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In July, I wrote an Opinion piece calling on the government to honor its election pledge to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), whose generals have called for “an apocalyptic war on Jews.”

Now, in the aftermath of the…

We Israelis and Palestinians are waking up to the first morning in two years when we can allow ourselves to smile. In the coming days, as we see Israeli hostages coming home, we Israelis will be filled with tears of joy as we watch the freed…

Every so often, foreign policy throws a country into a tight corner. For Israel, that corner lies somewhere between Washington and Beijing. The rivalry between the United States and China is no longer a distant power struggle. It is reshaping…

Recently, Esther Kustanowitz, a journalist and educator I admire, and I had a robust discussion about words — how the choices we make in using them shape not only the stories we tell, but the reality we see.

I come by my love of language…

When “Peace” Means War: The Hidden Danger Behind Hamas’s Response to the Gaza Deal

A single day after talk of reviving the Trump Gaza deal began circulating, Hamas supporters flooded Gaza’s streets and online channels with flyers…

In 1941, September 26 was a Friday—as it was this year, 2025. On that day, the New-York based Jewish telegraphic agency reported this news from the Warsaw ghetto:

“Sympathy with the Jews in Nazi-held Poland was demonstrated this Rosh…

The recent possibility of a peace deal between Hamas and Israel which was negotiated in fragments, stalled in suspicion, and burdened with unhealed wounds demarks a critical moment not only in diplomacy but in the moral and legal architecture…

A desire to visit Israel this Fall turned to disappointment when I saw the airfares for non-stop flights from New York. Prices were outrageous at double or triple what we normally would expect.  We generally try and avoid layovers as not…

When we look back at the colonial and revolutionary period of American history, we often imagine its leaders as men of exceptional moral clarity — ministers who shepherded their congregations, and the signers of the Declaration of…

The evening air of Yerushalayim shimmered softly as I stood on our balcony, welcoming our guests. We had gathered in honor of our grand nephew Michael’s Bar Mitzvah, sixty family members from near and far, all enveloped by that familiar…