Many New Yorkers are thinking far beyond the five boroughs as they cast their votes in an election some see as a referendum on the Middle East.
Jewish and Muslim New Yorkers — two populations of about the same size, both nearing 1 million…
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The Blogs: ‘I authorized it’: Yitzhak Rabin’s ethos of accountability | David Makovsky
Thirty years have passed since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin – a moment that still reverberates through Israel’s history. As a journalist, I followed him closely, first as defense minister in the late 1980s and later…
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The Blogs: NO to Zohran Mamdani today | Yitzhak Irving Kalet
My blog has almost always concerned life here in Israel but I would like to make an exception this time and add my name to all those American Jews who have come out against the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of New York City. I was…
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The Blogs: The Psychology of the Scapegoat: Jews and Kurds | Ab Boskany
Part Two: Legitimacy and Recognition in a Fragmented Age
Psychology and politics meet precisely at this junction. Projection, displacement and coalition formation all provide inner fuel. Legitimacy and recognition supply the outer casing. The…
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The Blogs: How the Jerusalem Temple, And Its Older Brother the Ka’ba, Fit Together | Allen S. Maller
The Jerusalem Temple (Beit HaMikdosh) and the Ka’ba, the House of God (Baitullah) in Mecca are the two most well-known sites for monotheistic pilgrimage in the world.
The Islamic Hajj to the Ka’ba in Makka, and the Jewish Hajj to the…
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The Blogs: 30 Years After Rabin’s Assassination – What’s the lesson learned? | Hillel Schenker
On November 4th, 1995, I was one of the 100,000 people in Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv, who were inspired by Yitzhak Rabin’s last speech before he walked down the stairs to meet Yigal Amir’s three shots that changed everything. At…
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The Blogs: Haftarat Parshat Vayera: Loyalty to God and Family | Kenneth Brander
The dramatic and emotionally powerful haftara of Parshat Vayera tells the story of a barren Shunamite woman who performs the kindness of welcoming the prophet Elisha into her home. When Elisha asks how he might repay her, his servant Gechazi…
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The Blogs: Ethiopian Jews ask: Where are the Religious Zionists? | Joseph J. Feit
Recently, Israeli media reported that the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration is being restructured as a growth engine for the State of Israel. The ministry’s director general, Avichai Kahana, was quoted as justifying the reorientation of…
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The Blogs: Thirty Years Later: “My Country Is Gone” – A Prophetic Sentence in Retrospect | Shimon Sheves
I said, thirty years ago, “My country is gone.” In retrospect, it was a prophetic sentence.
That terrible night I will never forget. I was among the first to arrive at the hospital. I rushed there and entered right after the stretcher,…
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The Blogs: Zohran Mamdani Scares Me and Maybe thats the Point | Rebecca Schiller
It seems like everyone is talking about Zohran Mamdani.
At lunch, my Israeli colleagues mention him between bites of schnitzel. Friends in New York call me saying they’re making aliyah or moving to Florida if he wins. He’s on Fox News,…
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