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When a global giant like Hapag-Lloyd signs a $4.2 billion agreement to acquire the Israeli carrier ZIM, it sounds like a standard headline from the age of hyper-globalization. Companies merge, capital flows, and markets expand, or so the…

In the award-winning Israeli film The Women’s Balcony (2016), a charismatic rabbi, Rav Dovid (Aviv Alush), comes to rebuild a collapsed synagogue. However, Rav Dovid also uses his influence to restrict the ability of the women to…

In wartime Israel needs focus, not courtroom theater – a moment for mercy, resilience, and national renewal.

About a year ago, I wrote a column with a simple plea: Let Bibi lead.

At the time, Israel was already navigating one of the most…

Here we are again. Missiles from Lebanon, sirens over the Galilee, damage reports, funerals, and the familiar Israeli reflex: strike back, degrade, contain. Repeat in two years.

For seventeen years, Netanyahu’s right-wing governments have…

As missiles fly all over the Middle East, we Israelis should be asking ourselves: are we prepared to risk our fighters, economy and children’s future to help free Iran’s citizens from tyranny once that country’s military targets are…

69 — Holy Hardware,  Stoneware and Halachic Hacks

Our Gemara on Amud Beis notes that certain vessels made out of dung, earth, and stone are not susceptible to ritual impurity.

Impurity equals death and traumatic lack of connection to the…

“That is the land of lost content,

I see it shining plain,

The happy highways where I went

And cannot come again.”

 – A.E. Housman, “Into my heart an air that kills”

Headline after headline, headlines about the Middle East have…

Seeing my portrait placed on the wall of past presidents and chairpersons made me pause. Leadership roles eventually pass, titles move on, and the urgency of the moment fades. The real question is not what we accomplished while we held the…

The moment Israel and the United States struck Iranian targets on February 28, the world experienced a remarkable legal awakening. International law, long missing during missile buildups, proxy wars, and calls for national annihilation,…

There’s something uniquely insulting about a phone quietly pointing out that you’ve been moving less. Not louder. Not dramatic. No blaring alarm like an imminent Ballistic missile attach.

Just a calm little Apple Health trend notification…