Announced at the C5+1 summit personally hosted in Washington by President Donald Trump, Kazakhstan’s decision to join the Abraham Accords expands the framework beyond its origins as a series of Middle Eastern normalization agreements with…
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As Kazakhstan Joins the Abraham Accords, Jewish Americans Should Engage
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Parshas Vayeitzei – Take Me Home, Country Road
This week’s parsha opens with Yaakov Avinu, a rock, and some angels: וַיִּפְגַּ֨ע בַּמָּק֜וֹם וַיָּ֤לֶן שָׁם֙ כִּי־בָ֣א הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ וַיִּקַּח֙ מֵאַבְנֵ֣י…
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I Did Not Know (Vayeitzei)
In Vayeitzei, we encounter one of the most spectacular images in the entire Torah – perhaps in all of human imagination. Jacob dreams of a ladder that stretches from earth to heaven, angels ascending and descending upon it. Rabbi Abraham Joshua…
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Israel and America: The Odd Couple That Still Makes Sense
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (center) with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (L) “Israel must exist and has the right to exist..as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., By Dr. Shmuel Legesse: Upcoming Author…
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Trump Slams the Brotherhood Machine
President Trump just did what Washington’s professional appeasers dodged for decades: he moved to ban the Muslim Brotherhood—an extremist factory dressed up as a political movement. Arab governments understood this years ago. Egypt, the UAE,…
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Haftarat Parshat Vayetze: Reading and Imagining Yaakov Avinu
Haftarat Vayetze is unique in the curious divergence between how Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews read it, with each reading a different section of the prophecy. Sephardic communities read from Hoshea 11:7 until 12:12, whereas Ashkenazim begin the…
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Global Orchestration of anti-Israel Mobilisation
From October 7, 2023, Back to the Red/Green Alliance If the Islamic Republic of Iran is the model of the red/green alliance fallout, the West has a mountain to climb if it is to survive. It cannot begin to climb that mountain if it doesn’t…
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Is success our ruin?
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the election for Mayor was a devastating blow to the Jewish community of New York City. Yet it is in part our success through the years that sowed the seeds that made his victory possible. The Jewish community…
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John Cleese, That’s No Excuse
John Cleese recently canceled his upcoming Israel performances despite the sold-out crowds that awaited him. If it had come to pass, this would not have been his first tour of Israel. Cleese’s most recent visit was just prior to COVID and I,…
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Pass the Gravy, Not the Grudges: Finding Unity in Disagreement on Thanksgiving
We often look at Thanksgiving as a beautifully secular spectacle: a day of strategic elastic-waistband deployment, a table groaning under the weight of delicious food, and the thrilling-yet-terrifying family dynamics that inevitably surface….
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