Last week, I walked into the mayor’s office expecting a simple meeting. Instead, I stepped into a master class in leadership. For the past year, I have been quietly working to understand the deeper architecture of Israeli public life — not…
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Entering the Public Arena: What I Learned from Mayor Eli Abutbul about Israeli Leadership
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‘Things I’ve Learned from the War – about Myself, about the World’
“Things That Have Changed in Me.” By Leah Waldman Gelband Once the Nameless One’s neighbor, Leah Waldman Gelband gives a beautifully vulnerable witness testament to her lived experience with war in Israel. Through writing, Waldman Gelband…
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Résumé vs. Eulogy Virtues: What Really Counts in the End
Not long ago, I sat in a room remembering my friend Hortencia Manzano Mammen, who we lost far too soon after multiple health challenges. She was only 59. We met in 2020 while her husband was volunteering for the presidential campaign. We would…
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Priority Failure: How North Africa’s Comma War Fuels the Sahel’s Collapse
The long-standing rivalry between the two great powers of the Maghreb, Morocco and Algeria, has reached a point of profound strategic absurdity. While an existential security crisis—the geopolitical collapse of the Sahel—threatens to engulf…
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Gatekeeper of the Territories
Gatekeeper of the Territories: Israel’s COGAT and the Daily Lives of Palestinians COGAT will play an essential role in the areas of Gaza, which will remain under Israeli control after a peace agreement is reached in Gaza. In the West Bank and…
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Let mainstream Orthodox Jews incorporate the Sigd holiday from Ethiopian Judaism
Fifty days after Yom Kippur, this year falls on November 20, 2025 Here we have it, an eloquent, written, English description of the ins and outs of the Sigd Holiday. Let me summarize with additions: ● Origin: The Book of Nehemiah, Chapter 9,…
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Growing Forward
On October 7, 2023, the western side of the kibbutz — the neighborhood where our young adults lived — suffered the heaviest blows. If you look back through my posts, you’ll see photos of what once stood near the western fence facing Gaza: the…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is feuding with Donald Trump. Could she win over Jewish Democrats?
As the U.S. House prepared this week to take a pivotal vote to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, one leading Jewish Democrat had words of praise for a prominent MAGA diehard who helped make the vote…
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Israeli defense firms return to French security exhibitions
39 Israeli companies are exhibiting this week at France’s Milipol homeland security event in Paris, “Al Jazeera” reports.
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The World Has Spoken: It’s Time to Take Care of Us
After I published “When Our Children Hide Their Stars, It’s Gone Too Far,” a few people reached out and asked, “What can we do?” The truth is, this moment demands much more than learning how to argue on social media or how to win…
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