”CHAYYE SARAH”: Genesis 23:1 to 25:18. The Torah is a book of mysteries. Characters come, characters go, we learn a great deal about a few days in someone’s life and almost nothing about the rest; plot lines are left unfinished, subplots…
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Chayeh Sarah and Coming Home
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Western Sahara Shows Israel the Way
Morocco just showed the world something the Middle East rarely produces: a conflict-management model that major powers, the UN Security Council, and serious Western capitals can actually accept — and strategically work with. In Western Sahara,…
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Two Worlds, One Tragedy
In the wake of the return of the remains of Meny Godard, a 73-year-old Israeli who was mercilessly slain on October 7th, there is a deep truth that demands to be faced. The truth is that within this one tragedy — the war between Israel…
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Is This Tel Aviv? No It’s Jerusalem’s New Scene!
Something new yet reminiscent of the past is happening in Jerusalem. After years of clubs and bars closing for many reasons, mostly financial, four bold entrepreneurs, Moti Asaraf and Eyal Ashush Owners of HaSchena, Avitan Sela Owner of the…
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Parshas Toldos – And She Went To Receive Instructions
This week’s parsha is Toldos, and we once again encounter the fertility issues of our ancestors. This time, Rivka, after finally conceiving, is having a difficult time with her pregnancy. As a result, she does the normal thing any woman would do…
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‘Answering Antisemitism Hysteria’
The recent New York City mayoral election brought out another wave of what I categorize as “antisemitism hysteria.” In my view, Jews have an unhealthy obsession of searching for — and finding! —antisemitism. This obsession is not healthy…
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The $20 Billion Betrayal: Libya’s Elite Are Funding Global War with Stolen Gas
The sheer scale of the crime is staggering, almost unbelievable: an estimated $20 billion stolen from the Libyan people in just three years. To put that number into perspective, that colossal sum, lost to state-sanctioned fuel trafficking between…
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Gaza: Bodies on the altar of ideology
When we look closely at what we have called the Middle East cause, we find a truth that has been hidden from everyone. The Palestinian crisis was never a problem of lacking political opportunities so much as it was a crisis of miscalculation and…
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Partnerships That Protect, Educate, and Strengthen Our Jewish Community
When the Jewish Federation of Annapolis & the Chesapeake (JFedA-C) held its very first board meeting after our launch, we chose to speak with Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth. It wasn’t just a courtesy—it was a declaration of our top priority:…
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242 or 2-states: One led to peace treaties, the other to recurrent wars
The 242 UNSC resolution from November 1967 brought two peace treaties between Israel and its neighbors: the peace treaty with Egypt in 1979, and the peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. Since then, this path was abandoned in favor of an elusive…
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