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I Dreamed an Oasis: A Vision Born from Despair

Like many Israelis, October 7, 2023, was my worst nightmare realized. The loss of 1,200 lives, the shattered kibbutzim, and the renewed cycle of violence broke me, as it did millions.

The recent…

When the Gaza strip becomes quiet, narratives grow louder. As the gunfire fall silent, the world’s attention turns not only to what has been destroyed—but to what comes next.

The ceasefire in Gaza, fragile as it is, offers Israel not only…

New York has always thrived on disagreement. Debate is part of its oxygen. But lately, the arguments feel darker—less about policy, more about identity. A growing number of New Yorkers whisper the same fear: that a new kind of politics has…

In Australia: A Court Protecting the Shout, Forgetting the Prayer

The New South Wales Supreme Court has struck down the state’s special ‘move-on’ powers for protests ‘in or near’ places of worship, declaring them an unjustified…

When I think about the people who shaped me, I think about Sylvia Wygoda.

She didn’t hold public office, cure an incurable disease, or win a Nobel Peace Prize. In fact, she never sought the spotlight at all. She spent her life telling the…

New York’s state Young Republicans organization has been disbanded in the wake of leaked group chats in which officials joked about gas chambers, praised Adolf Hitler and used racist, antisemitic and homophobic slurs. 

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Ruth Adler is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and creates in both Toronto and Tel Aviv. Working in painting, textile collage and video, her vibrant practice has been exhibited internationally since the 1980s.

Adler, currently in Toronto,…

I’m a progressive. I’m a Jew. And I’m appalled.

In New York City this week, a far-left group calling itself the Bronx Anti-War Coalition organized a so-called “vigil” to mark the one-year anniversary of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s…

The Torah famously opens not with the first mitzvah given to Israel but with a cosmic declaration:

“כֹּחַ מַעֲשָׂיו הִגִּיד לְעַמּוֹ, לָתֵת לָהֶם נַחֲלַת גּוֹיִם” (Psalms 111:6)

“He…

Christophe Lebold’s lyrical biography of the Canadian singer and literary figure, Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw The Angels Fall (ECW Press), is definitive in its comprehensiveness. The author, a professor of literature at the University of…