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The 515-page 2025 exceptional book “Accepting and Excepting: On Pluralism and Chosenness out of the Sources of Judaism” is by Raphael Jospe, one of the most respected contemporary voices in Jewish philosophy. Jospe gives readers very…

The predictable antizionist mantra claims “antizionism is not antisemitism.” The mantra is right: antizionism is not classical antisemitism. But it misses the point: antizionism is itself a powerful form of Jew Hatred. It is different in…

Over a period of two years on a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship in Israel, I befriended engineers working at local and global startups in Haifa, attended an Arab Christian wedding in Nazareth, drank wine in the Upper Galilee with an Iraqi…

While it is still early to assess how the annual UN climate conference COP30, which opens tomorrow in Belém, Brazil – a location whose choice testifies on  the conference’s emphases as biodiversity, and the importance of preserving the…

Nearly a year into the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the illusion of calm along the northern border is quickly fading. Beneath the surface of supposed stability, Hezbollah has been quietly rebuilding its war machine….

“The great souls feel in the depths of their being their connection to all existence, to all creatures and especially to all humankind…they announce  the lights of new life…The Godly song is awake in the souls of the great…

Councilman Mamdani,

As an Israeli, I’m disgusted by your words and behavior –
as a New Yorker, I’m appealing to your conscience.

I was raised in New York, as were my parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. We’ve seen mayors come…

B”H

11/9/2025

18 Heshvan 5786

What is real Strength?

Written by Tzedeck

Tzedeck is the authors Pseudonym

To all of those going through a hard time right…

Israel’s war in Gaza was not only against Hamas, but also an ideological war within Israel itself, a tug-of-war between two Israels. One Israel wants to build, to expand, secure, and restore what it believes is divinely and historically its…

Full first day in Porto. Tired, we joined an afternoon walking tour. Dropped out early. But joined long enough to identify that couple, close to our age, American Jews from Scottsdale. She, the daughter of German Jewish Shoah survivors. She…