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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…

A Call to Action – and the Story Behind “My Faith Through 10 Moments”: Faith, Resilience, and (Let’s Be Honest) Plain Stubbornness

I have been blogging for years, but a published book never seriously got further than many pages of false…

On this final day of Chanukah, it’s worth asking – what have we actually been celebrating for the last 8 days?

Yes, we know: nes gadol hayah sham.

But what was the nes, exactly?

Was the nes the military victory of the Maccabees? No doubt,…

It is difficult to put into words the enormity of the massacre at Bondi Beach for Australian Jews and Australians in general. It has been compared to October 7. That analogy is apt in terms of the proportion of Australian Jews who were…

Parashat Vayigash is often remembered for its climax: Joseph revealing himself to his brothers. But the parashah is not primarily about revelation. It is about what comes after survival.

Joseph says the words that change everything: