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The words of Esther 4:14 have never been more relevant. “And who knows if you have come…

The Mandate of Liberty: From the Exodus to a World Reborn

The Zionist story is, at its heart, a saga of liberation—from the ancient Exodus from Egypt to the modern pursuit of dignity and self-determination. In Judaism, freedom is not merely…

New York City is home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel. That fact alone makes Zohran Mamdani’s election deeply concerning, not because Jews lacked numbers, but because they lacked unity.

Mamdani did not win despite Jewish…

There are days that split history in two. October 7th, 2023 was one of them. A day of unthinkable brutality, shattered homes, broken assumptions, and devastating loss. A day when the question of Jewish safety stopped being philosophical and…

In this episode… Will I know Elijah? Do I know myself? And how will I act in my unknowing?

The Eternal Jew’s Tale
A Pesakh Montage, The Crystal Haggadah
Midrashbase

Khasidic Seder Midrashim, Kotsk, 1838 CE; part 2

…Grunts and hmm’s and…

Dear Israel, Putin is not your friend. Putin was never your friend. He is a Jew-hating thug, living in a particular part of the world with a long history of Jew-hating thugs. And let’s face facts, Putin is a traditionalist.

On October 7,…

On December 26, 2025, Israel took an unexpected, and feared by many, step in becoming the first United Nations member state to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as a Sovereign State. The announcement, made by Prime Minister…

A few months ago, when Greece and Cyprus blocked Turkey’s access to SAFE — the European Union’s €150-billion financial instrument for joint defence procurement — Ankara reacted with fury.

That reaction, although it failed to find…

It was a Polish lawyer, Rafael Lemkin (1900-1959), who coined the term ‘genocide.” It’s a manufactured word from the Greek meaning the killing (cide) of a clan or a tribe (geno). Lemkin, a student of history, was moved by the wholesale…

I am a different person than I was on October 6 — and I am certainly not alone.

I was not in the army during this war. My days of service ended decades ago. I was not even in Israel on October 7. I was in Florida on a weeklong trip when, at…