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A Case Study in Loaded Questions

A private correspondent recently posed two questions so skillfully loaded with distortion that, left unchallenged before an uninformed audience, they could persuade thousands to accept a genocidal narrative…

As the secular year ends and New Year’s looms, it is traditional to make resolutions for the coming year. One resolution that will add meaning in 2026 is learning how to bake challah (or making it more often) for Shabbat and holidays. This…

Why boundaries matter morally and practically for the Jewish People

While Sydney’s Jews bury their dead, I’ve noticed an increasing number of photos of Jews in Europe and America holding Hanukkah candle lightings in support of Palestine….

“If real is what you can feel, smell, taste, and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.” -Morpheus, The Matrix

Do you ever taste sound? Hear a view? Smell a touch? See a scent? These combinations seem…

This piece grew organically out of a Talmudic-style back-and-forth with my teacher and friend Shaul Magid, following my recent Times of Israel essay responding to his Substack series on the crisis and “pivot” of liberal Zionism. What…

President Donald Trump said Congress “is becoming antisemitic” and warned about what he said was the fading influence of the “Jewish lobby” and “Israeli lobby” in an address to his Jewish supporters at a White…

If 2024 was defined by trauma and polarization, 2025 became the year the U.S.–Israel relationship quietly recalibrated.

The alliance did not fracture, but it was tested in ways few previous chapters can compare to. Political tension,…

On the evening of September 11, Hodaya Fadida, 26, who was three months pregnant, was shot to death outside her home in the Gilo neighborhood of Jerusalem by her ex-husband, Matan Fadida. He used a licensed firearm he held through his work as…

For eight nights, we celebrate the victory of a ragtag band of rebels defeating the mighty Greek empire. But that’s just one part of the story. The harder truth is this: the Maccabees weren’t just fighting soldiers. They were fighting…