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JTA — In recent days, nearly 1,000 rabbis have signed “A Rabbinic Call to Action: Defending the Jewish Future.” The letter, written in response to rising anti-Zionism and the rhetoric of political figures like New York City mayoral…

Every day, my family waits impatiently for the worst phone call of our lives with regard to the fate of our son, Itay, and, in a cruel twist of irony, every day that we don’t get that call, we are disappointed.

That is the agonizing reality…

The area internationally known as the “West Bank,” but which Israelis prefer to call by its biblical name “Judea and Samaria,” is not merely a geographical territory. It is the core of the Jewish historical homeland, the place where…

The 176 names of Greek Gods and Goddess, and the 162 individual gods listed in the Egyptian pantheon of gods are actually few. Even the list of 249 Hindu Gods and Goddess names listed in the Hindu pantheon of gods and spirits is slender,…

This is the story of one soldier — my son Arky — whose experiences on his base near the Gaza border this past Yom Kippur were too vivid and unusual to go unrecorded.

I write them down here, so that the details — the moments that were so…

Only two American organizations hailed the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Zohran Mamdani has been closely affiliated with both groups. As an undergraduate…

To say that Guardian columnist, Polly Toynbee, single-handedly brought down Boris Johnson and his Conservative government in 2022 — by suggesting that leader and party be smeared and tarred with sleaze accusations — would, perhaps, be…

Over the past two years since the tragic events of October 7 and the war that followed, I’ve travelled to Israel seven times. The first was in November 2023, fifty days into the war, and the most recent in September 2025, 690 days in. Each…

It’s hard to keep track of what is happening. And it’s hard to figure out where it’s all heading. But there is reason to be optimistic.

Let’s start with Israel. Living hostages have been freed. Some bodies are still not returned….

Donald Trump, presumably in quest of his Nobel Peace Prize, decided to finally settle the Israel-Gaza War and, seemingly as add-ons, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the “Middle East conflict” as a whole.  This has necessarily…