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“Release the hostages or keep Hamas in power?” That was the dilemma that has accompanied us over the past two years. Without hesitation, I would argue that bringing the hostages home is a far superior cause. First and foremost, it is…

The most striking fact about the ceasefire agreement is that while Hamas may have signed it, the terrorist organization did not set its terms. The return of all the hostages, the lifting of the siege on Gaza City, and the partial withdrawal…

As I write this, a cease fire between Israel and Hamas has been announced, and the world waits for the remaining hostages to finally return home. After two long years, the fighting may, at last, be coming to an end.

The war, however, is not…

“Anyone who imagines Gaza’s future as just another exercise in state-building is living in a fantasy,” says Emanuel Segre Amar. “The real fault line—the Middle East scholar contends—is not between Hamas and Israel, but between…

The mists of time have obscured the life of Souad Zaki, a largely forgotten Egyptian Jewish entertainer who achieved a measure of fame in her country and the Arab world during the 1940s. Egypt, A Love Story, a bitter-sweet documentary,…

In the closing months of 2025, financial markets find themselves suspended between exuberance and unease. Artificial intelligence, long hailed as the engine of a new industrial age, now dominates global stock valuations, reshaping not only…

I once heard a story about a rabbi in Jerusalem who devoted his life to building a new Hesder Yeshiva — a program that would bring young Jews from around the world to Israel to study Torah and serve in the IDF. It was a dream years in the…

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”— Peter Drucker

They came by boat. They came by wagon. They traversed oceans and jungles and deserts. They died by the hundreds before ever seeing their destination. By 1849 (hence…

Considering the crowd Steve Witkoff was addressing Saturday evening in Hostages Square, he should have known what mention of Netanyahu’s name would bring

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US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff greets relatives of hostages…

I never thought I would hold a protest banner several times a year in Tokyo. But here I am again, standing with the Indigenous people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. We stood in front of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs…