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Who is AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby, supporting in this week’s Illinois congressional primaries? Not the Jewish candidates, or the most traditionally pro-Israel one — but it made a last-minute spend on a candidate who…

We live in a world of fake news, biased journalism, agenda-based research, and ideologically grounded actions. Society is shaped by disinformation; factual history is impacted by communal memory; the actual cultural, religious, and…

Rise in Antisemitism Cases and Hate Speech on the Agenda

Representatives of the Jewish community met on Friday, March 13, with Francisco Eduardo Loureiro, president of the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJSP), at the Palace of Justice to…

Every week, I meet Israeli business owners who tell me the same thing: “I know I should automate, but I’m too busy to set it up.”

The irony is brutal. They’re too busy doing the very tasks that automation would eliminate.

After…

The Silent Threat

Israel’s leaders are naturally fixated on the war against Iran and Hezbollah’s missiles from Lebanon, but the threat that could ultimately prove most dangerous to their country is the loss of the one ally that has…

The disrespectful treatment of Rabbi Saul Berman at the Smol Emuni conference in New York highlights many problems that were part of the conference, most glaringly, that it was neither “Smol” (left-wing) nor “Emuni.” While there is a…

For reasons I cannot explain, the last few days have been filled with conversations about bad questions.  Yes, there is such a thing.  And it’s an actual problem in a world overflowing with opinions, ideas, suggestions, critiques, and so…

The news of Shoshana Strouk’s death has stayed with me since I heard about it in a way that is difficult to shake. When something like this happens, the public conversation quickly becomes loud. People begin debating the facts, choosing…

When I think about this war, my memory is exact. I remember every moment, every detail before I walked calmly into the safe room and pulled the heavy door firmly closed.

I had been sitting in my husband’s armchair at the head of the table,…