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A few days ago, I had a long, honest conversation with a childhood friend about G-d. Not the textbook version, but the real questions: Is G-d a force? A being? Can we still believe in Him today? This short essay is my attempt to put those…

Partnering With Trump Means the Whole Package — Not Just the Parts You Like

If there’s one lesson Israelis keep learning in alliance politics, it’s this: you never get a leader “à la carte.” You get the bundle. With President…

Last week, British police banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending a football (soccer) match “for their own safety.” To some, that might sound abundantly cautious, but to me, it sounds like history clearing its throat. Every Jewish…

Sorry, but I couldn’t resist picking up on Smotrich’s message to the Saudis to ride their camels.

There was probably no need for MKs to push through a bill now about annexation.

Much land on the West Bank is now settled, and it is…

Yesterday, President Donald Trump warned that if Israel were to establish sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria—commonly called the West Bank—”Israel would lose all of its support from the United States.”

(Israel would lose…

What was the Tower of Babel?

According to Rashi, the Tower of Babel was a weapon built by the collective to wage war against God:

And one speech (11:1) — They came with one plan, saying: “He has no right to select the heavenly regions…

How do people define “news”? That seems to be simple: what someone recently did or said. What we tend to forget (or not realize) is that the news can be heavily affected by what is not said or done. Here are three current Israeli news…

Every night in the Hashkivenu Bracha, we ask God to spread his Sukkah of peace over us: וּפְרוֹשׂ עָלֵֽינוּ סֻכַּת שְׁלוֹמֶךָ.

What do you imagine, when you say these words? Do you imagine a Sukkah over you?…

After Amer Ghalib became the most prominent Muslim politician in the country to endorse Donald Trump for president last year, he did so on pro-Palestinian grounds. And he was rewarded with a plum position: the…

How does a new thing begin? By what means does order emerge from the void? To read the beginning of the book of Genesis, it seems a matter of divine will, God’s decision to speak and say, “let light be.” But perhaps there is something…