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Buck up guys, we’re half-way there! That is, at least, according to Major General Zamir. Three weeks into the war, a siren failed and dozens were seriously injured. A few dead. It’s well within the bounds the war…

Pity the poor prayer of Tachanun—it’s the Rodney Dangerfield of our liturgy: it gets no respect.

Congregants smile when there’s a bris in the community, or when it’s Tu B’Av or Shushan Purim—and the service is unexpectedly…

As AI becomes more capable, leaders are asking what it will replace. The better question may be what it never should. In the end, leadership is defined by the decisions only humans can make.

One of the questions I’ve been asked most often…

For years, the Islamic Republic of Iran was treated as though it were a regional problem: dangerous, repressive, disruptive, but somehow containable. That illusion no longer survives contact with reality.

Iran is not merely a troublesome…

There’s something I’ve noticed over the years that’s hard to ignore. Twenty years ago, I visited the places in Europe where six million of my people were murdered. Every corner, every town, seemed to carry a monument, a memorial, a…

(Jewish Progressives: “This Way to the Egress”)

From afar here in Israel, I’m watching and lamenting the demise of the Jewish-Progressive alliance in America.

Various Jewish organizations welcome and even advocate for proponents of…

By any measure, the senior US Senator from the State of Vermont, has become one of the most prominent American critics of Israel. Since the Hamas and Hezbollah wars of the past decade, his voice has carried growing weight within the…

Both-sides-ism in the Israel context is not a call for balance; it is a rhetorical laundering mechanism that turns terrorism into a ‘perspective,’ recasts victims as participants, and weaponizes moral equivalence to restrain Israel while…

The debate in the West over military intervention in Iran is often reduced to a seemingly simple question: Is it permitted under international law? The traditional interpretation of the United Nations Charter suggests that the use of force is…

This past Shabbat, on a Shabbaton, we were divided into small circles, each group given a different aspect of the Beit HaMikdash to discuss.

Our group was given the Shechina—and how we understand it, and how we imagine it will be…