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On Sunday, as I ran a new route close to my house, I listened to Haviv Rettig Gur’s Passover Podcast. He discusses with Rabbi David Stav the relativity of the story of the Israelites’ experience in Egypt, and the consequent exodus as…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez reportedly told members of the Democratic Socialists of America on Tuesday night that she would oppose all U.S. aid to Israel, including for defensive weapons.

The comments marked a reversal…

Why the world’s most plurally constituted civilization has a moral and strategic obligation to interrupt the Middle East’s amnesia, and why its silence is a form of complicity.

The debate this essay seeks to provoke is not about India’s…

Last night, in a prerecorded message, Benjamin Netanyahu compared the war against Iran, Hizballah, Hamas, and the Houthis to the ten plagues visited against Egypt in the Bible. In this analogy, Netanyahu compares Israel’s enemies to Egypt…

Every year at Passover, Jews retell the story of the ten plagues — forces that spread, disrupt, and reshape reality itself.

The defining feature of a plague is not only its severity, but its ability to move, multiply, and transform the…

This year, many Israelis find themselves in an unfamiliar and unsettling reality. Travel is restricted. Flights are limited or unavailable. The option of “getting away” for Pesach—so common in recent years—has suddenly disappeared….

In my previous article on this blog, I argued that the 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity are the only variable that determines who wins this war. Not the generals killed. Not the bases destroyed. Not the Strait of Hormuz. Not…

Although, it’s been quite clear for a long time who is running the country, the past days have emphasized it to the extreme.

The first phone call I received yesterday morning was a robocall by the most vile criminal in this government,…

Last week I wrote for TOI partner paper, The Jewish News. The article was a rare moment of personal vulnerability, reflecting on the genuinely sad reality of how normalised terrorism, war, and antisemitism have become for my young children….

At the end of a recent appointment at Ichilov, after an EMG for a lumbar issue at L4–L5, I asked a straightforward question: What can be done?

The answer I received was equally direct:
“Well, in two years you’ll be 80.”

The…