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It took me decades to make sense of Hanukkah.

Growing up in the former Soviet Union, religion was not part of our existence. It had been stripped away and mostly outlawed. All Jews I knew were secular, although most had a strong Jewish…

How the Bundeswehr Integrates Islam and Judaism into Its Ranks

The issue of Muslim chaplaincy in the German armed forces is not new—but it is finally entering a concrete phase. This debate is all the more significant given the repeatedly…

The cooling of relations between Israel and Egypt since the outbreak of the war in Gaza has ignited the idea of a possible long-term deterioration of the partnership between the two countries. Pressures from Egyptian public opinion, deep…

After the Maccabees won their war against the Syrian-Greeks and the Hellenists, the Hasmonean dynasty they founded eventually collapsed into a corrupt, expansionist regime—a historical warning for certain countries today.

Centuries ago, the…

No mention of the thread between ‘global intifada’ and the murder of Jews.

Intentionally or not, New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani is ignoring the connection between the massacre of 15 Jews at a Chanukah celebration in Sydney,…

“Keep showing us the beauty of your Jewish traditions” our State Rep told us at last Sunday evening’s Hanukkah lighting. Tommy Vitolo then added, “From the perspective of someone who is not Jewish, I hope you’ll share the…

The violence shocked everyone. The story chosen afterward should trouble anyone. Some heroes died, one fit the story.

An antisemitic terror attack in Australia becomes a parable about optics, virtue signaling, and the curious human instinct…

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday as the next special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, an ambassador-level role at the State Department aimed at coordinating U.S. efforts to…

In the months since Hamas’s October 7 massacre, a troubling argument has taken hold in political, academic, and media circles: that the global surge in antisemitism is a reaction to Israel’s military response in Gaza. According to this…

In 1966, the folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel recorded a track called “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night” for their third album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. The track is a sound collage–Simon and Garfunkel’s version of the…