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A year ago, a friend presented me with stories of small businesses in Israel affected by the October 7 attacks. There were so many—family-run cafés struggling to reopen, shops balancing daily operations with the aftermath of conflict,…

Most people assume peace fails because people don’t want it badly enough.
But the truth is more sobering—and more hopeful.

As Raphael Cohen-Almagor explains, peace between Israelis and Palestinians requires a rare convergence:
• An…

Despite recent criticism, Jewish philanthropy has largely been the envy of the philanthropic world. Indeed, for more than a century, Jewish giving has been amazingly successful, although its long-term future is uncertain given contradictory…

In the first century of the common era, a heathen queen converted to Judaism about the same time as an aristocratic Jew deserted his heritage; an acute crisis in Roman Judea would give both the opportunity to prove their priorities and…

In the aftermath of October 7, I began wearing a Jewish star. Not long after, I added dog tags calling for the return of the hostages and a small yellow pin.  Yet as a therapist, I never wanted my religion to play any role in the therapeutic…

There was a dinosaur called Anchiornis huxleyi, and it became famous 160 million years after it lived, because it had four wings but couldn’t fly, though likely it could glide, many paleontologists suspected. Yet the status of its aviation…

Trying to make dishonesty and opportunism work for those who don’t.

Shapiro said it so well: ‘The conservative movement is also in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and…

Antisemitism, in public life, is frequently approached as a security file rather than a moral inheritance. The headline offender is “radical Islam,” and the diagnosis is delivered with confidence. Yet a diagnosis that points only outward…

“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!”  Golda Meir

The Jewish people have been yearning to return…

A British emcee stopped a young couple at the Western Wall (Kotel) and asked how long they had been in Israel. Two weeks, they said, pushing a stroller, beaming in the November sun. He asked what it felt like. Their answer was simple. For the…