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The world celebrates today. Balloons rise, prayers are answered, and families embrace. The last Israeli hostages are home. Across continents, people rejoice at what feels like a triumph of humanity—the return of the stolen, the healing of…

A lot of people seem to have difficulty holding these two concepts in their minds at the same time, as if one negates the other. They don’t, and it can be demoralizing to believe that one is more “real” than the other, or that if you…

The notion of a looming multi-trillion shadow banking collapse may sound sensational, but it reflects a very real and underappreciated vulnerability in today’s global financial architecture. Across China, the U.S., and Europe, trillions of…

Inappropriate as it was, President Trump’s off-script call on President Herzog to pardon Netanyahu, like so much about Trump, contained a kernel of possibility buried beneath the provocation.

To be sure, the idea pardoning Bibi is anathema…

Hope kept the fire alive in our hearts.

When the world went silent, the lions roared.

For two long and dreadful years, our people fought –

some in uniform,

and for the rest of us, in the only ways we could:

through voices, vigils, art, and…

Today, my heart swells with relief, gratitude, and a profound sense of hope. After years of darkness, fear, and uncertainty, 20 souls—our brothers and sisters—have finally returned to the embrace of their families and communities. I know,…

I spent the morning with hundreds of others at the hostage tent on Aza Street near the Prime Minister’s house watching on a large screen as the live hostages were released. It was two and a half hours of anxiousness, relief, and elation. I…

A Reflection on Redemption and Unity

Parshat Miketz, tells the story of Yosef — a man who was taken from the pit, shaved, and brought before Pharaoh after two years of unjust imprisonment. In a moment that could have been lifted straight…

Today, Monday, October 13, 2025, Hamas, a bunch of deluded, splenetic terrorist psychopaths of the Gaza Strip, released 20 living kidnapped Israelis to demonstrate that the future belongs to them rather than to a civilised nation like…

Israel has seen its share of visiting dignitaries at the Knesset—most of them armed with platitudes, few with courage. Donald J. Trump arrived with neither notes nor hesitation. The U.S. president, unmistakably himself, took the podium in…