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What happens when reality tells you something you cannot bear to accept? The Torah gives us two striking examples — Jacob and Korach — both refusing to accept reality, but for very different reasons and with very different outcomes.

If…

Hey everyone. I’m Noam Weissman. And this is Unpacking Israeli History, the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense, historically fascinating and often misunderstood events and stories linked to Israeli history. If…

This was the closest I’ve ever gotten to seeing my family alive…

My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. In 1938, my grandfather fled Czechoslovakia during Hitler’s rise to power, leaving behind his parents, sisters, and younger…

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Service Now, the California based software company that supplies a cloud computing platform for the creation and management of automated business workflows, yesterday entered into an agreement to acquire the Israeli cyber company Armis for…

The recent article “The War Both Morocco and Algeria Fear to Win” presents a provocative argument: that the Polisario Front survives because both Morocco and Algeria need the conflict to justify their political systems.

As a Sahrawi who…

Regimes do not change in a single day. They erode—clause by clause, law by law—until the public grows accustomed to it. The disaster of October 7 was only the climax of a long process of rule by fear, incitement, and evasion of…

With a minimally invasive technology that enables medical teams to prevent brain hemorrhages simply and safely in real time, LuSeed Vascular is revolutionizing the neurovascular space with a novel treatment for brain aneurysms.

Hundreds of…

Who needs Pallywood with Jewish news like that?

Everyone, on the left, the right, and the center, is going to hate parts of this blog post, but sometimes the whole truth must be stated clearly.

In Israel, court procedures against the…

It’s not certain Netflix wants you to think of it as a gaming company. Certainly not as a competitor to PlayStation or Xbox. But its decision to launch an official FIFA soccer game as part of the subscription, on the TV screen, without a…

Why Greek Names Followed Meaning — and How Palestina Fits the Pattern

One of the quiet assumptions behind modern debates about Palestine is that ancient names were rigid, literal, and politically weaponized from birth. This assumption is…