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We are standing at the threshold of Chodesh Nissan, the month of our redemption. But let’s be honest—this year, the heart feels heavy. For over two years now, the sounds of war have become the background noise of our lives. What started…

The proverb “A friend in need is a friend indeed” is among the most enduring expressions in the English language. Its central claim is simple but demanding: the authenticity of a relationship is revealed not in comfort, but in adversity….

I can only wonder where a statistic quoted in the Jerusalem Post of 3/11/26 comes from: “Iran’s missile fire rate has collapsed by 92%.” This week in Kfar Saba we have hurried to our in-apartment shelter perhaps the most times since the…

Two Jews were attacked in California after being heard speaking Hebrew. A language that carries thousands of years of culture, prayer, family conversations, and memory suddenly became the reason for violence.

For many Jews, this story lands…

Each March 15, Lithuania asks the world to watch it honor rescuers of Jews.

That ceremony is supposed to project moral seriousness. It projects something else instead: a state that celebrates the righteous few while preserving the machinery…

When I first saw the news of an attack at Temple Israel in Michigan, I felt a familiar, sinking despair lodge itself in my throat. My father, one of the strongest, proudest Jews I know, had his Bar Mitzvah at the Tree of Life Synagogue….

The third season of Tehran treats viewers to the usual dose of thrills, spills and chills against the backdrop of Israel’s existential conflict with Iran.

It has been available on Apple TV in North America since January, but I belatedly…

Thirty-four years ago, I stood in the Moscow airport with my parents and two suitcases.

Just a few months earlier, the Soviet Union had collapsed. The country we were leaving was already disappearing, and the system that had shaped our lives…

By mid-March 2026, the Strait of Hormuz had stopped being merely a geographic chokepoint on the map of the Middle East. It had once again become a global nerve center — the place where disrupted shipping lanes can turn, almost overnight,…