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When Israel freed nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees this October, it marked one of the most significant prisoner exchanges since the conflict reignited in 2023. This release part of a complex deal involving 20 living and 28 deceased Israeli…

The so-called “phase one” of Trump’s peace plan is on its way to being completed. The twenty living hostages who remained in Hamas hands have finally been released, and, hopefully, the bodies of the 28 deceased will soon be returned to…

Before me, before us all, lay a seemingly endless number of strands—threads in a story whose page reads in a way that many thought impossible. I can’t recall how many times I’d confidently said, Hamas will never give up all the…

As a past subscriber, I read “Jewish Currents” Journal consistently. Listening to the “Zionism and Anti-Zionism” episode on your podcast, “On the Nose” motivated me to write this letter. I am neither an academic nor a public…

The Ceasefire Illusion and the Long Disease of Jewish Denial

There’s a moment every cancer patient dreads more than diagnosis itself — that fragile instant when the doctor says, “Stage One.” The words are meant to comfort: It’s…

As their last living hostages returned home from Gaza after two years of war, Israelis gave visiting President Donald Trump a hero’s welcome — and threw out some lofty comparisons.

“Mr. President, you stand before…

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I’ve never really liked Simchat Torah. Aside from the fact that I’m not much of a dancer, I’ve always felt that it “steals the thunder” from Shemini Atzeret. At least in Israel, where they co-exist within the same day (less so…

Is there a useful parallel between the heroics of Oskar Schindler and Donald J. Trump? In these joyous times, as we celebrate the release of the Israeli Gaza hostages, maybe we should pause to consider the comparison.

Oskar Schindler, made…

Last week, ‘Junts per Catalunya’—the same movement that once admired Israel as the model of a small, embattled nation fighting for survival—voted in Spain’s Congress for a total arms embargo on the Jewish state.

The betrayal took…