Like most people, I sometimes ask myself what might have been: if only I had decided differently, had I only acted otherwise. Most of these thoughts concern my personal life, but I also look back on a national question: what would the country…
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The Blogs: I couldn’t get a seat at a Tel Aviv Restaurant. I loved it | Elad Israeli
Five years ago, I left Israel for the United States. My career had brought me to Washington, D.C., but soon after my arrival, I met my wife. Our choice to build a family together was also my choice to make America my permanent home. Still…
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The Blogs: South Africa’s Path to Failed State Status | Grant Arthur Gochin
As a Zionist Jew who has dedicated my life to serving Africa, I see a chilling pattern in the historical map that few dare acknowledge. In 1973, amid Arab petrodollar influence and Soviet pressure following the Yom Kippur War, thirty African…
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The Blogs: Weather Walls and Geopolitical Fault Lines: What Disney’s Zootopia 2 Tells Us | Vincent James Hooper
Disney’s Zootopia 2 has crossed the billion-dollar mark, making it an unlikely vessel for geopolitical commentary. Beneath the animation lies a sophisticated meditation on themes resonating around the globe: the architecture of coexistence,…
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The Blogs: When AI Rewrites History: A Global Threat to Truth | Sabine Sterk
In every conflict, truth is fragile. In the age of artificial intelligence, history itself is under threat.
The war in Gaza has exposed something far more dangerous than misinformation or biased reporting: the rise of AI-generated images…
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The Blogs: Good Intentions | Kenneth Cohen
We learn from the Torah that Yosef married Osnat, the daughter of Potifar. She bore him two sons, Efraim and Menashe before the seven bad years.
The Alshich brings a story related to the birth of the great Amora, Shmuel. He founded the…
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The Blogs: RIP… The Lincoln Penny | Michael Feldstein
It wasn’t a banner headline. In fact, chances are you may have skimmed right past it when the news first appeared.
On November 12, 2025, the very last penny was minted at the Philadelphia Mint, bringing an end to production of the familiar…
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Parshas VaYigash – All Good Things…
The parsha begins with Yehudah laying out why he can’t just give up Binyomin and leave. He’s made a powerful promise to his father that he can’t shake. It’s so powerful that the text leaves us much to read in between, so we’ll look…
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The Blogs: When Australia Made Jewish Belonging Public | Austin Reid Albanese
In October 1845, the Hebrew Congregation of Sydney did something both profoundly ordinary and quietly radical at the time. It petitioned the colonial government.
The request was measured. The language was civic. For fourteen years, the…
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The Blogs: Don’t Minns Your Words, Premier | Shannon Cummings
Chris Minns received a standing ovation at the Bondi memorial last night. It was a moment of solemnity and shared grief. In such moments, applause is not performance. It is release.
But it is worth asking, what, precisely, was being…
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