education. The place that develops the next doctors, engineers, lawyers and politicians, or in some nations, the next terrorists. It is a well-documented fact that Palestinian schools…

As someone who grew up in a dysfunctional family under years of abuse as a child, and as someone who left that environment and underwent a profound transformation over many years in a healthy one, I believed I had completely shed the person I…

Hypocrisy today is not limited to one nation or one religion; it stretches across the Arab world, the Islamic world, the Christian world, Europe, and America. Many people claim to defend human rights, but in reality most of them defend…

Let’s buy her a watch

Warning: the following jokes may be interspersed with factual statements.

She confuses the map and the territory. Mathematically, the past, present, and future can be one thing, but it also says that things can go back…