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Secularism: Soviet and Left Wing Anti-Zionism
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Tuesday, April 29 12:00 PM ET Live on Zoom For more than 3,000 years, Jerusalem has been the beating heart of the Jewish people. The connection between Jews and Jerusalem stretches back to the Heb...
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Perhaps giving banned terrorist groups legal rights was a mistake.
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It goes back to Genesis.
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Jewishness has been the hinge of his fiction, if not the whole door.
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More reliable than terror proxies.
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And what it tells us about the lives of ordinary Jews.
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All struggles are related . . . to the Jews.
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In the 1860s, a British explorer discovered the City of David. Fifteen years ago, the Palestinian Authority tried to stop those who wanted to follow in his footsteps.
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When America showed its willingness to use force.
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Today, it is not uncommon for daily activities to be mediated through data-gathering screens: when you are putting gas in your car at the gas station, the screen prompts you to respond to a survey, as...
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Arab regimes fear Al Jazeera’s power over their populations.
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I agreed with almost every word of Shany Mor’s essay , which was characteristically insightful and enlightening. Nevertheless, I think it suffered from a fatal flaw, because it is pointless to blame...
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The Jewish world is dynamic and diverse, and prayers, ceremonies, foods, and other traditions often diverge radically between different Jewish groups. In his feature essay this month, Rabbi Meir Sol...
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Why did Israel’s intelligence agencies fail to prepare for the attacks of October 7? Why were warnings ignored? Why didn’t the defensive measures in place work? Could the IDF have responded more quick...
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Why am I, a British Muslim, writing these words for an influential American Jewish magazine? I am convinced that our destinies are interwoven with ideas that, as of last week, gave birth to the new pe...
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In Israel, Ethiopians count for a disproportionately high number of war deaths.
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If negotiations continue along the current trajectory, the ayatollahs will have the bomb and Israel’s hands will be tied.
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A recent incident in Gaza proves the opposite of what Israel’s detractors believe.
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And why repentance provides no out.
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By abandoning learning in favor of activism, America’s colleges have forfeited their purpose.
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A visit to the fever swamps.
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It’s already gotten important concessions from the U.S.
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Ivan Karamazov in Gaza.
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“Is it any wonder that I sometimes think Passover was created for my sake?”
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We are deeply grateful to Miriam Krupka and Christine Rosen for their thoughtful responses. One a teacher on the frontlines of the ed-tech debate, the other a philosopher of technology, both Krupka an...
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Elon Musk is no role model.
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“Hamas’s cruelty over the past eighteen months is merely the culmination of eighteen years of its brutal rule.”
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Some background to the current controversy.
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The golem of Rehovot and its descendants.
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I would like to thank Evelyn Gordon, Robert Satloff, and Calev Ben-Dor for their thoughtful and perceptive responses to my essay on the diplomatic costs of Israeli territorial concessions. Below, I’ll...
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The October 7 attack from Gaza was not supposed to have been possible. Israelis were continuously assured by the security establishment and political leaders that Hamas was “deterred, that Israel h...
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The director fails to understand what the world after the Nazis was like for those who miraculously survived.
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The dangers of negotiation-mania over Palestinian statehood and Iranian nuclear weapons.
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Rabbi Soloveichik explores Amos's prophetic cry against Israel's immorality, linked to a garment, through the penitential poem Eleh Ezkerah.
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Ran Baratz’s sharp critique of Israeli retaliatory action following October 7, coupled with incisive and constructive correctives, is a shared worry outside of Israel. Why, he asks, was the IDF surp...
