Sometimes, in the day-to-day grind of life, little things can really throw us off. Like many of us, I like control and can “easily sweat the small stuff” when things don’t go as planned. Yesterday, I had one of those moments when a ride that…
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Leaning Into Life
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The Woke Right’s Hypocrisy on Display: Outrage at Two Churches, Silence on 500
Tucker Carlson and Ana Kasparian accused Israel of intentionally targeting two Christian churches in Gaza and Taybeh. An errant tank shell struck and damaged the roof of the Holy Family Church in Gaza, while in Taybeh a purported “arson”…
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The ‘Make Aliyah’ Cruelty
Posting about antisemitic events or concerns on social media, which has become an unfortunately common occurrence, isn’t meant to spread fear or worry. It is to raise awareness of the situation, let people speak out against it, and be there for…
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Entering the Public Arena: What I Learned from Mayor Eli Abutbul about Israeli Leadership
Last week, I walked into the mayor’s office expecting a simple meeting. Instead, I stepped into a master class in leadership. For the past year, I have been quietly working to understand the deeper architecture of Israeli public life — not…
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‘Things I’ve Learned from the War – about Myself, about the World’
“Things That Have Changed in Me.” By Leah Waldman Gelband Once the Nameless One’s neighbor, Leah Waldman Gelband gives a beautifully vulnerable witness testament to her lived experience with war in Israel. Through writing, Waldman Gelband…
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Résumé vs. Eulogy Virtues: What Really Counts in the End
Not long ago, I sat in a room remembering my friend Hortencia Manzano Mammen, who we lost far too soon after multiple health challenges. She was only 59. We met in 2020 while her husband was volunteering for the presidential campaign. We would…
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Priority Failure: How North Africa’s Comma War Fuels the Sahel’s Collapse
The long-standing rivalry between the two great powers of the Maghreb, Morocco and Algeria, has reached a point of profound strategic absurdity. While an existential security crisis—the geopolitical collapse of the Sahel—threatens to engulf…
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Gatekeeper of the Territories
Gatekeeper of the Territories: Israel’s COGAT and the Daily Lives of Palestinians COGAT will play an essential role in the areas of Gaza, which will remain under Israeli control after a peace agreement is reached in Gaza. In the West Bank and…
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Let mainstream Orthodox Jews incorporate the Sigd holiday from Ethiopian Judaism
Fifty days after Yom Kippur, this year falls on November 20, 2025 Here we have it, an eloquent, written, English description of the ins and outs of the Sigd Holiday. Let me summarize with additions: ● Origin: The Book of Nehemiah, Chapter 9,…
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Growing Forward
On October 7, 2023, the western side of the kibbutz — the neighborhood where our young adults lived — suffered the heaviest blows. If you look back through my posts, you’ll see photos of what once stood near the western fence facing Gaza: the…
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