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I am of an age, and a generation, that had little to no personal experience of antisemitism. Like so many American Jews, I am the descendent of grandparents who came to the United States from Eastern Europe in the early years of the 20th…

Antisemitism is surging worldwide, and enormous effort is being invested in combating it through facts, rebuttals, and counter-narratives. These efforts are well intentioned—but they miss the point.

Rabbi Tal…

It has become common to view Shabbat on a number of levels. Yet, no matter how you do so, one question remains uncomfortable: the Talmud states that the non-Jew who observes Shabbat deserves death. This is by no means to say that they are…

The most effective propaganda today doesn’t argue. It exhausts.

One of the most common phrases heard in discussions about Israel and Gaza is: “It’s complicated.” That is true. But complexity is not the same as confusion – and…

The ANC likes to frame its support for Hamas and Palestinian militant groups as a natural extension of its own liberation struggle.

That comparison is not just wrong…

It is morally bankrupt!

Umkhonto we…

Cargo planes don’t lie.
Belarusian Il-76 aircraft continue to land in Tehran, quietly unloading Russian and Chinese weapons, crowd-control systems, surveillance tools, and security equipment for the Islamic Republic’s internal forces….

For over two years now, tens of thousands of families have been living in an ongoing state of emergency. They have been living through a grueling reality – another tzav, another absence, another birthday missed, another business barely…

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017), the Polish Jewish sociologist and philosopher, lived through the hardest of times. He experienced a glimpse of the Holocaust in Poland before fleeing to the Soviet Union. And, as communist in the postwar People’s…

If you can annihilate the State of Israel or kill all the Jews, you can make God a liar. Through the millennia of captivity, exile, dispersion, pogroms, Inquisitions, the Shoah, and October 7th, a spiritual agenda is at work. Yet the agents…

The drama of younger and older brothers which haunts the book of Bereishit from Cain and Abel onwards reaches a strange climax in the story of Joseph’s children. Jacob/Israel is nearing the end of his life. Joseph visits him, bringing with…