Dedicated to Meyer Sluyser, who, after The War, wrote so many nostalgic books about Amsterdam’s Jewish life that was all but exterminated. Today, I suddenly thought of the Dutch military police at Amsterdam airport who protect passengers who fly…
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Thinking of the outstanding Dutch Gentiles
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee advances Yehuda Kaploun as antisemitism envoy, with some dissent
Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun moved a step closer to becoming the next U.S. antisemitism envoy on Wednesday, as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to advance his nomination in a divided 14-8 tally that reflected the…
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Vayishlach: The Roadmap
There are many steps as we work our way to becoming Tzaddikim. Step one is goal setting. Much like coming up with a concept for a business, our goals cannot be defined by a certain amount of clients or cash in the bank; it has…
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New Model of Urbanization Upends Paradigm of Mayan Collapse
What happened to the great cities of the Mayans? The usual thinking is that their civilization and cities were brought down by protracted drought, or some Malthusian combination of horrors involving overpopulation, climate change and…
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Why Israelis should visit a European Christmas market this year
Spoiler: It's not for the shopping. When Israelis and Jews share casual space with cosmopolitan Europeans, they create new breathing space together
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The double embrace of Kaddish
The mourner's prayer grabbed me from Day 1, giving much-needed focus to my time and thoughts – and the community that made it possible carried me through
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To pardon Netanyahu is to surrender Israel to Trump
There is a peculiar moment in the life of every democracy when the language of national healing begins to sound suspiciously more like the language of convenience, and Israel has certainly reached it. Netanyahu’s plea for a presidential pardon…
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A Little Off The Top
The Jerusalem Post recently published an article about a “barber-led” circumcision gone wrong. It’s a horrifying tale of how an untrained individual in India amputated a toddler’s genitalia, only to end with the medical achievement of its…
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How to Preserve Israel’s QME
How to Preserve Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge On Tuesday, November 18th President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reached an agreement in principle which deepened the US-Saudi defense partnership. The agreement made Saudi…
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Canada’s “Anti-Racism” Narrative: A Mirror No One Wants to Look Into
Let’s begin with one real story from Ottawa — a story that exposes how hollow, selective, and politically manufactured “anti‑racism” rhetoric has become. An Iranian-Canadian Christian woman working as a school liaison officer was…
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