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In what seemed like an attempt to will a State of Palestine into existence last week, a host of Western countries led by France announced their recognition of a Palestinian state at a UN summit convened by France and Saudi Arabia. The…

In a time when too many elected officials remain silent in the face of rising antisemitism, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas has once again proven that leadership is not about convenience, but about courage. With moral clarity, he has called…

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Does the Cohen Make the Cut?

Our Gemara on Amud Aleph discusses the requirement that a cohen stand when he performs the Avodah, and if not, the service is invalidated. Based on this, the Magen Avraham (beginning of Siman 48, OC) rules that…

Jew-Hatred as Global Currency Marks the West’s Intellectual Bankruptcy

Title deliberately adapted from George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945). In Orwell’s allegory, the pigs twisted the language of equality to mask tyranny.

I. The Pigs –…

Maher al-Assad was never a soldier. He was a gangster in uniform. As Bashar’s brother and head of Syria’s 4th Armored Division, he did not just fight—he looted. His troops manned checkpoints like mafia toll booths, shaking down…

The day before Erev Rosh Hashana, I visited Hostages Square. A feeling that I needed to be there before the holiday. Walking the path between the entrance to the new pavilion of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the space turned into Hostages…

The people worry me more

Yom Kippur is coming, and with it, G^d sealing our fate for the new year.

G^d

The nervousness about His judgment is totally misplaced. It’s a relic of idolatry and assimilation to norms we picked up in the Diaspora….

By Dr. Shmuel Legesse

In recent days, the United Nations has once again demanded an “immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza. The world calls for quiet—but often ignores the deeper truth: Israel is not fighting for…

In Part I of this mini-series, we discussed the rhyming words chil, zachil, and dachil all of which refer to the state of being scared and the physical effects of such a feeling. In this essay, we will treat the words ra’adah, ziyah, and…

I had just landed back in Israel from a business trip to Copenhagen. For a few days, I’d been away from the heaviness that hovers over this country, breathing in a different rhythm, almost forgetting the constant ache of our current…