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I can still see myself as a ten-year-old boy watching Walter Cronkite on the evening news and counting the days Americans were held hostage during the Iranian Revolution. At that time, Iran was not just an idea; it came into American homes every…

In my career as rabbi, I have often been challenged by students who were turned off by their respective schools. Their complaint is that they were not taught subjects that inspire. All they learned were Halachic prohibitions that became very…

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL

1834
R. Yehudah Alkalai publishes his first book on
Jewish settlement and political independence in the Land of Israel

R. Yehudah Alkalai, a fervent advocate for Jewish return to the Land of Israel, was one…

History has a brutal sense of irony, and last week it surfaced in a tweet from Kirill Dmitriev, a Kremlin power broker close to Vladimir Putin. Addressing New York politician Zohran Mamdani, Dmitriev delivered a line that should have stopped…

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Since President Trump took office, securing reliable access to critical minerals has been elevated as a core pillar of U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy.  Critical minerals are the essential raw…

Jewish Life Is Facing a Reckoning — and That’s Not a Bad Thing

Now Is A Time of Clarification, Not Collapse

By Rabbi Anchelle Perl

At moments of pressure, societies often mistake exposure for erosion. When things become uncomfortable,…

I lead a Jewish street art movement that took shape in the months following October 7, 2023. Together with a partner and a small team, I printed and distributed more than 400,000 Kidnapped stickers after the hostage poster movement began to…

When January comes around, seasonal depression accelerates into the anxiety of self-improvement and its anticipated failure.

For millions of post-Soviet people around the world, Novi God is a kind of antithesis to the cooperative delusions of…

The January 3, 2026 extraction of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces marks one of the most dramatic American interventions in Latin America in decades. For the first time since the Cold War, a sitting Western Hemisphere leader aligned with…

After living in Israel for years, time stopped meaning the same thing.

January first now passes quietly for me.

I notice it. I acknowledge it. And then I move on.

That reaction would have surprised me years ago. I grew up in France, where…