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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict came between us — but it was never the whole story.
Is anything we experience today unprecedented? Should we be surprised by the obvious rise in antisemitism? Is that really new?
While Israeli analysts debate whether there’s a rift with the United States, the real story is more complex. There’s no rupture, but there is recalibration.
The aftermath of this unprecedented massacre was an important reminder that Judaism isn’t just a religion; it’s a revolution of the spirit.
Welcome to the year 2025, where spiritual leaders help fund terrorists and European bureaucrats hallucinate Israeli Club Meds in the rubble of Hamas bunkers.
Progressive Jews often insist on assessing Judaism through the lens of progressivism, but the reverse could save progressivism from itself.
Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, there was British Guiana: a Jewish homeland in South America that never happened.
The actual "occupation" is of facts, morals, and logic.
When we bother to notice Jews on the Right as well as the Left, throughout history and across the globe, then antisemitic grand theories fall apart.
Various datasets explain why so many young people despise Jews — and what it says about all of us.
Zionism without Judaism is empty, while Judaism without Zionism is crippled.
I've long wrestled with my doubt in God. But especially after October 7th, I’ve come to believe that, even if I’m unsure about Him, I completely believe in His people.
When even the great institutions of the UK are more likely to be standing against British Jews than standing alongside them, is it just time for me to pack up and leave?
“Iran is at its most vulnerable that it’s been in 45 years.”
“Judaism is a living protest against the herd instinct. Ours is the dissenting voice in the conversation of humankind.”
The theme that Jews are causing antisemitism by standing up against it continues.
The Druze are the most loyal minority in the Middle East, and Israel is the country that protects them.
Jews don’t have to be ideological hostages.
Muslim antisemites and their collaborators hijack sympathy as yet another excuse to smear and hate on Jews.
And if you’re Jewish, you’re living a miracle. You weren’t supposed to make it this far.