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After renewed objections from Jewish groups, the U.S. Coast Guard again removed language referencing a proposed policy that would have stopped classifying swastikas as hate symbols.

The retraction late Thursday, the second…

Almost every current proposal for Gaza’s future suffers from the same fatal flaw:
It assumes Hamas can be wished away, negotiated away, or sidelined—without first changing the facts on the ground. That’s why we’re stuck. On one side,…

What a 1969 film about fascism reveals about modern campuses and Jewish self-determination

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie remains disturbingly relevant more than half a century after its release—not because it depicts fascism, but because it…

What happens when reality tells you something you cannot bear to accept? The Torah gives us two striking examples — Jacob and Korach — both refusing to accept reality, but for very different reasons and with very different outcomes.

If…

Hey everyone. I’m Noam Weissman. And this is Unpacking Israeli History, the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense, historically fascinating and often misunderstood events and stories linked to Israeli history. If…

This was the closest I’ve ever gotten to seeing my family alive…

My grandparents are Holocaust survivors. In 1938, my grandfather fled Czechoslovakia during Hitler’s rise to power, leaving behind his parents, sisters, and younger…

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Service Now, the California based software company that supplies a cloud computing platform for the creation and management of automated business workflows, yesterday entered into an agreement to acquire the Israeli cyber company Armis for…

The recent article “The War Both Morocco and Algeria Fear to Win” presents a provocative argument: that the Polisario Front survives because both Morocco and Algeria need the conflict to justify their political systems.

As a Sahrawi who…

Regimes do not change in a single day. They erode—clause by clause, law by law—until the public grows accustomed to it. The disaster of October 7 was only the climax of a long process of rule by fear, incitement, and evasion of…