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Sukkot is called Z’man Simchateinu — “the time of our joy.” It is meant to be a season of gratitude, community, and faith, when families gather under temporary huts to remember both life’s fragility and its blessings. Yet this year,…

Prophesy is a risky business, especially in the Middle East——-always has been, always will be.

It’s also highly risky to depend on the whims and moods and visions of Donald Trump. He believes he can generate alternative realities. In a…

It’s been two years.  Two excruciating years since that barbaric day that most of the world seems to have forgotten.  Or ignored.  Or at least minimized. But these words aren’t meant to persuade, I write on this October 7 to clear my…

Fairy tales are full of wolves who never break the door down by force. Instead, they whisper, cajole, disguise themselves, and coax their prey into stepping outside on their own. It is a story about deception—about tricking the vulnerable…

A coalition of Christian organizations on Tuesday held a pro-Israel march across Nairobi’s Central Business District under the theme “Marching for Israel,” expressing solidarity with the people of Israel.

The march commemorated the…

I live outside of Israel, and my children are safe.

For two years, I have listened and watched and prayed and cried

For Hersh and for Ori and for Eli and for Alon and…

For the named and nameless who have given and lost so much.

I went to…

A week before the Jewish New Year, on September 16, 2025, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published its Global Innovation Index 2025 (GII 2025). This is the 18th edition of the Index, which this year covers 139 economies,…

Moral Clarity Demands That We Rise Above the Moment and Act

It’s been two years since the world stopped turning on its axis. Everything froze, everything changed, and nothing will ever be the same — not just for Israel, but for Jews and…

Holding my breath, I have been waiting to write to you to acknowledge and memorialize this two-year anniversary of October 7th – now a proper noun/name of an event more than a date. And yet, that date happens every year, and we must…

October 7 was an ending and a new beginning. A day when barbarism broke through the walls of modernity and forced Jews everywhere to confront the fragility of our safety and the fragility of the world’s conscience. The atrocities were…